Transport phenomena
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Transport phenomena
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1989
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Transport phenomena pervade physics. The application of the statistical principles of kinetic theory to non-equilibrium situations, not only in the gas phase but also to plasmas, liquids and solids, provides an approach to the explanation of these phenomena. This book, which is aimed at the physics postgraduate and theoretician, introduces the concepts outlined above and applies them within the framework of the Boltzmann equation to a range of systems. The text assumes a familiarity with the basic concepts of statistical mechanics and condensed matter physics. Beginning with the dilute classical gas, the authors then consider electron conduction in normal metals, insulators, superconductors and quantum liquids and Bose liquids.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Gases: the Boltzmann equation
- the H-theorem
- conservation laws
- linearization and eigenfunction expansion
- variational principles
- the relaxation time approximation
- thermal conductivity and viscosity
- second viscosity
- diffusion
- boundary scattering and fluid slip
- Knudsen flow
- the Onsager relations
- the density matrix method
- sound and spin waves
- dielectric screening. Part 2 Normal metals: electron-impurity scattering
- transport properties of the free electron gas
- electrons in a periodic potential
- magnetoconductivity
- open orbits and magnetic breakdown
- electron-phonon scattering
- electrical and thermal conductivity
- skin effect and cyclotron resonance
- Matthiessen's rule
- electron-electron scattering
- thermopower and phonon drag. Part 3 Semiconductors: transport in homogeneous semiconductors
- scattering processes in semiconductors
- hot electrons
- transport in high magnetic fields. Part 4 Insulators: the phonon Boltzmann equation
- thermal conductivity
- second sound. Part 5 Superconductors: the quasiparticle Boltzmann equation
- thermal conductivity
- charge imbalance
- the matrix kinetic equation
- the two-fluid model
- thermoelectricity. Part 6 Normal Fermi liquids: Landau theory
- thermal conductivity and viscosity
- sound propagation
- spin dynamics. Part 7 Superfluid quantum liquids. Part 8 Impure metals: the Keldysh method
- weak localization. Part 9 The validity of the Boltzmann equation: classical gases
- normal metals
- superconductors. Appendices: second quantization formalism
- the Boltzmann equation for particle-particle scattering.
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