My Goodreads Rating: 4 of 5 stars
By far the best of the solid state textbooks I’ve found. Whereas Kittel hops from model to model with little explanation, Ashcroft devotes entire chapters to the merits and failings of the free electron gas, periodic potentials, mean field theory, and so on. In a field that can seem as arbitrary as the dating preferences of teenage girls, such clarifications are crucial.
Still, Ashcroft does assume a grasp of graduate-level quantum mechanics at times. There’s fame, fortune, and wild and sexy physicist parties waiting for he or she who writes a great solid state text accessible to undergrads.
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