Publisher's Synopsis
The scientific discipline concerned with the investigation and description of particle movements in solids is known as lattice dynamics. It has been characterized in recent years by considerable progress, which was due to the application of new analytical and mathematical methods, and which in turn has provided the basis for a deeper understanding and a better exploitation of the properties of solids.;This book presents the ideas and theories on which modern lattice dynamics are based. In particular, it treats harmonic ordered solids, compositionally and structural disordered solids, anharmonic systems and systems exhibiting structurally phase transitions. Special emphasis is laid on applications of the Green function method, the microscopic theory of lattice dynamics and electron-phonon driven phase transitions.;Thus the book will help everybody working in, or concerned with, the study of solid state physics to become acquainted with recent advances in the field.
