Full Description
Knowledge of the excitation characteristics of matter is decisive for the descriptions of a variety of dynamical processes, which are of significant technological interest. E.g. transport properties and the optical response are controlled by the excitation spectrum. This self--contained work is a coherent presentation of the quantum theory of correlated few--particle excitations in electronic systems. It begins with a compact resume of the quantum mechanics of single particle excitations. Particular emphasis is put on Green function methods, which offer a natural tool to unravel the relations between the physics of small and large electronic systems. The book contains explicit expressions for the Coulomb Green function of two charge particles and a generalization to three--body systems. Techniques for the many--body Green function of finite systems are introduced and some explicit calculations of the Green functions are given. Concrete examples are provided and the theories are contrasted with experimental data, when available. A complimentary volume presents an up--to--date selection of applications of the developed concepts and a comparison with available experiments is made
Contents
Part I.1. Introduction and basic concepts.2. Two-particle Coulomb systems.3. Resonant and non-resonant two-particle excitations.4. Multi-particle excited states in finite electronic systems.5. Excitations in extended electronic systems.Part II.6.Correlation spectroscopy of atomic systems.7. 1 two-electron spectroscopy using charged particles.8. 2 Electron-electron correlations by photons and neutrons.9. Correlated excitation imaging in large molecules and clusters.10. 1 Role of collective motion.11. Mapping of electronic correlation in solids and surfaces.12. Appendices.
