Journey Into Reciprocal Space: A Crystallographer's Perspective

This is a substantially revised and expanded second edition of a book published in the

Concise series. The book has been considerably extended and a number of corrections

have been made to the text and diagrams. A new chapter (7) has also been added, on

distortion mode analysis. Many new diagrams have been added and the topics have been

explained more fully and with more attention to detail. This book starts with the crystallographer's point of view of direct and reciprocal space and then proceeds to develop this in a form suitable for physics applications.

There are many books on condensed matter physics, written from the point of view of theoretical physicists. This book teaches the subject from the crystallographer's perspective. The emphasis will be on the importance of underlying periodicity, which lies at the heart of understanding the solid state, but which is usually glossed over in the standard condensed matter texts.

Key Features

• Provides an understanding of crystal structures and importance in condensed matter physics
• Emphasizes the symmetry aspects of condensed matter physics
• Written in a pedagogical style
• Contains a wide variety of illustrations.

這是一本在「簡明系列」中出版的書籍的大幅修訂和擴充的第二版。這本書在內容和圖表方面進行了大幅擴充和修正。新增了一個新的第七章，介紹了變形模態分析。增加了許多新的圖表，並對主題進行了更詳盡的解釋和更加注重細節。本書從晶體學家的角度出發，介紹了直接空間和倒易空間的概念，然後以適合物理學應用的形式進一步發展。

有很多關於凝聚態物理的書籍，大多是從理論物理學家的角度寫的。而這本書則從晶體學家的角度來教授這個主題。重點在於強調基礎週期性的重要性，這是理解固態物理的核心，但在標準的凝聚態物理教材中通常被忽略。

主要特點：
- 提供對晶體結構及其在凝聚態物理中的重要性的理解
- 強調凝聚態物理的對稱性方面
- 以教學風格撰寫
- 包含各種插圖。