Collective Excitations in Solids [E-Book] / edited by Baldassare Di Bartolo.
This book presents an ac count of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on "Collective Excitations in Solids," held in Erice, Italy, from June 15 to June 29, 1981. This meeting was organized by the International School of Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy of the "Ettore Majorana" Cen...
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Personal Name(s): | Bartolo, Baldassare Di, editor |
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Boston, MA :
Springer,
1983
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XXII, 716 p. 96 illus. online resource. |
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englisch |
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9781468488784 |
DOI: |
10.1007/978-1-4684-8878-4 |
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NATO Advanced Science Institute Series ;
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- Quantum Mechanical Description of Solids
- Abstract
- I. Introduction
- II. Adiabatic Approximation
- III. HartreeFock Approximation
- IV. Electronic Bands in Crystals
- V. Lattice Dynamics as Collective Excitations: Phonons
- VI. Collective Excitations of Electrons: Plasmons
- VII. Extrinsic States
- VIII. Some Effects of Applied Stress
- IX. Conclusions
- References
- to Collective Excitations in Solids
- Abstract
- I. Interactions in a TwoLevel System
- II. Collective Excitations
- III. Interaction of Radiation with Collective Excitations
- IV. Propagation of Radiation in a Dispersive Medium
- V. Examples of Collective Excitations
- References
- Quasi-Particles and Excitons: Models of Structure and Correlation
- Abstract
- I. Introduction
- II. Basic Concepts of Quantum Field Theory
- III. Models
- IV. Conclusions
- References
- Coherent Wavepackets of Phonons
- Abstract
- I. OneDimensional Elastic Line
- II. Beyond the Model of a Chain of Masses and Springs
- III. Motion of a Pulse in the Classical Limit
- IV. Motion of a Pulse in Quantum Mechanics
- V. Birth and Death of a Pulse
- References
- Appendix A: The Coherent States
- Appendix B: The Poisson Distribution
- References
- to Exciton Physics
- Abstract
- I. Introduction
- II. Electronic Structure
- III. Interactions with Phonons
- IV. Interactions with Photons
- V. Kinetics and Dynamics at Low and Intermediate Densities
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Excitons in Semiconductors
- Abstract
- I. Basic Properties of the Free Exciton
- II. Introduction to Bound Excitons
- III. Bound Exciton Satellite Structure
- IV. High Excitation Intensity Effects
- References
- Excitons in Insulators
- Abstract
- I. Introduction
- II. Theoretical and Experimental Background
- III. Excitons in Alkali Halides
- IV. Excitons in Rare Gas Solids
- V. Concluding Remarks
- References
- Inelastic Scattering of Fast Particles by Plasmons
- Abstract
- I. Introduction
- II. Bulk and Surface Plasmon Hamiltonian
- III. Charge Particle Spectroscopies of Plasmons
- References
- From Magnons to Solitons
- Abstract
- I. Introduction
- II. Magnons
- III. MagnonMagnon Forces
- IV. TwoMagnon Bound States
- V. ManyBody Scattering Theory
- VI. XY Model: A Model Antiferromagnet
- VII. Heisenberg Antiferromagnet: Ground State
- VIII. Some Consequences
- IX. Effects of Surfaces on Magnons
- X. Magnons vs. Solitons
- XI. Soliton Solutions
- References
- Quasiparticles in Magnetic Metals
- Abstract
- I. Introduction
- II. Low Density Electron Gas
- III. Criterion for Magnetic Ground State
- IV. Quasiparticles
- V. Nearly HalfFilled Band: Nagaoka’s Theory
- VI. Two or More Magnetic SubBands
- VII. Magnons in Metals
- VIII. Antiferromagnetism in Metals
- Polaritons
- Abstract
- I. Introduction
- II. Bulk Polariton Linear Response
- III. Experiments on Bulk Polaritons
- IV. Surface Polariton Linear Response
- V. Experiments on Surface Polaritons
- VI. Conclusion
- References 49
- Polarons
- Abstract
- I. Introduction
- II. The LandauPekar StrongCoupling Theory
- III. FieldTheory Formalism, Fröhlich’s Hamiltonian and WeakCoupling Theory
- IV. Other Methods for Large (Fröhlich) Polarons
- V. Small Polarons and SelfTrapping
- References
- Long Seminars
- Surface Collective Excitations
- Collective Excitations in Concentrated Mn2+ Systems: Spectral Properties
- Optical Dynamics in Concentrated Mn2+ Systems
- Spectroscopy of Stoichiometric Laser Materials: Excitons or Incoherent Transfers?
- Exciton-Hole Droplets in Semiconductors
- Excitons and Plasmons: Collective Excitations in Semiconductors
- Picosecond Exciton Phenomena in Chlorophyll Complexes (Abstract only)
- Bose-Einstein Statics in Exciton Systems
- Small Polarons in Biological Systems (Abstract only)
- Short Seminars (Abstracts)
- Perspectives of Free Electron Lasers in Solids
- The Dispersion Curves of Excitonic Polaritons and Their Distortion with Increasing Density
- Motion of a Magnon Soliton About a Phonon Soliton in a Onedimensional Ferromagnet
- Interconfiguration Fluctuations
- Luminescence of Mn2+ IN RbMnxMg1xF3
- Effect of Hydrostatic Pressure on the Luminescence Spectra of the S2 Centre and the EPR of This S2 Centre for the Crystal Scapolite
- On the Calculation of Polaron Wavefunction in the Static Electronlattice Coupling
- Semiconductor Surface Inversion Layers and Their Collective Modes
- Concluding Article
- Present Trends in Collective Excitations in Solids
- Contributors.