This Second Edition of the unified treatment of condensedmatter physics keeps the best of the first, providing a basicfoundation in the subject while addressing many recent discoveries.Comprehensive and authoritative, it consolidates the criticaladvances of the past fifty years, bringing together an excitingcollection of new and classic topics, dozens of new figures, andnew experimental data.

This updated edition offers a thorough treatment of such basictopics as band theory, transport theory, and semiconductor physics,as well as more modern areas such as quasicrystals, dynamics ofphase separation, granular materials, quantum dots, Berry phases,the quantum Hall effect, and Luttinger liquids. In addition tocareful study of electron dynamics, electronics, andsuperconductivity, there is much material drawn from soft matterphysics, including liquid crystals, polymers, and fluiddynamics.

• Provides frequent comparison of theory and experiment, both whenthey agree and when problems are still unsolved

• Incorporates many new images from experiments

• Provides end-of-chapter problems including computationalexercises

• Includes more than fifty data tables and a detailed forty-pageindex

• Offers a solutions manual for instructors

Featuring 370 figures and more than 1,000 recent andhistorically significant references, this volume serves as avaluable resource for graduate and undergraduate students inphysics, physics professionals, engineers, applied mathematicians,materials scientists, and researchers in other fields who want tolearn about the quantum and atomic underpinnings of materialsscience from a modern point of view.