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Electron Scattering in Solid Matter

A Theoretical and Computational Treatise

  • Book
  • © 2005

Overview

  • With a foreword by Walter Kohn (Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1998)
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences (SSSOL, volume 147)

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Table of contents (26 chapters)

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About this book

Addressing graduate students and researchers, this book gives a very detailed theoretical and computational description of multiple scattering in solid matter. Particular emphasis is placed on solids with reduced dimensions, on full potential approaches and on relativistic treatments. For the first time approaches such as the screened Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker method are reviewed, considering all formal steps such as single-site scattering, structure constants and screening transformations, and also the numerical point of view. Furthermore, a very general approach is presented for solving the Poisson equation, needed within density functional theory in order to achieve self-consistency. Special chapters are devoted to the Coherent Potential Approximation and to the Embedded Cluster Method, used, for example, for describing nanostructured matter in real space. In a final chapter, physical properties related to the (single-particle) Green's function, such as magnetic anisotropies, interlayer exchange coupling, electric and magneto-optical transport and spin-waves, serve to illustrate the usefulness of the methods described.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Center for Computational Materials Science, Technical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Jan Zabloudil, Robert Hammerling, Peter Weinberger

  • Department of Theoretical Physics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary

    Laszlo Szunyogh

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