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Introduction to Solid State Physics
Second edition (1956)
Author Charles Kittel
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Subject
Publisher John Wiley and Sons
Publication date
1953 (1st ed.)
Pages
  • 396 (1st ed.)
  • 680 (8th ed.)
ISBN 978-1-119-45416-8
OCLC 787838554
530.4
LC ClassQC176.K5
Identifiers refer to the 8th edition of the book, printed in 2005, unless otherwise noted

Introduction to Solid State Physics, known colloquially as Kittel, is a classic condensed matter physics textbook written by American physicist Charles Kittel in 1953. [1] The book has been highly influential and has seen widespread adoption; Marvin L. Cohen remarked in 2019 that Kittel's content choices in the original edition played a large role in defining the field of solid-state physics. [2] It was also the first proper textbook covering this new field of physics. [3] The book is published by John Wiley and Sons and, as of 2018, it is in its ninth edition and has been reprinted many times as well as translated into over a dozen languages, including Chinese, French, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, and Turkish. In some later editions, the eighteenth chapter, titled Nanostructures, was written by Paul McEuen. Along with its rival Ashcroft and Mermin, the book is considered a standard textbook in condensed matter physics.

Background

Kittel received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1941 under his advisor Gregory Breit. [4] Before being promoted to professor of physics at UC Berkeley in 1951, Kittel held several other positions. He worked for the Naval Ordnance Laboratory from 1940 to 1942, was a research physicist in the US Navy until 1945, worked at the Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT from 1945 to 1947 and at Bell Labs from 1947 to 1951, and was a visiting associate professor at UC Berkeley from 1950 until his promotion. [4]

Henry Ehrenreich has noted that before the first edition of Introduction to Solid State Physics came out in 1953, there were no other textbooks on the subject; rather, the young field's study material was spread across several prominent articles and treatises. [3] The field of solid state physics was very new at the time of writing and was defined by only a few treatises that, in the Ehrenreich's view, expounded rather than explained the topics and were not suitable as textbooks. [3]

Content

The book covers a wide range of topics in solid state physics, including Bloch's theorem, crystals, magnetism, phonons, Fermi gases, magnetic resonance, and surface physics. The chapters are broken into sections that highlight the topics. [5]

Table of contents (8th ed.)
Chapter Title Topics [5]
1 Crystal Structure Crystal structure
2 Wave Diffraction and the Reciprocal Lattice diffraction, Bragg Law, Fourier analysis, reciprocal lattice vectors, Laue equations, Brillouin zone, atomic form factor
3 Crystal Binding and Elastic Constants Van der Waals force, Ionic crystals, covalent crystals, metals
4 Phonons I. Crystal Vibrations phonons
5 Phonons II. Thermal Properties phonons
6 Free Electron Fermi Gas Fermi gas, free electron model
7 Energy Bands nearly free electron model, Bloch's theorem, Kronig-Penney model, crystal momentum
8 Semiconductor Crystals band gap, electron holes, semimetals, superlattices
9 Fermi Surfaces and Metals Fermi surfaces
10 Superconductivity superconductivity, BCS theory, superconductors
11 Diamagnetism and Paramagnetism diamagnetism and paramagnetism
12 Ferromagnetism and Antiferromagnetism ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism
13 Magnetic Resonance magnetic resonance
14 Plasmons, Polaritons, and Polarons plasmons, polaritons, polarons
15 Optical Processes and Excitons excitons, Kramers-Kronig relations
16 Dielectrics And Ferroelectrics Maxwell equations in matter
17 Surface and Interface Physics surface physics
18 Nanostructures (by Paul McEuen) electron microscopy, optical microscopy
19 Noncrystalline Solids glasses
20 Point Defects lattice defects
21 Dislocations shear strength of crystals, dislocations, hardness of materials
22 Alloys Hume-Rothery rules, electrical conductivity, Kondo effect

Reception

Marvin L. Cohen and Morrel H. Cohen, in an obituary for Kittel in 2019, remarked that the original book "was not only the dominant text for teaching in the field, it was on the bookshelf of researchers in academia and industry throughout the world", [4] though they did not provide any time frame on when it may have been surpassed as the dominant text. They also noted that Kittel's content choices played a large role in defining the field of solid-state physics. [4]

The book is a classic textbook in the subject and has seen use as a comparative benchmark in the reviews of other books in condensed matter physics. [1] [3] In a 1969 review of another book, Robert G. Chambers noted that there were not many textbooks covering these topics, as "since 1953, Kittel's classic Introduction to Solid State Physics has dominated the field so effectively that few competitors have appeared", noting that the third edition continues that legacy. Before continuing, the reviewer noted that the book was too long for some uses and that less thorough works would be welcome. [1]

Publication history

Original editions

Reprints

Foreign translations

Language Title Translators Year Publisher Location Identifiers
Spanish Introduccion a la física del estado sólido (in Spanish). 1965 Reverte Barcelona OCLC  1097704401
Hungarian Bevezetés a szilárdtestfizikába (in Hungarian). Ferenc Kedves 1966 Műszaki Kiadó Budapest OCLC  895275633
Arabic al-Mabādiʼ al-asasiyah fi fizyāʼ al-jawāmid (in Arabic). Mahmūd Mukhtār 1968 Maktabat al-Nahdah al-Misriyah nushir haḍa al-kitạb maʻah muassasat Frankilīn ; Mūassasat Frankilīn al-Qāhirah; al-Qāhirah; New York OCLC  18156712
Japanese 固体物理学入門. 上 上 (in Japanese). 良清 宇野 1968 丸善 Tokyo OCLC  673599602
Romanian Introducere în fizica corpului solid (in Romanian). Anatolie Hristev; Cornelia C. Rusu 1972 Editura Tehnică Bucureşti OCLC  895553854
French Introduction à la physique de l'état solide (in French) (3rd ed.). Alain Honnart 1972 Dunod Paris OCLC  25192813
ISBN  978-2-04-005248-5
Japanese 固体物理学入門. 上 上 (in Japanese). 1974 丸善 Tokyo OCLC  33543405
Russian Vvedenie v fiziku tverdogo tela (in Russian). A. A Gusev 1978 "Nauka", Glav. red. fiziko-matematicheskoĭ lit-ry Moskva OCLC  22540726
Japanese 固体物理学入門. 上 (in Japanese). Ryōsei Uno 1978 丸善 Tōkyō OCLC  47405134
Modern Greek Eisagōgē stē physikē stereas katastaseōs (in Greek) (5th ed.). C. Papageorgopoulos 1976 G. Pneumatikou Athēna OCLC  21774626
Chinese 固態物理學概論 / Gu tai wu li xue gai lun (in Chinese). 翁上林 1979 臺北市徐氏基金會 臺北市 OCLC  681443056
Spanish Introduccion a la física del estado sólido (in Spanish) (2 ed.). Serna Alcaraz, J., Serna Alcaraz, C. R., Piqueras de Noriega, J. 1981 Reverté Barcelona OCLC  46327300
ISBN  978-84-291-4075-0
Czech Úvod do fyziky pevných látek: celost. vysokošk. učebnice pro stud. matematicko-fyz. a přírodověd. fakult (in Czech). Miloš Matyáš 1985 Academia Praha OCLC  39420310
Japanese Kotai butsurigaku nyūmon (in Japanese). Uno, Ryōsei., 宇野, 良清 1988 丸善 OCLC  673243413
ISBN  978-4-621-03250-3
Malay Pengenalan fizik keadaan pepejal (in Malay). Khiruddin Abdullah; Karsono Ahmad Dasuki 1995 Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia Pulau Pinang OCLC  850076803
ISBN  978-983-861-100-8
Korean 고체물리학 = Introduction to solid state physics (in Korean) (Kaejŏng 7-p'an ed.). U, Chong-ch'ŏn., 우종천. 1997 Pŏmhan Sŏjok Chusik Hoesa Sŏul OCLC  38038777
ISBN  978-89-7129-087-3
Japanese 固体物理学入門. 上 上 (in Japanese) (Dai 7-han ed.). Ryōsei Uno, 良清 宇野 1998 Maruzen Tōkyō OCLC  38943576
ISBN  978-4-621-04423-0
Polish Wstęp do fizyki ciała stałego (in Polish). Wiesława Korczak 1999 Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN Warszawa OCLC  41259843
ISBN  978-83-01-12706-0
Japanese Kotai butsurigaku nyūmon. jō (in Japanese). Uno, Ryōsei., Tsuya, Noboru., Niizeki, Komajirō., 宇野, 良清, 津屋, 昇 2005 Maruzen Tōkyō OCLC  676541713
ISBN  978-4-621-07653-8
German Einführung in die Festkörperphysik (in German) (14., überarb. und erw. Aufl ed.). Siegfried Hunklinger 2005 München Wien Oldenbourg München OCLC  163412454
ISBN  978-3-486-57723-5
Chinese Gu tai wu li xue dao lun (Er ban ed.). Hong, Lian-hui (wu li xue), Liu, Li-ji., Wei, Rong-jun., Kittel, Charles, 1916-, 洪連輝 (物理學), 劉立基. 2006 Gao li Tai bei xian wu gu xiang OCLC  176861489
ISBN  978-986-412-348-3
French Physique de l'état solide: cours et problèmes (in French). Paul McEuen 2007 Dunod Paris OCLC  213053150
ISBN  978-2-10-049710-2
Italian Introduzione alla fisica dello stato solido (in Italian). Ennio Bonetti; Carlo Bottani; Franco Ciccacci 2008 C.E.A. Milano OCLC  860462787
ISBN  978-88-08-18362-0
Turkish Katı hal fiziğine giriş (in Turkish) (Sekizinci baskıdan çeviri ed.). Gülsen Önengüt; Demir Önengüt; H İbrahim Somyürek 2014 Palme Yayıncılık Ankara OCLC  949367956
ISBN  978-605-355-225-3
Spanish Introducción a la fisica del estado sólido (in Spanish). J. Anguilar Peris; J. de la Rubia Pacheco 2018 Reverté Barcelona OCLC  1083203050
ISBN  978-84-291-4317-1
Korean Goche mullihak (in Korean). Ujongcheon., Sin, Seongcheol., Yu, Geonho., I, Seongik., I, Jaeil. 2019 Tekseuteu Bukseu Seoul OCLC  1128665713
ISBN  978-89-93543-78-0
Polish Wstęp do fizyki ciała stałego (in Polish) (Wyd. 5, 3 dodr ed.). Wiesława Korczak; Tadeusz Skośkiewicz; Andrzej Wiśniewski; Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN 2012 Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN Warszawa OCLC  803803518
ISBN  978-83-01-16804-9

See also

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