This 35 chapter, revised edition of Ashcroft and Mermin’s Solid State Physics (1976) maintains its predecessor’s style whilst covering novel developments in the field of solid state physics. Regarding electronic structure, density functional theory’s inclusion completes the description of the many-body electronic theory of crystals. The theory of harmonic crystal and superconductivity are similarly augmented. New chapters on semiconductor devices, piezoelectricity, applied magnetism, spintronics, and the Quantum Hall effect have been added. Various kinds of characterization methods of solids, including diffraction methods, are introduced in the beginning and the end chapters of the book. This book inherits the merit of the first edition, and endeavors to serve better all readers who are interested in solid state physics and related fundamentals in the physical science of high technology.

1. Crystalline Structure
2. Classfication of Bravais Lattices and Crystal Structures
3. The Reciprocal Lattice
4. Diffraction and Scattering in Crystal Structures
5. The Drude Theory of Metals
6. The Sommerfeld Theory of Metals
7. Electron Levels in a Periodic Potential: General Properties
8. Weak Potential Approximation and Tight-Binding Method
9. Beyond the Independent Electron Approximation
10. Other Methods for Calculating Band Structure
11. The Semiclassical Transport Theory
12. Measuring the Fermi Surface
13. Band Structure of Selected Metals
14. Classification of Solids and Cohesive Energy
15. Beyond the Relaxation-Time Approximation
16. Surface Effects
17. Classical Theory of the Harmonic Crystal
18. Quantum Theory of the Harmonic Crystal
19. Measuring Phonon Dispersion Relations
20. Anharmonic Effects in Crystals
21. Phonons in Metals
22. Traditional and High-Tc Superconductors
23. Theory of Superconductivity
24. Homogeneous Semiconductors
25. Inhomogeneous Semiconductors
26. Semiconductor Devices
27. Defects in Crystals
28. Dielectric and Optical Properties of Insulators
29. Ferroelectricity and Piezoelectricity
30. Diamagnetism and Paramagnetism
31. Electron Interactions and Magnetic Structure
32. Magnetic Ordering
33. Applied Magnetism and Spintronics
34. Landau Levels and Quantum Hall Effect
35 Characterization Methods of Solids by Probes

Appendices
A. Summary of Important Numerical Relations in the Free Electron Theory of Metals
B. The Chemical Potential
C. The Sommerfeld Expansion
D. Plane Wave Expansions of Periodic Functions in More Than One Dimension
E. The Velocity and Effective Mass of Bloch Electrons
F. Some Identities Related to Fourier Analysis of Periodic Systems
G. The Variational Principle for Schrodinger’s Equation
H. The Second Quantization in Many-Particle System
I. Hamiltonian Formulation of the Semiclassical Equations of Motion, and Liouville’s Theorem
J. Green’s Theorem for Periodic Functions

This 35 chapter, revised edition of Ashcroft and Mermin’s Solid State Physics (1976) maintains its predecessor’s style whilst covering novel developments in the field of solid state physics. Regarding electronic structure, density functional theory’s inclusion completes the description of the many-body electronic theory of crystals. The theory of harmonic crystal and superconductivity are similarly augmented. New chapters on semiconductor devices, piezoelectricity, applied magnetism, spintronics, and the Quantum Hall effect have been added. Various kinds of characterization methods of solids, including diffraction methods, are introduced in the beginning and the end chapters of the book. This book inherits the merit of the first edition, and endeavors to serve better all readers who are interested in solid state physics and related fundamentals in the physical science of high technology. Maintains the style of the first edition while covering the novel developments in the field of solid state physics making the text more relevant to instructors and students. Includes new chapters on semiconductor devices, piezoelectricity, applied magnetism, spintronics, and the Quantum Hall effect.