Introduction to Solid State Physics
 Cover of the book's 8th edition | |
| Author | Charles Kittel |
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| Language | English |
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| Publisher | John Wiley and Sons |
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| Publication place | United States |
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| ISBN | 978-1-119-45416-8 |
| OCLC | 787838554 |
| 530.4'1—dc22 | |
| LC Class | QC176.K5 2005 |
| Identifiers refer to the 8th edition of the book, printed in 2005, unless otherwise noted | |
Introduction to Solid State Physics is a classic condensed matter physics textbook originally 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 several languages, including Chinese, French, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, and Russian. In some later editions, the eighteenth chapter, titled Nanostructures, was written by Paul McEuen.
Background
Kittel received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1941 under his advisor Gregory Breit.[4] Before being promoted to professor physics at UC Berkely in 1951, Kittel held several other positions, including work for the Naval Ordnance Laboratory from 1940 to 1942, he was a research physicist in the US Navy until 1945, the Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT from 1945 to 1947, Bell Labs from 1947 to 1951, and visiting associate professor at UC Berkley from 1950 until his promotion.[4] Henry Ehrenreich has noted that before the first edition came out in 1953, there were no other textbooks on solid state physics, 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 gas, magnetic resonance, and surface physics. The chapters are broken into sections that highlight the topics.[5]
| Table of contents (8th ed.) | ||
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| 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 | |
| 22 | Alloys | |
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]
- Several notable reviews of the first edition were published in 1954, including Arthur James Cochran Wilson,[6] Leslie Fleetwood Bates,[7] and Kenneth Standley,[8] among others.[9][10][11][12]
- The second edition of the book was reviewed by Robert W. Hellwarth in 1957,[13] among others.[14][15][16][17]
- Donald F. Holcomb reviewed the book's third edition in 1967.[18]
Publication history
As of 2018, the book has nine editions, many different reprints and eBooks for two editions, and has been translated into other several languages, including Chinese, French, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, and Russian. There are reprints and foreign translations published in other countries, but all nine editions were published originally by John Wiley and Sons in the United States.
Original prints
- Kittel, Charles (1953). Introduction to solid state physics (1st ed.). New York: Wiley. p. 396.
- Kittel, Charles (1956). Introduction to solid state physics (2nd ed.). New York: Wiley. p. 617.
- Kittel, Charles (1966). Introduction to solid state physics (3rd ed.). New York ; London: Wiley. p. 613. OCLC 1159631475.
- Kittel, Charles (1971). Introduction to solid state physics (4th ed.). New York: John Wiley & Sons. p. 766. ISBN 978-0-471-49021-0.
- Kittel, Charles (1976). Introduction to solid state physics (5th ed.). New York: Wiley. p. 673. ISBN 978-0-471-49024-1.
- Kittel, Charles (1986). Introduction to solid state physics (6th ed.). New York: Wiley. p. 646. ISBN 978-0-471-87474-4.
- Kittel, Charles (1996). Introduction to solid state physics (7th ed.). New York: Wiley. p. 673. ISBN 978-0-471-11181-8. OCLC 263625446.
- Kittel, Charles (2005). Introduction to solid state physics (8th ed.). New York: Wiley. p. 680. ISBN 978-0-471-68057-4.
- Kittel, Charles; McEuen, Paul (2018). Introduction to solid state physics (Global ed.,9th ed.). New Jersey: Wiley. p. 692. ISBN 978-1-119-45416-8.
Reprints
- Kittel, Charles (1954) [1953]. Introduction to solid state physics (1st ed.). New York: John Wiley and Sons. p. 396. OCLC 1123251585.
- Kittel, Charles (1967). Introduction to solid state physics (3rd ed.). New York: Wiley. p. 648.
- Kittel, Charles (1987). Introduction to solid state physics (6th ed.). New delhi: Wiley Eastern Ltd. p. 599.
- Kittel, Charles (2011). Introduction to solid state physics (8th ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. p. 680. ISBN 978-0-471-41526-8. OCLC 730010889.
- Kittel, Charles (2013). Introduction to solid state physics (8th ed.). New Jersey: Wiley. p. 680. ISBN 978-0-471-41526-8.
- Kittel, Charles; McEuen, Paul (2015). Introduction to solid state physics (8th ed.). New Delhi: Wiley. p. 680. ISBN 978-81-265-3518-7.
Electronic editions
- Kittel, Charles (2005). Introduction to solid state physics (8th ed.). New York: Wiley. OCLC 1035670799.
- Kittel, Charles; McEuen, Paul (2018). Introduction to solid state physics (Global ed. 9th. ed.). New Jersey: Wiley. ISBN 978-1-119-45618-6.
Foreign translations
- Kittel, Charles; 宇野, 良清 (1968). 固体物理学入門. 上 上 (in Japanese). Tokyo: 丸善. p. 292.
- Kittel, Charles; Honnart, Alain (1972). Introduction à la physique de l'état solide (in French) (3rd ed.). Paris: Dunod. p. 758. ISBN 978-2-04-005248-5.
- Kittel, Charles (1974). 固体物理学入門. 上 上 (in Japanese). Tokyo: 丸善. p. 380.<
- Kittel, Charles; Gusev, A. A (1978). Vvedenie v fiziku tverdogo tela (in Russian). "Nauka", Glav. red. fiziko-matematicheskoĭ lit-ry. p. 790.
- Kittel, Charles (1978). 固体物理学入門. 上 (in Japanese). 丸善. p. 270.
- Kittel, Charles (1979). 固態物理學概論 (in Chinese). 臺北市徐氏基金會. p. 270.
- Kittel, Charles; 宇野, 良清 (1988). 固体物理学入門. 上 上 (in Japanese). ISBN 978-4-621-03250-3.
- Kittel, Charles; Abdullah, Khiruddin; Dasuki, Karsono Ahmad (1995). Pengenalan fizik keadaan pepejal (in Indonesian) (6th ed.). Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia. ISBN 978-983-861-100-8.
- Kittel, Charles (1997). 고체물리학 = Introduction to solid state physics (in Korean). 凡韓書籍株式會社. ISBN 978-89-7129-087-3.
- Kittel, Charles; 宇野, 良清 (1998). 固体物理学入門. 上 上 (in Japanese). ISBN 978-4-621-04423-0.
- Kittel, Charles; 宇野, 良清; 津屋, 昇; 新関, 駒二郎 (2005). 固体物理学入門. 上 上 (in Japanese). Tōkyō: 丸善. p. 318. ISBN 978-4-621-07653-8.
See also
References
- ^ a b c Chambers, R. G. (12 June 1969). "Alternative to Kittel". Nature. 224 (5223): 983–983. doi:10.1038/224983b0. ISSN 1476-4687.
- ^ Cohen, Marvin L.; Cohen, Morrel H. (1 October 2019). "Charles Kittel". Physics Today. 72 (10): 73–73. doi:10.1063/PT.3.4326. ISSN 0031-9228.
…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. In many ways, his choice of content defined solid-state physics.
- ^ a b c d Ehrenreich, Henry (19 August 1977). "Solid State: A New Exposition". Science. 197 (4305): 753–753. doi:10.1126/science.197.4305.753. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 17790767.
- ^ a b c d Cohen, Marvin L.; Cohen, Morrel H. (1 October 2019). "Charles Kittel". Physics Today. 72 (10): 73–73. doi:10.1063/PT.3.4326. ISSN 0031-9228.
- ^ a b "Introduction to Solid State Physics, 8th Edition | Wiley". Wiley.com. Retrieved 2 November 2020.
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- ^ Standley, K. J. (April 1954). "Introduction to solid state physics". Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. 2 (3): 213. doi:10.1016/0022-5096(54)90027-7.
- ^ Muldawer, Leonard (October 1953). "Introduction to solid state physics". Journal of the Franklin Institute. 256 (4): 387–388. doi:10.1016/0016-0032(53)90624-3.
- ^ Dexter, David L. (November 1953). "Introduction to Solid State Physics". American Journal of Physics. 21 (8): 650–650. doi:10.1119/1.1933590. ISSN 0002-9505.
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- ^ anonymous (December 1956). "Introduction to solid state physics". Journal of the Franklin Institute. 262 (6): 517. doi:10.1016/0016-0032(56)90703-7.
- ^ Woolley, J.C. (January 1957). "Introduction to solid state physics". Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. 6 (1): 83. doi:10.1016/0022-5096(57)90051-0.
- ^ Jones, H. (1 May 1957). "Introduction to Solid State Physics by C. Kittel". Acta Crystallographica. 10 (5): 390–390. doi:10.1107/S0365110X57001280. ISSN 0365-110X.
- ^ Fan, H. Y. (May 1957). "Introduction to Solid State Physics". American Journal of Physics. 25 (5): 330–330. doi:10.1119/1.1934457. ISSN 0002-9505.
- ^ Holcomb, Donald F. (June 1967). "Introduction to Solid State Physics". American Journal of Physics. 35 (6): 547–548. doi:10.1119/1.1974177. ISSN 0002-9505.
External links
- "Introduction to Solid State Physics, 8th Edition | Wiley". Wiley.com. Retrieved 2 November 2020.
- "Remembering Charles Kittel | UC Berkeley Physics". physics.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2 November 2020.