![]() This expansion makes it definitely a candidate for a contemporary class. An update to Patterson’s 1971 text, it adds a great deal of modern material, nearly doubling the size of the original. But the subjects covered are limited, with most of the content surprisingly centered on questions related to electronic-band structure.īeyond the texts mentioned above, one faces a dazzling array of choices, including Solid-State Physics: Introduction to the Theory by Patterson and Bernard Bailey. Even today, another distinctive possibility for a graduate text is Anderson’s book, because of the author’s unique insight. ![]() For most of us condensed-matter theorists, the first question asked when we consider a property is, “How do we estimate it?” But for Ibach and Lüth, the first question is, “How do we measure it?” That point of view suited my colleague Zhi-Xun Shen when we each taught part of a course at Stanford University: Shen used Ibach and Lüth’s text I used my own. But years later, Harald Ibach and Hans Lüth’s Solid-State Physics: An Introduction to Theory and Experiment (Springer-Verlag, 1991) offered a distinctive approach. The range of material and of approaches covered in the texts seems surprisingly similar. Press, 1964), my own Solid State Theory (McGraw-Hill, 1970), James Patterson’s Introduction to the Theory of Solid State Physics (Addison-Wesley, 1971), Ashcroft and Mermin’s text, and Otfried Madelung’s Introduction to Solid-State Theory (Springer-Verlag, 1978). ![]() Ziman’s Principles of the Theory of Solids (Cambridge U. Anderson’s Concepts in Solids: Lectures on the Theory of Solids (W. ![]() In the 1960s and 1970s, a flood of condensed-matter physics books appeared on the scene: Philip W. ![]()
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