Read more
This book is intended as a basic text for a two-term graduate course for physicists, engineers and chemists with a background in quantum and statistical mechanics. What sets it apart from other publications on the subject is its extensive use of Green's function techniques and its detailed discussion of the application of the mean-field approximation and dipole-dipole interactions in one, two and three dimensions. A chapter each has been devoted to low-dimensional systems, surface magnetism and layered systems. A total of 60 exercises have also been included.
About the author
Norberto Majlis graduated with a BSc in Physics from the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina and obtained a PhD in mathematical physics from the University of Birmingham in England. He was previously an associate professor at the National University of La Plata in Argentina, the University of Chile at Santiago in Chile, and the Federal University of Pernambuco and the Federal Fluminense University in Brazil, and also held the position of Visiting Professor at the International School for Advanced Studies in Trieste and Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Italy. Currently a Visiting Professor at the Physics Department of McGill University in Montreal, Canada, he has performed theoretical research work on the electronic structure of semiconductors, the theory of chemisorption and the magnetism of surfaces, amongst other subjects.
