Based on lectures given at the University of Illinois in 1961, Elementary Excitations in Solids provides a pedagogical introduction to our present view of solids as a system of interacting electrons and ions, with excited states that are best described as a set of coupled elementary excitations, electrons, plasmons, excitons, and phonons. In addition to introducing basic concepts, the author frequently refers to experimental data. For the most part, both the basic theory and the applications discussed deal with the behavior of "simple" metals, such as the alkali metals, rather than the "complicated" metals, such as the transition metals and the rare earths. Problems have been included for most of the chapters.
Continues the series of inexpensive paper reprints of classic graduate-level texts and monographs with a collection of 1961 lectures by Pines (physics, U. of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign. Assumes at least a year's prior course in quantum mechanics, but no previous knowledge of field theory. The earlier editions appeared in 1966 and 1989. No index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
A classic treatment of solids as systems of interacting particles.
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David Pines' awards include the Eugene Feenberg Memorial Medal for Contributions to Many-Body Theory, the P.A.M Dirac Silver Medal for the Advancement of Theoretical Physics, and the Friemann Prize in Condensed Matter Physics.
Advanced Book Classics , Editors Foreword , Preface , Introductory
Survey , Phonons , Electrons and Plasmons , Electrons, Plasmons, and Photons
in Solids , Electron-Phonon Interaction in Metals , Second Quantization ,
Linear Response Functions; Kramers-Kronig Relations , The RPA Calculation of
the Ground-State Energy
David Pines is research professor of physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has made pioneering contributions to an understanding of many-body problems in condensed matter and nuclear physics, and to theoretical astrophysics. Editor of Perseus' Frontiers in Physics series and former editor of American Physical Society's Reviews of Modern Physics, Dr. Pines is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, a foreign member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Pines has received a number of awards, including the Eugene Feenberg Memorial Medal for Contributions to Many-Body Theory the P.A.M. Dirac Silver Medal for the Advancement of Theoretical Physics and the Friemann Prize in Condensed Matter Physics.
