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Structure of Matter

An Introductory Course with Problems and Solutions

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  • © 2007

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Authors:
  1. Attilio Rigamonti

    1. Dipartimento di Fisica “A Volta”, Università degli Studi di Pavia, Pavia

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  2. Pietro Carretta

    1. Dipartimento di Fisica “A Volta”, Università degli Studi di Pavia, Pavia

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Part of the book sub series: Collana di Fisica e Astronomia (UNITEXTFIS)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVII
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  2. Atoms: general aspects

    • Attilio Rigamonti, Pietro Carretta
    Pages 1-62

  3. Typical atoms

    • Attilio Rigamonti, Pietro Carretta
    Pages 63-90

  4. The shell vectorial model

    • Attilio Rigamonti, Pietro Carretta
    Pages 91-128

  5. Atoms in electric and magnetic fields

    • Attilio Rigamonti, Pietro Carretta
    Pages 129-166

  6. Nuclear moments and hyperfine interactions

    • Attilio Rigamonti, Pietro Carretta
    Pages 167-204

  7. Spin statistics, magnetic resonance, spin motion and echoes

    • Attilio Rigamonti, Pietro Carretta
    Pages 205-236

  8. Molecules: general aspects

    • Attilio Rigamonti, Pietro Carretta
    Pages 237-250

  9. Electronic states in diatomic molecules

    • Attilio Rigamonti, Pietro Carretta
    Pages 251-284

  10. Electronic states in selected polyatomic molecules

    • Attilio Rigamonti, Pietro Carretta
    Pages 285-302

  11. Nuclear motions in molecules and related properties

    • Attilio Rigamonti, Pietro Carretta
    Pages 303-351

  12. Crystal structures

    • Attilio Rigamonti, Pietro Carretta
    Pages 353-368

  13. Electron states in crystals

    • Attilio Rigamonti, Pietro Carretta
    Pages 369-407

  14. Miscellaneous aspects related to the electronic structure

    • Attilio Rigamonti, Pietro Carretta
    Pages 409-433

  15. Vibrational motions of the ions and thermal effects

    • Attilio Rigamonti, Pietro Carretta
    Pages 435-463

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 465-474
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About this book

Intended Audience, Approach and Presentation This text is intended for a course of about fifteen weeks for undergraduate students. It arises from the adaptation and the amendments to a text for a full-year course in Structure of Matter, written by one of the authors (A.R.) about thirty years ago. At that time only a few (if any) textbooks having the suited form for introduction to basic quantum properties of atoms, molecules and crystals in a comprehensive and interrelated way, were available. Along the last twenty years many excellent books pursuing the aforementioned aim have been published (some of them are listed at the end of this preface). Still there are reasons, in our opinion, to attempt a further text devoted to the quantum roots of condensed matter properties. A practical aspect in this regard involves the organization of the studies in Physics, after the huge scien­ tific outburst of the various topics of fundamental and technological character in recent decades. In most Universities there is now a first period of three or four years, common to all the students and devoted to elementary aspects, followed by a more advanced program in rather specialized fields of Physics.

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"This highly recommended textbook builds bridges between elementary physics and research activities. Its main strength lies in its mixture of simplified theory in the main text and deeper exploration in the solved problems. It addresses key concepts and typical aspects of atoms, molecules and solids. … The numerous graphs and problems with solutions make this book particularly useful for self-studying an extremely wide scope of the structure of matter." (Peter Enders, Optics and Photonics News, February, 2008)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Dipartimento di Fisica “A Volta”, Università degli Studi di Pavia, Pavia

    Attilio Rigamonti, Pietro Carretta

About the authors

Attilio Rigamonti is full professor of Structure of Matter at the University of Pavia since 1976. Has given courses, lectures and seminars at many Universities, in Europe and in U.S, at international schools and congresses, as invited speaker. Supervisor of international research projects, member of Academies and scientific committees, Referee for international journals, has been requested to collaborate in books by Academic Press and Springer Verlag and by Institute of Physics for Advances in Physics and for Reports of Progress in Physics. Author of more than 200 papers published on the most important scientific journals and textbooks. Research fields include liquids, polymers and gels; ferroelectric and structural transitions; disorder, non-linearity and incommensuration effects; paramagnets, antiferromagnets and spin dynamics; high temperature superconductivity and superconducting fluctuations. Experimental techniques of expertise are pulsed NMR and NQR in solids; EPR and Mossbauer spectroscopies; dielectric and magnetic susceptibility.

Pietro Carretta is Associate Professor of Physics of Matter at the University of Pavia since 2001. Has given courses, lectures and seminars both in Italy and abroad. Has been member of the scientific and organizing committee of several conferences, member of the steering committee of European facilities and programmes, Referee for many international journals and international institutions. Author of about 100 manuscripts in peer reviewed international journals, including review articles for Reports for Progress in Physics and book chapters. Has been Principal Investigator of national projects. His research activity was basically experimental and mainly concerned the application of NMR-NQR and muSR to the study of high-Tc superconductors, one-dimensional organic conductors, magnetic clusters and one and two-dimensional quantum antiferromagnets.

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