Some references for the Surface physics course

This list is permanently under construction. I have arranged references in broad categories. Within each category, they are ordered alphabetically on the name of the first author. All books are available at the SISSA Library unless otherwise noted.

Surface physics (general)

ADA90 Arthur A. Adamson, Physical chemistry of surfaces, 5th Edition, Wiley, 1990 (538.971). Chemists like it heavy. A thick (777 pages) volume covering things you wouldn't normally find in a physics book, often connected with phenomenological macroscopic aspects of various substances of practical interest but not exactly our typical study subjects. Some sections, such as those on capillarity, long-range forces, adhesion and friction, chemisorption and catalysis, are very well done and make this book a highly valuable item in our library.
DES96 Marie-Catharine Desjonquères and Daniel Spanjaard, Concepts in surface physics, 2nd Edition, Springer, 1996 (538.971 DES). This is the best surface physics textbook for the theoretician. Chapter 2 discusses surface thermodynamics and is an excellent reference for the first part of the surface physics course. Chapter 3 presents surface crystallography and a useful survey of experimental techniques. Chapter 4 is an excellent introduction to vibrational properties of surfaces. Chapter 5 discusses rather deeply (240 pages!) the electronic structure of surfaces, and is particularly valuable for us. Chapter 6 discusses models for adsorption phenomena. If the library goes on fire like in Il nome della rosa, take this one with you before escaping.
ISR91 J. N. Israelachvili, Intermolecular and surface forces, 2nd Edition, Academic Press, 1991 (538.971 ISR). Forces, forces, forces everywhere, between all kind of objects, of different physical origins, and their effect in the macroscopic world. A rather unique book roaming with non-chalance between physics, chemistry, materials science and biochemistry while examining intermolecular interactions. About half of the book is surface-related. This is the place to go if you have van der Waals troubles.
MAR95 I. V. Markov, Crystal growth for beginners, World Scientific, 1995 (538.971 MAR). The place to start if you you are concerned with crystal growth, nucleation, epitaxy, and related issues. Well done, easy to read, many experimental results illustrated and commented.
PRU94 M. Prutton, Introduction to surface physics, Oxford University Press, 1994 (538.971). This compact book (196 pages) mostly covers techniques for the determination of surface structure and chemical composition, and covers extremely briefly other topics such as electronic and vibrational states and chemisorption, and even more briefly atom dynamics and surface thermodynamics. But it may be useful.
ZAN88 Andrew Zangwill, Physics at surfaces, Cambridge University Press, 1988 (538.971). Rather comprehensive surface science textbook, easy to read but not particularly deep. Good to get a flavor of unfamiliar subjects. Our course covers only a small subset of the material presented in this book.

Surface thermodynamics

BAK94 Per Bak and Maya Paczuski, Principles of phase transitions in two-dimensional systems, in The Chemical physics of solid surfaces, Volume 7, ed. by D. A. King and D. P. Woodruff, Elsevier, 1994 (538.971 CHE), p. 1. A nice short review on surface phase transitions, discussing Au(110), W(100), incommensurate phases and roughening. A good starting point, particularly for incommensurate phases which do not seem as popular in the literature as the other topics.
BEI87 H. van Beijeren and I. Nolden, The roughening transition, in Structure and dynamics of surfaces II, (ed. by W. Schommers and P. von Blanckenhagen), Springer, 1987 (538.971). One classic review on roughening. With respect to WOR88, it is more focused on flat surfaces (rather than shapes of finite crystals) and discusses the statistical mechanics properties of some lattice models for interfaces.
CRO80 C. A. Croxton, Statistical mechanics of the liquid surface, Wiley, 1980 (538.971 CRO). Quite dated (it predates most computer simulation results), but still a classic. The literature on liquid surfaces is not particularly abundant. Regard this book as a kind of Hansen and McDonald for the surface: strongly based on the classic liquid theory, with all kinds of correlation functions throughout.
DAS89 J. G. Dash, Surface melting, Contemporary Physics 30, 89 (1989). Nice short (12 pages) divulgative article on surface melting written by an experimentalist. A nice introduction to surface melting. If you get caught by this, go on with DAS91 and DAS95.
DAS91 J. G. Dash, Frost heave and the surface melting of ice, in Phase transitions in surface films 2, ed. by H. Taub, G. Torzo, H. J. Lauter, and S. C. Fain, Jr., Plenum Press, 1991 (538.971 PHA), p. 339. The effects of surface melting on road maintenance, agriculture, morphology of Alps, and other stories you can use to impress people when they ask you what are you studying at SISSA. See also DAS95 below.
DAS95 J. G. Dash et al., The premelting of ice and its environmental consequences, Rep. Prog. Phys. 58, 115 (1995). Very broadly covers the topic of surface melting for all materials, then the state of surface and interfacial melting of ice and finally how the films move and what the environmental consequences are.
DIT96 Francesco D. Di Tolla, Erio Tosatti and Furio Ercolessi, Interplay of melting, wetting, overheating and faceting on metal surfaces: theory and simulation, in Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics of condensed matter systems (ed. by K. Binder and G. Ciccotti), SIF, Bologna, 1996. A metal- and simulation-centered view of surface melting and related phenomena. You can pick up here this manuscript, to the detriment of the financial welfare of the Società Italiana di Fisica (don't tell anybody).
DOL87 J. D. Doll and A. F. Voter, Recent developments in the theory of surface diffusion, Ann. Rev. Phys. Chem. 38, 413 (1987); G. Ehrlich, Physics Today, june 1981, 44. These papers (the first written by a theoretician and the second by an experimentalist) are a good starting point to study surface diffusion phenomena.
FRE94 Joost W. M. Frenken and Helene M. van Pinxteren, Surface melting: an experimental overview, in The Chemical physics of solid surfaces, Volume 7, ed. by D. A. King and D. P. Woodruff, Elsevier, 1994 (538.971 CHE), p. 259. This is the latest review on surface melting written by leading experimentalists in the field. Highly recommended. You may also find useful the earlier review VEE88 from the same group.
HER51 Conyers Herring, Some theorems on the free energies of crystal surfaces, Phys. Rev. 82, 87 (1951). What are the effects of the surface free energy polar plot on the energetics and stability of flat surfaces? This classic paper says it all.
KER94 Klaus Kern, Thermal roughening of surfaces: experimental aspects, in The Chemical physics of solid surfaces, Volume 7, ed. by D. A. King and D. P. Woodruff, Elsevier, 1994 (538.971 CHE), p. 292. This is precisely what the title suggests. Focus is on metal surfaces, mostly fcc (110)'s and vicinals. No nonsense, clearly written, effects on diffraction peaks thoroughly explained.
LAP91 J. Lapujoulade and B. Salanon, The roughening transition on surfaces, in Phase transitions in surface films 2, ed. by H. Taub, G. Torzo, H. J. Lauter, and S. C. Fain, Jr., Plenum Press, 1991 (on order), p. 217. A down-to-Earth review of roughening, with an illustration of experimental techniques and several results. A very good starting point to study roughening, in conjunction with BEI87 and WOR88 which offer more theoretical insides.
LEV94 Andrea C. Levi, Roughening, wetting and surface melting: theoretical considerations, in The Chemical physics of solid surfaces, Volume 7, ed. by D. A. King and D. P. Woodruff, Elsevier, 1994 (538.971 CHE), p. 341. Nice theoretical review discussing faceting, reconstruction, deconstruction, preroughening as a function of temperature using statistical mechanics models, and surface melting. Long range forces and role of fluctuations are treated here, as well as the Ginzburg-Landau-type theory with the mechanical analogy.
LYU92 Igor Lyuksyutov, Anton Grigorevich Naumovets, and Valery Leonidovich Pokrovsky, Two-dimensional crystals, Academic Press, 1992 (538.91 LYU). The two-dimensional world has become a vivid reality of our times, state the authors in the introduction, and we flatly agree. This book covers rather comprehensively various structural, statistical and thermodynamics aspects of 2D structures, either free or deposited on a substrate. Among various topics such as adlayers, 2D melting, equilibrium shape, wetting, etc., the book particularly shines in the discussion of incommensurate crystals and soliton structures.
NIJ94 Marcel den Nijs, Roughening, preroughening and reconstruction transitions in crystal surfaces, in The Chemical physics of solid surfaces, Volume 7, ed. by D. A. King and D. P. Woodruff, Elsevier, 1994 (538.971 CHE), p. 115. What's preroughening? Chirality? Conformal invariance? That's the place to go to find answers to such embarassing questions. If you are in a hurry, well, at least have a quick look at Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 2578 (1987).
NOZ89 P. Nozières, Surface melting and crystal shape, J. Phys. France 50, 2541 (1989). Brilliant paper written in a "speculative style" which first sketched the mechanism of faceting induced by the anisotropy of surface melting.
NOZ91 P. Nozières, Shape and growth of crystals, in Solids far from equilibrium (ed. by C. Godreche), Cambridge Univ. Press, 1991 (538.91). Extremely nice and very comprehensive (154 pages) recent review covering thermodynamics of interfaces, steps, kinks, faceting, growth and the roughening transition. Highly recommended.
SAF94 S. A. Safran, Statistical thermodynamics of surfaces, interfaces, and membranes, Addison-Wesley, 1994 (538.971 SAF). An interesting book from a physical chemistry perspective, looking at the thermodynamics of interfaces from a macroscopic point of view and considering many subtle effects like fluctuations of interfaces, electrostatic interactions, etc.
STR92 Katherine J. Strandburg (ed.), Bond-orientational order in condensed matter systems, Springer, 1992 (538.91 BON). Nice book with eight contributions on orientational order-related topics, essentially divided in two categories: (i) 2D melting and hexatic phases; (ii) glasses, quasi-crystals, icosahedral structures. Relevant to some surface physics topics, such as adsorbed monolayers.
VEE88 J. F. van der Veen, B. Pluis and A. W. Denier van der Gon, Surface melting, in Chemistry and physics of solid surfaces VII, ed. by R. Vanselow and R. F. Howe, Springer, 1988 (538.971), p. 455. There is now a more recent experimental review on surface melting (FRE94), but this one is a classic.
WET99 J. S. Wettlaufer, Crystal growth, surface phase transitions and thermomolecular pressure, in Ice physics in the natural environment, NATO/ASI Ser. I, Vol. 56, eds. J. S. Wettlaufer, J. G. Dash and N. Untersteiner, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1999 (on order), p. 39-68. Begins from the perspective of crystal growth and leads from roughening, kinetic roughening to surface melting and premelting dynamics. Very tutorial because of the venue.
WOR88 M. Wortis, Equilibrium crystal shapes and interfacial phase transitions, in Chemistry and Physics of solid surfaces VII, (ed. by R. Vanselow and R.F. Howe), Springer, 1988 (538.971). Classic review article (39 pages) discussing the role of crystal shape as a free energy, the connection between crystal shape and roughening, and the temperature evolution of crystal shapes. An absolute must. But see also BEI87.

Surface structure

BAR94 C. J. Barnes, Adsorbate induced reconstruction of fcc(110) surfaces; and D. P. Woodruff, Adsorbate-induced restructuring of fcc(100) surfaces, in The Chemical physics of solid surfaces, Volume 7, ed. by D. A. King and D. P. Woodruff, Elsevier, 1994 (538.971 CHE), p. 501 and 465. Adsorbates do nasty things to fcc surfaces.
CAM94 Juan Carlos Campuzano, The Au(110) (1x2) <=> (1x1) phase transition, in The Chemical physics of solid surfaces, Volume 7, ed. by D. A. King and D. P. Woodruff, Elsevier, 1994 (538.971 CHE), p. 75. Go here for the famous Au(110) deconstruction (see also related chapters in BAK94, KER94, and VIL91).
JUP94 J. Jupille and D. A. King, Instabilities and adsorbate restructuring at W(100), in The Chemical physics of solid surfaces, Volume 7, ed. by D. A. King and D. P. Woodruff, Elsevier, 1994 (538.971 CHE), p. 35. Go here for the famous W(100) reconstruction (see also related chapter in BAK94).
TOS91 Erio Tosatti and Furio Ercolessi, Surface reconstruction of noble metals: models and consequences, Modern Physics Letters B 5, 413 (1991). Measly review of people claiming that noble metal reconstructions can be described using balls and springs.
VIL91 J. Villain, J. L. Rouviere, and I. Vilfan, Phenomenology of surface reconstruction, in Phase transitions in surface films 2, ed. by H. Taub, G. Torzo, H. J. Lauter, and S. C. Fain, Jr., Plenum Press, 1991 (on order), p. 201. A brief survey of surface reconstructions in semiconductors and metals. A particular attention is given to the statistical mechanics of Au(110).

Miscellaneous

CAR90 Anders E. Carlsson, Solid State Physics 43, 1 (1990). Not particularly surface-related, but if you are puzzled about how empirical potentials for simulation are constructed or how they work, this is a good place to start.
GAR95 Barbara J. Garrison and Deepak Srivastava, Potential energy surfaces for chemical reactions at solid surfaces, Ann. Rev. of Phys. Chem. 46, 373 (1995). A review article discussing specifically the non-trivial issue of modelling chemical reactions at surfaces using potentials.
PET95 David G. Pettifor, Bonding and structure of molecules and solids, Oxford University Press, 1995 (538.9 PET). And if you want to go deeper in the issue of interatomic interactions, here is a recent and very well done book. Again, this is is a general text not particularly related to surfaces.

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