Now updated the leading single-volume introduction to solid state and soft condensed matter physics This Second Edition of the unified treatment of condensed matter physics keeps the best of the first, providing a basic foundation in the subject while addressing many recent discoveries. Comprehensive and authoritative, it consolidates the critical advances of the past fifty years, bringing together an exciting collection of new and classic topics, dozens of new figures, and new experimental data. This updated edition offers a thorough treatment of such basic topics as band theory, transport theory, and semiconductor physics, as well as more modern areas such as quasicrystals, dynamics of phase separation, granular materials, quantum dots, Berry phases, the quantum Hall effect, and Luttinger liquids. In addition to careful study of electron dynamics, electronics, and superconductivity, there is much material drawn from soft matter physics, including liquid crystals, polymers, and fluid dynamics. Provides frequent comparison of theory and experiment, both when they agree and when problems are still unsolved Incorporates many new images from experiments Provides end-of-chapter problems including computational exercises Includes more than fifty data tables and a detailed forty-page index Offers a solutions manual for instructors Featuring 370 figures and more than 1,000 recent and historically significant references, this volume serves as a valuable resource for graduate and undergraduate students in physics, physics professionals, engineers, applied mathematicians, materials scientists, and researchers in other fields who want to learn about the quantum and atomic underpinnings of materials science from a modern point of view.

Now updated--the leading single-volume introduction tosolid state and soft condensed matter physicsThis Second Edition of the unified treatment of condensedmatter physics keeps the best of the first, providing a basicfoundation in the subject while addressing many recent discoveries.Comprehensive and authoritative, it consolidates the criticaladvances of the past fifty years, bringing together an excitingcollection of new and classic topics, dozens of new figures, andnew experimental data.This updated edition offers a thorough treatment of such basictopics as band theory, transport theory, and semiconductor physicsas well as more modern areas such as quasicrystals, dynamics ofphase separation, granular materials, quantum dots, Berry phasesthe quantum Hall effect, and Luttinger liquids. In addition tocareful study of electron dynamics, electronics, andsuperconductivity, there is much material drawn from soft matterphysics, including liquid crystals, polymers, and fluiddynamics.* Provides frequent comparison of theory and experiment, both whenthey agree and when problems are still unsolved* Incorporates many new images from experiments* Provides end-of-chapter problems including computationalexercises* Includes more than fifty data tables and a detailed forty-pageindex* Offers a solutions manual for instructorsFeaturing 370 figures and more than 1,000 recent andhistorically significant references, this volume serves as avaluable resource for graduate and undergraduate students inphysics, physics professionals, engineers, applied mathematiciansmaterials scientists, and researchers in other fields who want tolearn about the quantum and atomic underpinnings of materialsscience from a modern point of view.