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Description of  Concepts in Solids: Lectures on the Theory of Solids (World Scientific Lecture Notes in Physics)

These lecture notes constitute a course on a number of central concepts of solid state physics classification of solids, band theory, the developments in one-electron band theory in the presence of perturbation, effective Hamiltonian theory, elementary excitations and the various types of collective elementary excitation (excitons, spin waves and phonons), the Fermi liquid, ferromagnetic spin waves, antiferromagnetic spin waves and the theory of broken symmetry. Read more