Solid State Physics

Giuseppe Grosso graduated in Physics at the University of Pisa in 1972 and PhD from the Scuola Normale Superiore in 1977, He is a retired full professor of Solid State Physics at the Physics Department of Pisa. The main research topics addressed concern electronic and optical properties of perfect 3D and nanostructured solids, Green’s function, recursion and renormalization methods, continued fractions coherent transport, Keldysh formalism, conjugated polymers and molecular crystals, silicon and germanium based photonics.Giuseppe Pastori Parravicini graduated in Physics at the University of Milan in 1963, then moved to the Physics Institute of the University of Pisa where he taught Solid State Physics for more than two decades. From 1990 he moved as full professor to the Department of physics of the University of Pavia where he taught until 2011. Giuseppe Pastori Parravicini has made original contributions in many areas of theoretical Solid State Physics. Among them are the study of lamellar compounds, the theory of symmetries for the classification of electronic states, the electron-phonon interaction, nonlinear optical spectroscopy, many-body effects in excited states in atoms, molecules and solids, quantum transport using the non-equilibrium Keldysh function.

• PrefaceI - Electrons in one-dimensional periodic potentialsII - Geometrical description of crystals: Direct and reciprocal latticesIII - The Sommerfeld free-electron theory of metalsIV - The one-electron approximation and beyondV - Band theory of crystalsVI - Electronic properties of selected crystalsVII - Excitons, plasmons and dielectric screening in crystalsVIII - Interacting electronic-nuclear systems and the adiabatic principleIX - Lattice dynamics of crystalsX - Scattering of particles by crystalsXI - Optical and transport properties in metalsXII - Optical properties of semiconductors and insulatorsXIII - Transport in intrinsic and homogeneously doped semiconductorsXIV - Transport in inhomogeneous semiconductorsXV - Electron gas in magnetic fieldsXVI - Magnetic properties of localized systems and Kondo impuritiesXVII - Magnetic ordering in crystalsXVIII - SuperconductivitySubject index