Tous les ebooks de la collection "Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences" - Springer

Superconductivity and Electromagnetism

Teruo Matsushita

This book introduces readers to the characteristic features of electromagnetic phenomena in superconductivity. It first demonstrates not only that the diamagnetism in the superconductivity complies with Maxwell’s theory, which was formulated before the discovery of...

Semiconductor Nanophotonics

Axel Hoffmann , Michael Kneissl , Andreas Knorr , Stephan Reitzenstein

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art in the development of semiconductor nanostructures and nanophotonic devices. It covers epitaxial growth processes for GaAs- and GaN-based quantum dots and quantum wells, describes the fundamental...

Strong Fermion Interactions in Fractional Quantum Hall States

Shashikant Mulay , John J. Quinn , Mark Shattuck

This monograph presents an intuitive theory of trial wave functions for strongly interacting fermions in fractional quantum Hall states. The correlation functions for the proposed fermion interactions follow a novel algebraic approach that harnesses the classical theory...

Topological Matter

Dario Bercioux , Jérôme Cayssol , M. Reyes Calvo , Maia G. Vergniory

This book covers basic and advanced aspects in the field of Topological Matter. The chapters are based on the lectures presented during the Topological Matter School 2017. It provides graduate level content introducing the basic concepts of the field, including an...

Topology in Magnetism

Vincent Cros , Axel Hoffmann , Jiadong Zang

This book presents both experimental and theoretical aspects of topology in magnetism. It first discusses how the topology in real space is relevant for a variety of magnetic spin structures, including domain walls, vortices, skyrmions, and dynamic excitations, and then...

Out-of-Equilibrium Physics of Correlated Electron Systems

Roberta Citro , Ferdinando Mancini

This book is a wide-ranging survey of the physics of out-of-equilibrium systems of correlated electrons, ranging from the theoretical, to the numerical, computational and experimental aspects. It starts from basic approaches to non-equilibrium physics, such as the...

The Role of Topology in Materials

Sanju Gupta , Avadh Saxena

This book presents the most important advances in the class of topological materials and discusses the topological characterization, modeling and metrology of materials. Further, it addresses currently emerging characterization techniques such as optical and acoustic,...

Spin Physics in Semiconductors

Mikhail I. Dyakonov

This book offers an extensive introduction to the extremely rich and intriguing field of spin-related phenomena in semiconductors. In this second edition, all chapters have been updated to include the latest experimental and theoretical research. Furthermore, it covers...

Topological Insulators

Shun-Qing Shen

This new edition presents a unified description of these insulators from one to three dimensions based on the modified Dirac equation. It derives a series of solutions of the bound states near the boundary, and describes the current status of these solutions. Readers...

The Iron Pnictide Superconductors

Roberta Citro , Ferdinando Mancini

This book covers different aspects of the physics of iron-based superconductors ranging from the theoretical, the numerical and computational to the experimental ones. It starts from the basic theory modeling many-body physics in Fe-superconductors and other...

Quantum Plasmonics

Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi , Francisco Garcia-Vidal , Luis Martin-Moreno

This book presents the latest results of quantum properties of light in the nanostructured environment supporting surface plasmons, including waveguide quantum electrodynamics, quantum emitters, strong-coupling phenomena and lasing in plasmonic structures. Different...

Theory of Quantum Transport at Nanoscale

Dmitry Ryndyk

This book is an introduction to a rapidly developing field of modern theoretical physics – the theory of quantum transport at nanoscale. The theoretical methods considered in the book are in the basis of our understanding of charge, spin and heat transport in...

Transport Spectroscopy of Confined Fractional Quantum Hall Systems

Stephan Baer , Klaus Ensslin

This book provides an overview of recent developments in experiments probing the fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states of the second Landau level, especially the \nu=5/2 state. It summarizes the state-of-the-art understanding of these FQH states. It furthermore describes...

Many-Body Approach to Electronic Excitations

Friedhelm Bechstedt

The many-body-theoretical basis and applications of theoretical spectroscopy of condensed matter, e.g. crystals, nanosystems, and molecules are unified in one advanced text for readers from graduate students to active researchers in the field.The theory is developed...

Theory of Heavy-Fermion Compounds

Miron Ya. Amusia , Konstantin G. Popov , Vasily R. Shaginyan , Vladimir A. Stephanovich

This book explains modern and interesting physics in heavy-fermion (HF) compounds to graduate students and researchers in condensed matter physics. It presents a theory of heavy-fermion (HF) compounds such as HF metals, quantum spin liquids, quasicrystals and...

Strongly Correlated Systems

Adolfo Avella , Ferdinando Mancini

The continuous evolution and development of experimental techniques is at the basis of any fundamental achievement in modern physics. Strongly correlated systems (SCS), more than any other, need to be investigated through the greatest variety of experimental techniques...

Strongly Correlated Systems

Adolfo Avella , Ferdinando Mancini

This volume presents, for the very first time, an exhaustive collection of those modern numerical methods specifically tailored for the analysis of Strongly Correlated Systems. Many novel materials, with functional properties emerging from macroscopic quantum behaviors...

Topological Insulators

Shun-Qing Shen

Topological insulators are insulating in the bulk, but process metallic states present around its boundary owing to the topological origin of the band structure. The metallic edge or surface states are immune to weak disorder or impurities, and robust against the...

Green's Functions in Quantum Physics

Eleftherios N. Economou

Physical Acoustics in the Solid State

Bruno Lüthi

Suitable for researchers and graduate students in physics and material science, "Physical Acoustics in the Solid State" reviews the modern aspects in the field, including many experimental results, especially those involving ultrasonics. Practically all fields of...