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The Crystal Lattice: Phonons, Solitons, Dislocations, Superlattices, 2nd, Revised and Updated Edition
ISBN: 978-3-527-40508-4
Hardcover
356 pages
November 2005
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Prefaces.

PART I: INTRODUCTION.

Geometry of crystal lattice.

PART II: CLASSICAL DYNAMICS OF A CRYSTAL LATTICE.

Mechanics of a one-dimensional crystal.

General analysis of vibrations of monoatomic lattices.

Vibrations of polyatomic lattices.

Frequency spectrum and its connection with the Green's function.

Acoustics of elastic ssuperlattices: Phonon crystals.

PART III: QUANTUM MECHANICS OF CRYSTALS.

Quantization of crystal vibrations.

Interaction of excitations in a crystal.

Quantum crystals.

PART IV: DEFECTS.

Point defects.

Dislocations and disclinations.

Linear crystal defects.

Localization of vibrations.

Localization of vibrations near extended defects.

Elastic field of dislocations in a crystal.

Dislocation dynamics.

Bibliography.

Index.