Ebook: Progress in Electron Properties of Solids: Festschrift in honour of Franco Bassani

This volume on the novelties in the electronic properties of solids appears in occasion of Franco Bassani sixtieth birthday, and is dedicated to honour a scientific activity which has contributed so much of the development of this very active area of research. It is re­ markable that this book can cover so large a part of the current research on electronic properties of solids by contributions from Bassani's former students, collaborators at different stages of his scientific life, and physicists from all over the world who have been in close scientific relationship with him. A personal flavour therefore accompanies a number of the papers of this volume, which are both up-to-date reports on present research and original recollections of the early events of modern solid state physics. The volume begins with a few contributions dealing with theoretical procedures for electronic energy levels, a primary step toward the interpretation of structural and optical properties of extended and confined systems. Other papers concern the interacting state of electrons with light (polaritons) and the effect of the coupling of electrons with lattice vibrations, with emphasis on the thermal behaviour of the electron levels and on such experimental procedures as piezospectroscopy. Electron-lattice interaction in external magnetic field and transport-related properties due to high light excitation are also con­ sidered. The impact of synchroton radiation on condensed matter spectroscopy is dis­ cussed in a topical contribution, and optical measurements are presented for extended and impurity levels.

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Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-2
Theory of Bands, Bonds, and Optical Properties of Semiconductors....Pages 3-9
Atomic Pseudo-Hamiltonians for Quantum Monte Carlo....Pages 11-25
On the Electronic and Structural Properties of Small Clusters....Pages 27-40
ABC Theory vs. ABC-Free Theory of Exciton Polariton....Pages 41-49
Temperature Dependence of the Band Structure of Semiconductors: Electron-Phonon Interaction....Pages 51-64
Piezospectroscopy: Electronic States and Phonons in Semiconductors and Insulators....Pages 65-98
Polaronic Effects on Free and Harmonically Bound Electrons in Magnetic Field....Pages 99-110
Spectroscopy with Synchrotron Radiation....Pages 111-124
Theoretical Studies of the Transient Response of Highly Photoexcited Carriers in Semiconductors....Pages 125-138
Optical Spectroscopy in Transition-Metal Dichalcogenides....Pages 139-151
Exciton Interactions....Pages 153-159
Exciton Interactions....Pages 161-173
The Spectral Manifestation of Weakly Coupled Mixed States of Excitons and Lattice Deformation....Pages 175-183
Two-Particle Coulomb Systems in a Magnetic Field....Pages 185-195
A Simple Approach for Estimating Auger Decay Rates and Resonance Energies in Molecules....Pages 197-209
Ordering Transitions Induced by Coulomb Interactions....Pages 211-220
Pinned Charge Density Waves as Models of Glassy Behavior....Pages 221-238
Renormalized Boltzmann Equation and Fermi Liquid Theory for Strongly Disordered Electron Systems....Pages 239-246
Nonlinear Magnetooptics in Solids....Pages 247-253
Multiphoton Spectroscopy in Large Gap Materials....Pages 255-274
Photoemission Studies of High Temperature Superconductors....Pages 275-290
Understanding the Oxide Superconductors....Pages 291-301
Optical Properties of Semiconductor Surfaces....Pages 303-304
Plasmons of a Single Graphite Layer Floating on a Metal Surface....Pages 305-318
Electronic States in Semiconductor Superlattices and Quantum Wells....Pages 319-329
Electronic States and Optical Transitions in Quantum Wells....Pages 331-336
A Self Energy Approach for Optical Transition Energies in Semiconductors and Superlattices....Pages 337-352
Three-Wave Mixing Via Subband Levels in Inversion Layers and in Quantum Wells....Pages 353-372
Electronic Spectra of Solids, Impurities and Superstructures with the Recursion and Renormalization Methods....Pages 373-383
Core Excitons in Strained-Layer Superlattices....Pages 385-393
Quantum Harmonic Oscillator in a Magnetic Field: An Example of Holomorphic Representation....Pages 395-408
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