"Quantum Physics of the Solid State: an Introduction" Draft foreword:
26/09/03 If only this book had been available when I was starting out
in science! It would have saved me countless hours of struggle in
trying to apply the general ideas of the standard solid-state
text-books to solve real problems. The fact is that most of the texts
stop at the point where the real difficulties begin. The great merit
of this book is that it describes in an honest and detailed way what
one really has to do in order to understand the multifarious
properties of solids in terms of the fundamental physical theory of
quantum mechanics. University students of the physical sciences are
taught about the fundamental the ories, and know that quantum
mechanics, together with relativity, is our basis for understanding
the physical world. But the practical difficulties of using quantum
mechanics to do anything useful are usually not very well explained.
The truth is that the application of quantum theory to achieve our
present detailed understand ing of solids has required the
development of a large array of mathematical tech niques. This is
closely analogous to the challenge faced long ago by theoretical
astronomers in trying to apply Newton's equations of motion to the
heavens -they too had to develop a battery of theoretical and
computational techniques to do cal culations that could be compared
with observation.
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ISBN
9781402021541
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2020
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Springer
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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