TY  - BOOK
AU  - Grüner, George
TI  - Density waves in solids
SN  - 9780367841591
U1  - 530.416 
PY  - 1994///
CY  - Boca Raton
PB  - CRC Press
KW  - Charge density waves
KW  - Energy-band theory of solids
N2  - "Density Waves in Solids is written for graduate students and scientists interested in solid-state sciences. It discusses the theoretical and experimental state of affairs of two novel types of broken symmetry ground states of metals, charge, and spin density waves. These states arise as the consequence of electron-phonon and electron-electron interactions in low-dimensional metals." "Some fundamental aspects of the one-dimensional electron gas, and of the materials with anisotropic properties, are discussed first. This is followed by the mean field theory of the phase transitions - discussed using second quantized formalism - together with the various experimental observations on the transition and on the ground states. Fluctuation effects and the collective excitations are reviewed next, using the Ginzburg-Landau formalism, followed by the review of the interaction of these states with the underlying lattice and with impurities. The final chapters are devoted to the response of the ground states to external perturbations."--Jacket
ER  -