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This textbook is designed for advanced undergraduate and early graduate students. It provides a comprehensive overview of key concepts in thermodynamics, statistical physics, solid state physics, condensed matter physics, phase transitions, and critical phenomena. Ideal for use in multiple courses within the field of condensed matter physics, this book offers a thorough review of the essential material typically covered in these courses. Unlike many textbooks that focus heavily on many-body techniques and complex diagrammatic methods, this book presents its content in a more accessible manner. It covers a broad range of topics, including some not usually addressed in introductory courses, while maintaining a technical level that is less intricate than traditional many-body texts. This book integrates graduate-level discussions with undergraduate material and simplifies advanced topics wherever possible. For students interested in exploring more challenging subjects, the book references additional textbooks and resources, enabling them to deepen their understanding of advanced concepts and methods.
Due to its comprehensive nature and associated size, the printed book is divided in two volumes but it is intended as a unit. The first volume comprises the first fourteen Chapters and the second volume comprises Chapters 15 to 25.
Volume 1
Preface.
Introduction to Macroscopic Systems.
Revision of Thermodynamics.
Microscopic Description.
Classical Statistical Physics.
Stochastic Processes.
Introduction to Transport Processes.
Quantum Statistical Physics.
Crystalline Structures.
Lattice Vibrations: Phonons.
Electronic Energy Bands.
Linear Response Theory.
Electromagnetic Response.
Effects of Magnetic Fields.
Microscopic Description of Interactive Quantum Systems.
Volume 2
Phase Transitions.
Quantum Magnetism.
Superconductivity.
Renormalization Group.
Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless Transition.
Quantum Phase Transitions.
Mappings and Dualities.
Nonhomogeneous Systems: Effects of Local States.
Nonhomogeneous Systems: Transport and Disorder.
One-Dimensional Systems.
Short Tour of Materials and Applications.
A Many-Body Systems and Second Quantization.
B Discrete Symmetries.
C Translation Operator in a Lattice.
D Non-Hermitian Hamiltonian.
E Spin Coherent States and Stereographic Projection.
Index