| Introduction to Solid State Physics | |
| Author: | Charles Kittel |
| Pub Date: | 1953 (1st ed.) |
| Language: | English |
| Country: | United States |
| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons |
| Congress: | QC176.K5 |
| Isbn: | 978-1-119-45416-8 |
| Oclc: | 787838554 |
| Dewey: | 530.4 |
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| Notes: | Identifiers refer to the 8th edition of the book, printed in 2005, unless otherwise noted |
Introduction to Solid State Physics, known colloquially as Kittel, is a classic condensed matter physics textbook written by American physicist Charles Kittel in 1953. The book has been highly influential and has seen widespread adoption; Marvin L. Cohen remarked in 2019 that Kittel's content choices in the original edition played a large role in defining the field of solid-state physics.[1] It was also the first proper textbook covering this new field of physics. The book is published by John Wiley and Sons and, as of 2018, it is in its ninth edition and has been reprinted many times as well as translated into over a dozen languages, including Chinese, French, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, and Turkish. In some later editions, the eighteenth chapter, titled Nanostructures, was written by Paul McEuen. Along with its rival Ashcroft and Mermin, the book is considered a standard textbook in condensed matter physics.
Kittel received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1941 under his advisor Gregory Breit. Before being promoted to professor of physics at UC Berkeley in 1951, Kittel held several other positions. He worked for the Naval Ordnance Laboratory from 1940 to 1942, was a research physicist in the US Navy until 1945, worked at the Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT from 1945 to 1947 and at Bell Labs from 1947 to 1951, and was a visiting associate professor at UC Berkeley from 1950 until his promotion.
Henry Ehrenreich has noted that before the first edition of Introduction to Solid State Physics came out in 1953, there were no other textbooks on the subject; rather, the young field's study material was spread across several prominent articles and treatises. The field of solid state physics was very new at the time of writing and was defined by only a few treatises that, in the Ehrenreich's view, expounded rather than explained the topics and were not suitable as textbooks.
The book covers a wide range of topics in solid state physics, including Bloch's theorem, crystals, magnetism, phonons, Fermi gases, magnetic resonance, and surface physics. The chapters are broken into sections that highlight the topics.
| Table of contents (8th ed.) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Chapter | Title | Topics[2] | |
| 1 | Crystal Structure | Crystal structure | |
| 2 | Wave Diffraction and the Reciprocal Lattice | diffraction, Bragg Law, Fourier analysis, reciprocal lattice vectors, Laue equations, Brillouin zone, atomic form factor | |
| 3 | Crystal Binding and Elastic Constants | Van der Waals force, Ionic crystals, covalent crystals, metals | |
| 4 | Phonons I. Crystal Vibrations | phonons | |
| 5 | Phonons II. Thermal Properties | phonons | |
| 6 | Free Electron Fermi Gas | Fermi gas, free electron model | |
| 7 | Energy Bands | nearly free electron model, Bloch's theorem, Kronig-Penney model, crystal momentum | |
| 8 | Semiconductor Crystals | band gap, electron holes, semimetals, superlattices | |
| 9 | Fermi Surfaces and Metals | Fermi surfaces | |
| 10 | Superconductivity | superconductivity, BCS theory, superconductors | |
| 11 | Diamagnetism and Paramagnetism | diamagnetism and paramagnetism | |
| 12 | Ferromagnetism and Antiferromagnetism | ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism | |
| 13 | Magnetic Resonance | magnetic resonance | |
| 14 | Plasmons, Polaritons, and Polarons | plasmons, polaritons, polarons | |
| 15 | Optical Processes and Excitons | excitons, Kramers-Kronig relations | |
| 16 | Dielectrics And Ferroelectrics | Maxwell equations in matter | |
| 17 | Surface and Interface Physics | surface physics | |
| 18 | Nanostructures (by Paul McEuen) | electron microscopy, optical microscopy | |
| 19 | Noncrystalline Solids | glasses | |
| 20 | Point Defects | lattice defects | |
| 21 | Dislocations | shear strength of crystals, dislocations, hardness of materials | |
| 22 | Alloys | Hume-Rothery rules, electrical conductivity, Kondo effect | |
Marvin L. Cohen and Morrel H. Cohen, in an obituary for Kittel in 2019, remarked that the original book "was not only the dominant text for teaching in the field, it was on the bookshelf of researchers in academia and industry throughout the world",[3] though they did not provide any time frame on when it may have been surpassed as the dominant text. They also noted that Kittel's content choices played a large role in defining the field of solid-state physics.
The book is a classic textbook in the subject and has seen use as a comparative benchmark in the reviews of other books in condensed matter physics.[4] [5] In a 1969 review of another book, Robert G. Chambers noted that there were not many textbooks covering these topics, as "since 1953, Kittel's classic Introduction to Solid State Physics has dominated the field so effectively that few competitors have appeared", noting that the third edition continues that legacy. Before continuing, the reviewer noted that the book was too long for some uses and that less thorough works would be welcome.
| Language | Title | Translators | Year | Publisher | Location | Identifiers | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spanish | Book: Introduccion a la física del estado sólido. Spanish. | 1965 | Reverte | Barcelona | |||
| Hungarian | Book: Bevezetés a szilárdtestfizikába. Hungarian. | Ferenc Kedves | 1966 | Műszaki Kiadó | Budapest | ||
| Arabic | Book: al-Mabādiʼ al-asasiyah fi fizyāʼ al-jawāmid. Arabic. | Mahmūd Mukhtār | 1968 | Maktabat al-Nahdah al-Misriyah nushir haḍa al-kitạb maʻah muassasat Frankilīn ; Mūassasat Frankilīn | al-Qāhirah; al-Qāhirah; New York | ||
| Japanese | Book: 固体物理学入門. 上 上 . Japanese. | 良清 宇野 | 1968 | 丸善 | Tokyo | ||
| Romanian | Book: Introducere în fizica corpului solid. Romanian. | Anatolie Hristev; Cornelia C. Rusu | 1972 | Editura Tehnică | Bucureşti | ||
| French | Book: Introduction à la physique de l'état solide . 3rd . French. | Alain Honnart | 1972 | Dunod | Paris | ||
| Japanese | Book: 固体物理学入門. 上 上 . Japanese. | 1974 | 丸善 | Tokyo | |||
| Russian | Book: Vvedenie v fiziku tverdogo tela . Russian. | A. A Gusev | 1978 | "Nauka", Glav. red. fiziko-matematicheskoĭ lit-ry | Moskva | ||
| Japanese | Book: 固体物理学入門. 上 . Japanese. | Ryōsei Uno | 1978 | 丸善 | Tōkyō | ||
| Modern Greek | Book: Eisagōgē stē physikē stereas katastaseōs. el. 5th. | C. Papageorgopoulos | 1976 | G. Pneumatikou | Athēna | ||
| Chinese | Book: 固態物理學概論 / Gu tai wu li xue gai lun. Chinese. | 翁上林 | 1979 | 臺北市徐氏基金會 | 臺北市 | ||
| Spanish | Book: Introduccion a la física del estado sólido. 2. Spanish. | Serna Alcaraz, J., Serna Alcaraz, C. R., Piqueras de Noriega, J. | 1981 | Reverté | Barcelona | ||
| Czech | Book: Úvod do fyziky pevných látek: celost. vysokošk. učebnice pro stud. matematicko-fyz. a přírodověd. fakult. Czech. | Miloš Matyáš | 1985 | Academia | Praha | ||
| Japanese | Book: Kotai butsurigaku nyūmon. Japanese. | Uno, Ryōsei., 宇野, 良清 | 1988 | 丸善 | |||
| Malay | Book: Pengenalan fizik keadaan pepejal. Malay. | Khiruddin Abdullah; Karsono Ahmad Dasuki | 1995 | Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia | Pulau Pinang | ||
| Korean | Book: 고체물리학 = Introduction to solid state physics. Kaejŏng 7-p'an . Korean. | U, Chong-ch'ŏn., 우종천. | 1997 | Pŏmhan Sŏjok Chusik Hoesa | Sŏul | ||
| Japanese | Book: 固体物理学入門. 上 上 . Japanese. Dai 7-han. | Ryōsei Uno, 良清 宇野 | 1998 | Maruzen | Tōkyō | ||
| Polish | Book: Wstęp do fizyki ciała stałego. Polish. | Wiesława Korczak | 1999 | Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN | Warszawa | ||
| Japanese | Book: Kotai butsurigaku nyūmon. jō. Japanese. | Uno, Ryōsei., Tsuya, Noboru., Niizeki, Komajirō., 宇野, 良清, 津屋, 昇 | 2005 | Maruzen | Tōkyō | ||
| German | Book: Einführung in die Festkörperphysik. 14., überarb. und erw. Aufl. German. | Siegfried Hunklinger | 2005 | München Wien Oldenbourg | München | ||
| Chinese | Book: Gu tai wu li xue dao lun. Er ban. | Hong, Lian-hui (wu li xue), Liu, Li-ji., Wei, Rong-jun., Kittel, Charles, 1916-, 洪連輝 (物理學), 劉立基. | 2006 | Gao li | Tai bei xian wu gu xiang | ||
| French | Book: Physique de l'état solide: cours et problèmes. French. | Paul McEuen | 2007 | Dunod | Paris | ||
| Italian | Book: Introduzione alla fisica dello stato solido. Italian. | Ennio Bonetti; Carlo Bottani; Franco Ciccacci | 2008 | C.E.A. | Milano | ||
| Turkish | Book: Katı hal fiziğine giriş. Turkish. Sekizinci baskıdan çeviri. | Gülsen Önengüt; Demir Önengüt; H İbrahim Somyürek | 2014 | Palme Yayıncılık | Ankara | ||
| Spanish | Book: Introducción a la fisica del estado sólido. Spanish. | J. Anguilar Peris; J. de la Rubia Pacheco | 2018 | Reverté | Barcelona | ||
| Korean | Book: Goche mullihak.. Korean. | Ujongcheon., Sin, Seongcheol., Yu, Geonho., I, Seongik., I, Jaeil. | 2019 | Tekseuteu Bukseu | Seoul | ||
| Polish | Book: Wstęp do fizyki ciała stałego. Polish. Wyd. 5, 3 dodr. | Wiesława Korczak; Tadeusz Skośkiewicz; Andrzej Wiśniewski; Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN | 2012 | Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN | Warszawa |