Errata for Introduction to the Physics of Matter, 1st ed. (2014)

• page v, 4th line to the bottom: represent → represents
• page 16, line 6 of the second paragraph: circles → cones
• page 18, sect. 2.1.3, line 4: -Zr/(2an) → -Zr/(an)
• page 19, Fig. 2.6: The cyan (n=4) and blue (n=5) curves should render as ··- and ···- respectively; see the correct figure here
• page 20, Fig. 2.7: The cyan (n=4) and blue (n=5) curves should render as ··- and ···- respectively; see the correct figure here
• page 21, Fig. 2.8: A minus is missing before q_e; see the correct figure here
• page 26, 2 lines above Eq. (2.32): For given l and considering → Considering
• page 37, second paragraph, second line: Bach → Back
• page 38, Fig. 2.13(a): four - characters are missing before three 1/2 and one 3/2 at the right side of the panel; see the fixed figure here
• page 38, last line: half odd-integer particles → half-odd-integer-spin particles
• page 43, third line after Eq. (2.66): in the sentence "repulsion (1.4) is of the same order of magnitude as the attraction (1.6) to the nucleus", 1.4 and 1.6 must be exchanged
• page 45, second line above Eq. (2.72): Appendix B.39 → Appendix B.9
• page 48, 2 lines above Eq. (2.75): the set of coupled nonlinear integro-differential equations called Hartree-Fock (HF) equations: → the nonlinear integro-differential equation called Hartree-Fock (HF) equation:
• page 48, 3 lines below Eq. (2.75): equations (2.74) become → equation (2.75) becomes
• page 48, last line: equations realize → equation realizes
• page 49, caption di fig. 2.18: equations → equation
• page 49, paragraph 2, line 6: equations → equation
• page 49, paragraph 2, line 8: equations → equation
• page 51, Fig. 2.20: a factor 2 (for spin) is missing in the label of panel a and in the formula in panel b: see the correct figure here
• page 54, third line of sect. 2.2.6: In concrete, it the sum → In concrete, d is the sum
• page 54, the derivation at the bottom: a sign (-1)^{P}+{P'} is lacking after both occurrences of a double sum over permutations Σ_P P', and N-1 Kroneker deltas are lacking in the final expression; see the fixed equation here
• page 57, Fig. 2.23: the M_V value of l is 2, not 1; see the fixed figure here
• page 57, 2 lines below Eq. (2.77): E_Ha/(4πℏc)≈1.097 × 10⁷ m^-1... approximately 2 → (3/8)E_Ha/(2πℏc)≈8.23 × 10⁶ m^-1, and the quantity a, accounting for screening, is of the order of unity
• page 58, paragraph 2, sentence 1: In the LS scheme.... angular momenta → The total angular momenta are often sufficient to characterize the atomic states (LS scheme): the total spin S, total orbital L, and total J momenta are collected to form a symbol ^2S+1[L]_J, e.g. ³P₂ for S=1, L=1, J=2
• page 58, at the end of Eq. (2.78): . → ,
• page 61, Fig. 2.26: two - characters are missing before the leftmost 1 and the lower 1/2 at each panel of the figure; see the fixed figure here
• page 61, footnote, fourth line: s_i → s_j
• page 65, line 21: basis → bases
• page 65, Fig. 2.29: fraction signs went missing: see the correct figure here
• page 66, line 7: µ = -g_J µ_B J/h, with a tendency to align to the field. → µ, whose component along the magnetic field µ_z = -g_J µ_B J_z/ħ.
• page 66, Fig. 2.30: three - characters are missing; see the fixed figure here
• page 76, bottom line in the text: build → built
• pages 76-77, from the caption of Fig. 3.2 to that of Fig. 3.3: all occurrences of r → r
• page 77, Fig. 3.3: a + character is missing before V_R near the center of the figure; a = character is missing before a₀ near the bottom center of the figure; the sign of the A wavefunction is opposite to the definition (3.11); see the fixed figure here
• page 81, line 6: payed → paid
• page 81, Fig. 3.6, caption last line: Bonding/antibonding single-electron orbitals are identified by their color → Stars identify antibonding orbitals
• page 83, third line: → u=(E_L-E_R)/|2Δ|=0
• page 83, 4th line of 3rd paragraph: ε_1s(H) << ε_2p(F) → ε_2p(F) << ε_1s(H)
• page 83, Fig. 3.7, caption second line: Blue indicates bonding, red indicates antibonding single-electron orbitals. → Stars identify antibonding orbitals.
• page 84, five lines from the end of sect. 3.2.2: covalently bound extended structures → covalently bound structures
• page 85, caption of Fig. 3.8, line 6: configurations. → configuration
• page 91, line 5: far shorted times scales → far shorter time scales
• page 91, 1 line before bottom line of the text: with → which
• page 92, Fig. 3.10: arrows are missing in the red labels, and the vertical label should be "absorption"; see the fixed figure here
• page 93, Fig. 3.12: an arrow point the wrong way: see the fixed figure here
• page 96, line 4: entirey → entirely
• page 99, line 9: sodium-chloride crystal weighting 1 g, → 1 g sodium-chloride crystal,
• page 99, line 15: since such intimate details of the dynamics of our salt crystal, because the individual motions of electrons → because such intimate details of the dynamics of our salt crystal as the motion of individual electrons
• page 125, line 2: number of particles → particle numbers
• page 125, lines 2 and 3: Q plays the same role for the grand canonical ensemble as Z for → In the grand canonical ensemble, Q plays the same role as Z in
• page 126, footnote 6, line 2: usually is → is usually
• page 129, line 5: Such a large → With such a large
• page 131, Fig. 4.13: a - character is missing before ε_F-W near the bottom right corner of the figure; see the fixed figure here
• page 133, Fig. 4.15: [K²] units are missing at the horixontal axis label; see the fixed figure here
• page 136, line 6: of n particles → of n_α particles
• page 136, line 14: lead → led
• page 139, secondo paragraph of Sect. 4.4, line 2: )and focus on two single-system levels only: → and, in the single-particle spectrum, focus on two levels:
• page 145, first line: this this → this
• page 147, last sentence: In the solid state → In ordinary (non-quantum) solids,
• page 153, fig. 5.4 caption line 4: picture the right → picture at the right
• page 155, text line 11: the scope the present → the scope of the present
• page 157, Fig. 5.13(a) and 5.13(b): one spot is missing in each picture; see the correct figures (a) and (b)
• page 162, text line 4: simple
• page 164, note 7, last sentence: The purpose of the following Section is precisely → The math of the following Sect. 5.1.2 is useful
• page 166 two lines after Eq. (5.12): b₁×b₂×b₃ → b₁×b₂⋅b₃
• page 167, third line from the bottom: only
• page 171, Fig. 5.30, caption first line: but
• page 173, text line 16: my means → by means
• page 180, line 5: basis → bases
• page 182, last paragraph: the Bloch functions u_{k j}(r). → the functions u_{k j}(r) of Eq. (5.24).
• page 182, footnote 13: u_{k j}(r) = ψ_j(r) e^k'⋅r → u_{k j}(r) = ψ_j(r) e^k⋅r
• page 186, Fig. 5.44: a - sign between N_n and 1 is missing. Also several bra-ket signs are missing in the figure; see the fixed figure here
• page 189, Eq. (5.38): B_{k, nm} → B_{k, mn}
• page 189, Eq. (5.39): E_n^at → E_m^at
• page 189, line 3 from the bottom: and a consequently decrease → with a consequent decrease of
• page 203, text line 6: Even worst → Even worse
• page 205, Fig. 5.57a: A minus in front of k_F at the right hand side must be deleted: see the correct figure here
• page 207, Fig. 5.59: a ~ sign before T near the upper right corner is missing. Also five × before 10^-11 are missing; see the fixed figure here
• page 208, text line 6: Wiedmann → Wiedemann
• page 209, line before the bottom one: Wiedmann → Wiedemann
• page 215, footnote line 5: these two observation → these two observations
• page 216, Fig. 5.69: a ~ character is missing at the right of each upright occurrence of N_c in the figure; see the fixed figure here
• page 216, text lines 1: will manifested → manifests
• page 216, text lines 2-5: The hole is bound when this level is empty, as at T = 0. When an electron is promoted from the valence band into this localized level, paying a small energy E_a - E_v, the excess charge of the impurity is removed, and an unbound hole is left in the valence band. → The hole is bound when this localized level is empty and the impurity is electrically neutral. When, at a small energy cost E_a - E_v, an electron is excited from the top of the valence band into the impurity level, there forms an excess charge -q_e at the impurity, and the missing electron in the valence band can be seen as an unbound hole with charge +q_e.
• page 225, Fig. 5.78, caption fourth line: insulator → insulators
• page 234, Eq. (5.86): by comparison with the correct Eq. (4.63), a square is missing around the (exp(x_ks) - 1) denominator
• page 235, Fig. 5.87, K units are missing see the fixed figure here
• page 235, Fig. 5.88, caption third line: The real phonon modes → The sum over the real phonon modes
• page 236, a 4π factor from the polar integration went amiss in an intermediate passage of the derivation in Eq. (5.87). The correct expression is:
• page 238, Fig. 5.89, black curve key: Pb → Theory, Eq. (5.96) ; see the fixed figure here
• page 242, line 4 after the table: in the Debye model
• page 249, line after Eq. (B.20): 6.6260 → 1.0546
• page 253, paragraph 1, line 8: application → applications
• page 256, 7th line from the bottom: E_R-E_L → E_L-E_R
• page 257, Fig. B.2: insert a * near a Δ in the matrix and an absolute value around the Δ near the center-left; see the fixed figure here.
• page 257, caption of Fig. B.2: E_b → E₁ ; E_a → E₂
• page 257, first and second lines of the text: |b> → |E₁> ; |a> → |E₂>
• page 271, after Eq. (B.89): where and → where
• page 273, solution of problem 2.5: 7.177 × 10^-23 A m² → Max z projection of µ: 7 µ_B = 6.492 × 10^-23 A m²; |µ| = √61 µ_B = 7.243 × 10^-23 A m²
• page 273, solution of problem 3.3: kg/s → kg/s²

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