Abstract
This Chapter covers the basic ingredients of modern solid state physics. It starts by reviewing the properties of the free electron gas in one, two and three dimensions. Semiclassical theories of electrical and thermal conductivity in metals are considered. Crystal structure and the physics of electrons in a periodic potential are discussed. Magnetic field effects on electrons in solids, including the Aharonov-Bohm and Aharonov-Casher effects, the integer and fractional Quantum Hall effects, Shubnikov-de Haas and de Haas van Alphen effects are treated. Semiconductor physics (including electron and hole conduction, excitons, spin-orbit effects, the spin-Hall effect and optical properties), spintronics, elementary excitations in solids (phonons, plasmons, magnons, polarons, polaritons), and insulators are treated.
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