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Preface

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2012

Philip Phillips
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University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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In writing the second edition of this text, I have tried to accomplish three things. First, correct all the typos in the first edition. This has turned out to be somewhat harder than I had anticipated. While I am certain my proofreaders and I corrected all mistakes we could find, that might not have been sufficient. As there will undoubtedly be a second printing, simply email me any errors you might find at dimer@illinois.edu. Second, include all the material that should have been in the first edition but that I had given up on writing. This includes Green functions, Luttinger's theorem, renormalization of short-range interactions for Fermi liquids, and symmetry. In keeping with this being a physics rather than a technique or mathematics tract, these subjects are interwoven wherever they are first needed. For example, the section on Green functions is in Chapter 7 where the Anderson impurity problem is treated. For completeness, Luttinger's theorem is also presented in the same chapter but in an appendix. Third, include new material that reflects the fast-moving pace of ħ = 1 research in condensed matter physics. Here I made a judgement based on what I anticipate students would find most useful. Since there are no texts that present the pedagogy of topological insulators (though some excellent review articles exist) and Mott insulators, I chose to focus on those topics. In writing the topological insulator section, I have tried to stick to the formulations that require the fewest definitions and new concepts since the physics of these systems is inherently simple.

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  • Preface
  • Philip Phillips, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  • Book: Advanced Solid State Physics
  • Online publication: 05 June 2012
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139031066.001
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  • Preface
  • Philip Phillips, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  • Book: Advanced Solid State Physics
  • Online publication: 05 June 2012
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139031066.001
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  • Preface
  • Philip Phillips, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  • Book: Advanced Solid State Physics
  • Online publication: 05 June 2012
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139031066.001
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