Table of Contents

Mathematical Introduction; Acoustic Phonons; Plasmons, Optical Phonons, and Polarization Waves; Magnons; Fermion Fields and the Hartree-Fock Approximation; Many-body Techniques and the Electron Gas; Polarons and the Electron-phonon Interaction; Superconductivity; Bloch Functions - General Properties; Brillouin Zones and Crystal Symmetry; Dynamics of Electrons in a Magnetic Field: de Haas-van Alphen Effect and Cyclotron Resonance; Magnetoresistance; Calculation of Energy Bands and Fermi Surfaces; Semiconductor Crystals I: Energy Bands, Cyclotron Resonance, and Impurity States; Semiconductor Crystals II: Optical Absorption and Excitons; Electrodynamics of Metals; Acoustic Attenuation in Metals; Theory of Alloys; Correlation Functions and Neutron Diffraction by Crystals; Recoilless Emission; Green's Functions - Application to Solid State Physics; Appendix: Perturbation Theory and the Electron Gas; Index.