Atomic transport in solids
β Scribed by A. R. Allnatt, A. B. Lidiard
- Publisher
- CUP
- Year
- 1993
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 596
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
This book provides the fundamental statistical theory of atomic transport in crystalline solids. The cornerstones of the authors' treatment are (i) the physical concepts of lattice defects, (ii) the phenomenological description provided by non-equilibrium thermodynamics and (iii) the various methods of statistical mechanics used to link these (kinetic theory, random-walk theory, linear response theory, etc.). It shows how the results relate to a variety of experimental measurements, and provides the theoretical apparatus necessary for the interpretation of experimental results and for the computer modeling of atomic transport in solid systems as well as new insights into the theory itself.
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This book, of interest to researchers and advanced students of theoretical condensed matter physics, reports on the rapidly developing field of calculation of total energies and interatomic interactions in solids. The various contributions present exact and approximate schemes for obtaining realisti
The hopping process, which differs substantially from conventional transport processes in crystals, is the central process in the transport phenomena discussed in this book. Throughout the book the term ``hopping'' is defined as the inelastic tunneling transfer of an electron between two localized