Advanced Condensed Matter Physics

This graduate textbook includes coverage of important topics that are not commonly featured in other textbooks on condensed matter physics such as treatments of surfaces the quantum Hall effect and superfluidity. It avoids complex formalism such as Green''s functions which can obscure the underlying physics and instead emphasizes fundamental physical reasoning. Intended for classroom use it features plenty of references and extensive problems for solution based on the author''s many years of teaching in the Physics Department at the University of Michigan. This textbook is suitable for physics chemistry and engineering graduate students and as a reference for research students in condensed matter physics. Engineering students will find the treatment of the fundamentals of semiconductor devices and the optics of solids of particular interest.