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| Name | Ashcroft and Mermin |
Ashcroft and Mermin is a commonly used shorthand referring to a foundational textbook in condensed matter physics authored by two prominent physicists. The work serves as a standard reference for students and researchers, synthesizing theoretical frameworks, experimental phenomena, and mathematical techniques. It is frequently cited across academic curricula, laboratory courses, and research literature in solid state physics.
The book provides a unified presentation of crystalline solids, electronic structure, and collective phenomena engaging topics linked to Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, Erwin Schrödinger, Paul Dirac, Wolfgang Pauli, Enrico Fermi, Fritz London, Lev Landau, Philip Anderson, John Bardeen, Walter Kohn, Lev P. Gor'kov, Philip W. Anderson, Brian Josephson, Niels Bohr, J. J. Thomson, Arthur Ashkin, Lars Onsager, P. W. Anderson, Frederik Hund, Max Born, Hendrik Lorentz, Felix Bloch, Felix Klein, Paul Langevin, Charles Kittel, Peter Higgs, Yoichiro Nambu, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Richard Feynman, Murray Gell-Mann, Hideki Yukawa, Lev Landau Institute, Cambridge University Press, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Princeton University, Stanford University, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, Columbia University, University of California, Berkeley, Bell Laboratories, Los Alamos National Laboratory, CERN, IBM Research, Max Planck Society, Royal Society, National Academy of Sciences, American Physical Society, Institute of Physics, European Physical Society, Tokyo Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich, California Institute of Technology, Imperial College London, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Chapters systematically develop lattice dynamics, electronic band theory, and transport, referencing foundational results attributed to Felix Bloch, Ludwig Boltzmann, Enrico Fermi, Paul Dirac, Werner Heisenberg, Lev Landau, John Bardeen, Walter Kohn, J. C. Slater, J. M. Ziman, Nevill Mott, J. H. Van Vleck, Philip W. Anderson, David Pines, Nozières', Julian Schwinger, Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Yoichiro Nambu, Yoichiro Nambu', Shuji Nakamura, H. E. Stanley, Alan Guth, Stephen Hawking, Roger Penrose, Andrei Sakharov, Lev Pitaevskii, Evgeny Lifshitz, Igor Tamm, Arnold Sommerfeld, Gregory Wannier, J. Robert Schrieffer, Brian D. Josephson, Philip W. Anderson', John von Neumann, Norbert Wiener, Hermann Weyl, Satyendra Nath Bose, Albert A. Michelson, Hans Bethe, Eugene Wigner, Stanislaw Ulam, Richard Dalitz, Freeman Dyson, Pauling', Linus Pauling', J. J. Sakurai.
Sections include mathematical appendices using methods developed by S.V. Fomin, Kohn Sham', Andrey Kolmogorov, Carlo Rovelli, Murray Rosenblatt, Isaac M. Singer, Marston Morse, E. T. Whittaker, G. H. Hardy, Kurt Gödel, Andrey Markov, Srinivasa Ramanujan, David Hilbert, Emmy Noether, John von Neumann', Norbert Wiener'. The pedagogical layout aligns problem sets with experimental techniques emerging from X-ray crystallography, Neutron diffraction, Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, Scanning tunneling microscopy, Transmission electron microscopy, Raman spectroscopy, Nuclear magnetic resonance.
The text synthesized mid-20th-century advances tracing roots to early work at Bell Laboratories, Cambridge University, Harvard University, Princeton University, University of Chicago, Columbia University, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of California, Berkeley, University of Pennsylvania, Cornell University, Brown University, Yale University, Duke University, University of Michigan, University of Wisconsin–Madison, University of Minnesota, McGill University, University of Toronto, University of British Columbia, Australian National University, University of Tokyo, Sorbonne University, École Normale Supérieure, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Zürich ETH, Moscow State University, Institute for Advanced Study, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Rutherford Laboratory, CSIRO.
Collaborations and seminars at institutions like Bell Laboratories, Harvard University, Cambridge University, Stanford University, Princeton University helped shape exposition, integrating results from conferences such as the Solvay Conference, ICPS, APS March Meeting, MRS Fall Meeting, IUPAP gatherings.
Academic adoption was rapid across departments at MIT, Caltech, Stanford University, Princeton University, Harvard University, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, ETH Zurich, Imperial College London, University of Tokyo, Tsinghua University, Peking University, University of Toronto, McGill University, University of British Columbia, University of Melbourne, University of Sydney, Indian Institute of Science, Indian Institutes of Technology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Seoul National University, KAIST, National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University and research labs at Bell Laboratories, IBM Research, CERN, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory, Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Reviews in journals and citations in proceedings from Physical Review Letters, Physical Review B, Reviews of Modern Physics, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Nature Materials, Science, Nature Physics, Reports on Progress in Physics attest to influence on curricula and research directions, including studies of semiconductors, superconductivity, magnetism, topological insulators, graphene, high-temperature superconductivity, quantum Hall effect.
Multiple printings and editions appeared from publishers such as Holt, Rinehart and Winston, W. A. Benjamin, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press with translations distributed by houses in Japan, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, China, Russia, Brazil, India, South Korea, Turkey, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary and used in courses at MIT, Caltech, Stanford University, Princeton University, Harvard University, University of Cambridge.
Reissues and library holdings are cataloged at institutions including Library of Congress, British Library, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, National Diet Library, National Library of China.
The text shaped problem-based pedagogy in undergraduate and graduate programs at MIT, Stanford University, Caltech, Harvard University, Princeton University, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, ETH Zurich, Imperial College London, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tsinghua University, Peking University, Indian Institutes of Technology, University of Toronto, McGill University, University of British Columbia, University of Melbourne. It influenced curricula in laboratory courses at Bell Laboratories, IBM Research, CERN, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and informed theoretical research at Max Planck Society, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory.
The book’s examples have been cited in theses submitted to Princeton University, Harvard University, MIT, Stanford University, Caltech, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, ETH Zurich.
Critiques in reviews at Physical Review Letters, Physical Review B, Reviews of Modern Physics and commentaries from faculty at MIT, Harvard University, Stanford University, Princeton University, University of Cambridge highlight omissions in cutting-edge topics like topological insulators, quantum spin liquids, strongly correlated electron systems, non-equilibrium dynamics as developed later at Perimeter Institute and Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems. Some educators at Imperial College London, ETH Zurich, University of Tokyo recommend supplemental materials from contemporary monographs and review articles in Nature Reviews Physics and Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics.
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