Table of Contents

AN OVERVIEW.- Basic Principles Summarized.- Basic Principles in Action.- A First Acquaintance with Condensed Matter.- TWO SIMPLE MODELS FOR SOLIDS.- The Jellium Model and Metals I: Equilibrium Properties.- The Jellium Model and Metals II: Response to External Perturbations.- Solids as Supergiant Molecules: LCAO.- Semiconductors and Other Tetravalent Solids.- Beyond the Jellium and the LCAO: An Outline.- MORE ABOUT PERIODICITY & ITS CONSEQUENCES.- Crystal Structure and Ionic Vibrations.- Electrons in Periodic Media. The Role of Magnetic Field.- Methods for Calculating the Band Structure.- Pseudopotentials in Action.- MATERIALS.- Simple Metals and Semiconductors Revisited.- Closed-Shell Solids.- Transition Metals and Compounds.- Artificial Periodic Structures.- DEVIATIONS FROM PERIODICITY.- Surfaces and Interfaces.- Disordered and Other Nonperiodic Solids.- Finite Systems.- CORRELATED SYSTEMS.- Magnetic Materials, I: Phenomenology.- Magnetic Materials II: Microscopic View.- Superconductivity, I: Phenomenology.- Superconductivity, II: Microscopic Theory.- APPENDICES.- Elements of Electrodynamics of Continuous Media.- Elements of Quantum Mechanics.- Elements of Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics.- Dielectric Function, : Formulas and Uses.- Waves in Continuous Elastic Media.- The Method LCAO Applied to Molecules.- Boltzmann’s Equation.- Tables.