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This book introduces significant topics at the frontiers of condensed matter physics. It is appealing to graduate students and also to mature scholars in other subfields of science who wish to obtain an overview of the considerable intellectual challenge of contemporary solid... Read Full Overview

Solid state physics continues to be the most rapidly growing subdiscipline in physics. As a result, entering graduate students wishing to pursue research in this field face the daunting task of not only mastering the old topics but also gaining competence in the problems of current... Read Full Overview