The Crystal Lattice: Phonons, Solitons, Dislocations, Superlattices, 2nd, Revised and Updated Edition

ISBN: 978-3-527-40508-4

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356 pages

September 2005

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INTRODUCTION
- Geometry of crystal lattice
CLASSICAL DYNAMICS OF A CRYSTAL LATTICE
- Mechanics of a one-dimensional crystal
- General analysis of vibrations of monoatomic lattices
- Vibrations of polyatomic lattices
- Frequency spectrum and its connection with the Green's function
- Acoustics of elastic ssuperlattices: Phonon crystals
QUANTUM MECHANICS OF CRYSTALS
- Quantization of crystal vibrations
- Interaction of excitations in a crystal
- Quantum crystals
DEFECTS
- Point defects
- Dislocations and disclinations
- Linear crystal defects
- Localization of vibrations
- Localization of vibrations near extended defects
- Elastic field of dislocations in a crystal
- Dislocation dynamics