Full Description
The book covers the broad field of solid-state physics from the dense phases of hydrogen, through low-dimensional solids, quantum dots and nanostructures to superconductors. It provides a professional overview of solid-state physics as a real bridge between quantum mechanics and the latest technological achievements.
Contents
Theory of dense hydrogen: Proton pairing.- Quantum dots.- On the electronic properties of quantum dots.- Quantum single electron transistor.- At the limit of device miniaturization.- Classical and quantum transport calculations for elastically scattered free electron gases in 2D nanostructures when B=0.- Kinetic confinement of electrons in modulated semiconductor structures.- The scaling theory of the integer quantum hall effect.- Single particle versus collective electronic excitations.- Review of the physics of high-temperature superconductors.- Charge dynamics in cuprate superconductors.- Coherent precession and spin superfluidity in 3He.- Diamagnetic domains in beryllium as seen by muon spin rotation spectroscopy.- Growth instabilities in M.B.E..- Scaling behaviour in submonolayer film growth — Beyond mean field theory.- Low-dimensional correlated particle systems: Exact results for groundstate and thermodynamic quantities.- Critical behavior of weakly-disordered anisotropic systems in two dimensions.- Critical behaviour in non-integer dimension.- The peierls instability and the flux phase problem.- Fully and partially dressed states in quantum field theory and in solid state physics.- Density functional theory and density matrices.- Dissipative quantum mechanics. Metriplectic dynamics in action.- Quantum analysis and exponential product formulas.- Coherent anomaly method and its applications to critical phenomena.
