Recommended literature

General

  • N.W. Ashcoft/Mermin: Solid State Physics
  • S. Hunklinger: Festkörperphysik
  • C. Kittel: Introduction to Solid State Physics
  • R. Gross, A. Marx: Festkörperphysik

 

General - more sophisticated (but really good stuff!)

  • D.I. Khomskii: Basic Aspects of the Quantum Theory of Solids: Order and Elementary Excitations (Table of contents)
  • P. Fazekas: Lecture notes on electron correlation and magnetism
  • J. Ziman: Principles of the theory of solids

 

Electronic properties and bands:

  • J. Singleton: Band theory and electronic properties of solids

 

Superconductivity

  • Buckel/Kleiner: Supraleitung (the textbook on SC)
  • Annett: Supraleitung, Suprafluidität und Kondensate

 

Magnetism

  • S. Blundell: Magnetism in Condensed Matter (good introduction)
  • W. Nolting, A. Ramakanth: Quantum Theory of Magnetism (theory)
  • N. Majlis: The Quantum Theory of Magnetism (theory)
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