Solid State Physics

David W. Snoke is a Professor at the University of Pittsburgh where he leads a research group studying quantum many-body effects in semiconductor systems. In 2007, his group was one of the first to observe Bose-Einstein condensation of polaritons. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

• 1. Electron bands; 2. Electronic quasiparticles; 3. Classical waves in anisotropic media; 4. Quantized waves; 5. Interactions of quasiparticles; 6. Group theory; 7. The complex susceptibility; 8. Many-body perturbation theory; 9. Coherence and correlation; 10. Spin and magnetic systems; 11. Spontaneous coherence in matter; Appendix A. Review of bra-ket notation; Appendix B. Review of Fourier series and Fourier transforms; Appendix C. Delta-function identities; Appendix D. Quantum single harmonic oscillator; Appendix E. Second-order perturbation theory; Appendix F. Relativistic derivation of spin physics.

'David W. Snoke is an experimental physicist with a deep understanding of solid state theory. His masterly distillation of the necessary mathematical ideas into understandable physics gained the first edition of this book an enthusiastic readership. This second edition preserves the readability while expanding the content to include some of the most up-to-date 'essential concepts'. A thorough study of the text will provide a new graduate student with a firm foundation for participating in the latest research.' Michael Stone, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign