Название: An Introduction to Condensed Matter Physics for the Nanosciences
Автор: Arthur McGurn
Издательство: CRC Press
Год: 2023
Страниц: 355
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 10.1 MB

The book provides an accessible introduction to the principles of condensed matter physics with a focus on the nanosciences and device technologies. The basics of electronic, phononic, photonic, superconducting, optics, quantum optics, and magnetic properties are explored, and nanoscience and device materials are incorporated throughout the chapters. Many examples of the fundamental principles of condensed matter physics are taken directly from nanoscience and device applications.

This is an introductory text on topics of condensed matter physics with a focus towards device development in the nanosciences. It is meant to give a basic treatment of materials that have been formulated in the theory of condensed matter physics over the past 60–70 years. Consequently, a wide variety of subjects are included in electronics, optics, and acoustics, and to a certain extent, the topics chosen are essential in developing a theoretical background for working on nanoscience devices. All the materials are approached at a level accessible to advanced undergraduate students and are based on the simplest mathematical treatments. In this regard, to facilitate the student, the text is fashioned to be self-contained, with ample references to more advanced literature.

In the recent years, a focus of the physical sciences has been on the development of miniaturized devices based on advancing technologies in electronics, optics, and acoustics. Many of the techniques employed in these studies result from unusual processes for the transport of electrons, photons, and phonons available at small length scales and in systems of lower dimensionality. These processes may involve media either designed on small length scales in which the phase properties of electrons, photons, or phonon significantly determine the transport or, alternatively, on processes involving the highly correlated motion of single-particle excitations. In this regard, advances have been made in the applications of ballistic transport in place of the more traditional mechanisms of diffusive transport and in the use of highly correlated motions of interacting particles to manipulate single-particle flow within nano systems.

In ballistic transport, the excitations of a system move effectively with little or no scattering through a conducting medium, so that a small number of transmission and reflection processes dominate the motion in the system. On the other hand, in more traditional diffusive transport processes, excitations encounter a high degree of random collision within a disordered medium, and this greatly determines the nature of the transport. The difference between these two types of transport is a focus of our study, where it is shown to offer new directions in engineering applications of materials. Consequently, these differences are of essential importance in the study of nano devices.

In addition, as systems become small, the interaction of individual electrons through the coulomb force has potential to dominate the determination of the electron motion. This high correlation of electron motions gives rise to the coulomb blockade effect, which is important in the development of single electron transistors as well as in electronic formulations based on circuit assemblies from individual molecules. In this regard, the ability to manipulate single particles through nanocircuits is found to be an essential new feature offered in nano device technologies.

This book requires a background in electrodynamics, quantum mechanics, and statistical mechanics at the undergraduate level. It will be a valuable reference for advanced undergraduates and graduate students of physics, engineering, and applied mathematics.

Features:

Contains discussions of the basic principles of quantum optics and its importance to lasers, quantum information, and quantum computation.
Provides references and a further reading list to additional scientific literature so that readers can use the book as a starting point to then follow up with a more advanced treatment of the topics covered.
Requires only a basic background in undergraduate electrodynamics, quantum mechanics, and statistical mechanics.

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction. Chapter 2: Conductivity. Chapter 3: Conductivity: Another View. Chapter 4: Properties of Periodic Media. Chapter 5: Basic Properties of Light and Its Interact with Matter. Chapter 6: Basic Properties of Lasers, Masers, and Spasers. Chapter 7: Semiconductor Junction. Chapter 8: Rectifiers and Transistors. Chapter 9: Toward Single Electron Transistors: Coulomb Blackade. Chapter 10: Quantum Hall Effect. Chapter 11: Resonance Properties. Chapter 12: Josephson Junction Properties and Basic Applications. Chapter 13: Scaling and Renormalization.