Atomic and Electronic Structure of Solids, Kaxiras E, CUP 2003.pdf

Atomic and Electronic Structure of Solids
This text is a modern treatment of the theory of solids. The core of the book deals
with the physics of electron and phonon states in crystals and how they determine
the structure and properties of the solid.
The discussion uses the single-electron picture as a starting point and covers elec-
tronic and optical phenomena, ism and superconductivity. There is also an
extensive treatment of defects in solids, including point defects, dislocations, sur-
faces and interfaces. A number of modern topics where the theory of solids applies
are also explored, including quasicrystals, amorphous solids, polymers, metal
and semiconductor clusters, carbon nanotubes and biological macromolecules.
Numerous examples are presented in detail and each chapter is panied by
problems and suggested further readings. An extensive set of appendices provides
the necessary background for deriving all the results discussed in the main body of
the text.
The level of theoretical treatment is appropriate for first-year graduate students
of physics, chemistry and materials science and engineering, but the book will also
serve as a reference for scientists and researchers in these fields.
Efthimios Kaxiras received his PhD in theoretical physics at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, and worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the IBM T. J. Watson
Research Laboratory in Yorktown Heights. He joined Harvard University in 1991,
where he is currently a Professor of Physics and the Gordon McKay Professor
of Applied Physics. He has worked on theoretical modeling of the properties of
solids, including their surfaces and defects; he has published extensively in ref-
ereed journals, as well as several invited review articles and book chapters. He
has anized a number of scientific meetings and co-edited three volumes of
conference proceedings. He is a member of the American Physical Society, the
American Chemical Society, the Materials Resea