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Introduction to Solid State Physics
Classic textbook in by Charles Kittel

Introduction to Solid State Physics, known colloquially as Kittel, is a classic condensed matter physics textbook written by American physicist Charles Kittel in 1953. The book has been highly influential and has seen widespread adoption; Marvin L. Cohen remarked in 2019 that Kittel's content choices in the original edition played a large role in defining the field of solid-state physics. It was also the first proper textbook covering this new field of physics. The book is published by John Wiley and Sons and, as of 2018, it is in its ninth edition and has been reprinted many times as well as translated into over a dozen languages, including Chinese, French, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, and Turkish. In some later editions, the eighteenth chapter, titled Nanostructures, was written by Paul McEuen. Along with its competitor Ashcroft and Mermin, the book is considered a standard textbook in condensed matter physics.

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Background

Kittel received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1941 under his advisor Gregory Breit.4 Before being promoted to professor of physics at UC Berkeley in 1951, Kittel held several other positions. He worked for the Naval Ordnance Laboratory from 1940 to 1942, was a research physicist in the US Navy until 1945, worked at the Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT from 1945 to 1947 and at Bell Labs from 1947 to 1951, and was a visiting associate professor at UC Berkeley from 1950 until his promotion.5

Henry Ehrenreich has noted that before the first edition of Introduction to Solid State Physics came out in 1953, there were no other textbooks on the subject; rather, the young field's study material was spread across several prominent articles and treatises.6 The field of solid state physics was very new at the time of writing and was defined by only a few treatises that, in the Ehrenreich's view, expounded rather than explained the topics and were not suitable as textbooks.7

Content

The book covers a wide range of topics in solid state physics, including Bloch's theorem, crystals, magnetism, phonons, Fermi gases, magnetic resonance, and surface physics. The chapters are broken into sections that highlight the topics.8

Table of contents (8th ed.)
ChapterTitleTopics9
1Crystal StructureCrystal structure
2Wave Diffraction and the Reciprocal Latticediffraction, Bragg Law, Fourier analysis, reciprocal lattice vectors, Laue equations, Brillouin zone, atomic form factor
3Crystal Binding and Elastic ConstantsVan der Waals force, Ionic crystals, covalent crystals, metals
4Phonons I. Crystal Vibrationsphonons
5Phonons II. Thermal Propertiesphonons
6Free Electron Fermi GasFermi gas, free electron model
7Energy Bandsnearly free electron model, Bloch's theorem, Kronig-Penney model, crystal momentum
8Semiconductor Crystalsband gap, electron holes, semimetals, superlattices
9Fermi Surfaces and MetalsFermi surfaces
10Superconductivitysuperconductivity, BCS theory, superconductors
11Diamagnetism and Paramagnetismdiamagnetism and paramagnetism
12Ferromagnetism and Antiferromagnetismferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism
13Magnetic Resonancemagnetic resonance
14Plasmons, Polaritons, and Polaronsplasmons, polaritons, polarons
15Optical Processes and Excitonsexcitons, Kramers-Kronig relations
16Dielectrics And FerroelectricsMaxwell equations in matter
17Surface and Interface Physicssurface physics
18Nanostructures (by Paul McEuen)electron microscopy, optical microscopy
19Noncrystalline Solidsglasses
20Point Defectslattice defects
21Dislocationsshear strength of crystals, dislocations, hardness of materials
22AlloysHume-Rothery rules, electrical conductivity, Kondo effect

Reception

Marvin L. Cohen and Morrel H. Cohen, in an obituary for Kittel in 2019, remarked that the original book "was not only the dominant text for teaching in the field, it was on the bookshelf of researchers in academia and industry throughout the world",10 though they did not provide any time frame on when it may have been surpassed as the dominant text. They also noted that Kittel's content choices played a large role in defining the field of solid-state physics.11

The book is a classic textbook in the subject and has seen use as a comparative benchmark in the reviews of other books in condensed matter physics.1213 In a 1969 review of another book, Robert G. Chambers noted that there were not many textbooks covering these topics, as "since 1953, Kittel's classic Introduction to Solid State Physics has dominated the field so effectively that few competitors have appeared", noting that the third edition continues that legacy. Before continuing, the reviewer noted that the book was too long for some uses and that less thorough works would be welcome.14

Publication history

Original editions

Reprints

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Foreign translations

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LanguageTitleTranslatorsYearPublisherLocationIdentifiers
SpanishIntroduccion a la física del estado sólido (in Spanish).1965ReverteBarcelonaOCLC 1097704401
HungarianBevezetés a szilárdtestfizikába (in Hungarian).Ferenc Kedves1966Műszaki KiadóBudapestOCLC 895275633
Arabical-Mabādiʼ al-asasiyah fi fizyāʼ al-jawāmid (in Arabic).Mahmūd Mukhtār1968Maktabat al-Nahdah al-Misriyah nushir haḍa al-kitạb maʻah muassasat Frankilīn; Mūassasat Frankilīnal-Qāhirah; al-Qāhirah; New YorkOCLC 18156712
Japanese固体物理学入門. 上 上 (in Japanese).良清 宇野1968丸善TokyoOCLC 673599602
RomanianIntroducere în fizica corpului solid (in Romanian).Anatolie Hristev; Cornelia C. Rusu1972Editura TehnicăBucureştiOCLC 895553854
FrenchIntroduction à la physique de l'état solide (in French) (3rd ed.).Alain Honnart1972DunodParisOCLC 25192813ISBN 978-2-04-005248-5
Japanese固体物理学入門. 上 上 (in Japanese).1974丸善TokyoOCLC 33543405
RussianVvedenie v fiziku tverdogo tela (in Russian).A. A Gusev1978"Nauka", Glav. red. fiziko-matematicheskoĭ lit-ryMoskvaOCLC 22540726
Japanese固体物理学入門. 上 (in Japanese).Ryōsei Uno1978丸善TōkyōOCLC 47405134
Modern GreekEisagōgē stē physikē stereas katastaseōs (in Greek) (5th ed.).C. Papageorgopoulos1976G. PneumatikouAthēnaOCLC 21774626
Chinese固態物理學概論 / Gu tai wu li xue gai lun (in Chinese).翁上林1979臺北市徐氏基金會臺北市OCLC 681443056
SpanishIntroduccion a la física del estado sólido (in Spanish) (2 ed.).Serna Alcaraz, J., Serna Alcaraz, C. R., Piqueras de Noriega, J.1981RevertéBarcelonaOCLC 46327300ISBN 978-84-291-4075-0
CzechÚvod do fyziky pevných látek: celost. vysokošk. učebnice pro stud. matematicko-fyz. a přírodověd. fakult (in Czech).Miloš Matyáš1985AcademiaPrahaOCLC 39420310
JapaneseKotai butsurigaku nyūmon (in Japanese).Uno, Ryōsei., 宇野, 良清1988丸善OCLC 673243413ISBN 978-4-621-03250-3
MalayPengenalan fizik keadaan pepejal (in Malay).Khiruddin Abdullah; Karsono Ahmad Dasuki1995Penerbit Universiti Sains MalaysiaPulau PinangOCLC 850076803ISBN 978-983-861-100-8
Korean고체물리학 = Introduction to solid state physics (in Korean) (Kaejŏng 7-p'an ed.).U, Chong-ch'ŏn., 우종천.1997Pŏmhan Sŏjok Chusik HoesaSŏulOCLC 38038777ISBN 978-89-7129-087-3
Japanese固体物理学入門. 上 上 (in Japanese) (Dai 7-han ed.).Ryōsei Uno, 良清 宇野1998MaruzenTōkyōOCLC 38943576ISBN 978-4-621-04423-0
PolishWstęp do fizyki ciała stałego (in Polish).Wiesława Korczak1999Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWNWarszawaOCLC 41259843ISBN 978-83-01-12706-0
JapaneseKotai butsurigaku nyūmon. jō (in Japanese).Uno, Ryōsei., Tsuya, Noboru., Niizeki, Komajirō., 宇野, 良清, 津屋, 昇2005MaruzenTōkyōOCLC 676541713ISBN 978-4-621-07653-8
GermanEinführung in die Festkörperphysik (in German) (14., überarb. und erw. Aufl ed.).Siegfried Hunklinger2005München Wien OldenbourgMünchenOCLC 163412454ISBN 978-3-486-57723-5
ChineseGu tai wu li xue dao lun (Er ban ed.).Hong, Lian-hui (wu li xue), Liu, Li-ji., Wei, Rong-jun., Kittel, Charles, 1916-, 洪連輝 (物理學), 劉立基.2006Gao liTai bei xian wu gu xiangOCLC 176861489ISBN 978-986-412-348-3
FrenchPhysique de l'état solide: cours et problèmes (in French).Paul McEuen2007DunodParisOCLC 213053150ISBN 978-2-10-049710-2
ItalianIntroduzione alla fisica dello stato solido (in Italian).Ennio Bonetti; Carlo Bottani; Franco Ciccacci2008C.E.A.MilanoOCLC 860462787ISBN 978-88-08-18362-0
TurkishKatı hal fiziğine giriş (in Turkish) (Sekizinci baskıdan çeviri ed.).Gülsen Önengüt; Demir Önengüt; H İbrahim Somyürek2014Palme YayıncılıkAnkaraOCLC 949367956ISBN 978-605-355-225-3
SpanishIntroducción a la fisica del estado sólido (in Spanish).J. Anguilar Peris; J. de la Rubia Pacheco2018RevertéBarcelonaOCLC 1083203050ISBN 978-84-291-4317-1
KoreanGoche mullihak (in Korean).Ujongcheon., Sin, Seongcheol., Yu, Geonho., I, Seongik., I, Jaeil.2019Tekseuteu BukseuSeoulOCLC 1128665713ISBN 978-89-93543-78-0
PolishWstęp do fizyki ciała stałego (in Polish) (Wyd. 5, 3 dodr ed.).Wiesława Korczak; Tadeusz Skośkiewicz; Andrzej Wiśniewski; Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN2012Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWNWarszawaOCLC 803803518ISBN 978-83-01-16804-9

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