Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of principal symbols
- 1 Radiation field
- 2 Quantum mechanics
- 3 Interaction of radiation with matter
- 4 Electronic vs. nuclear motions and the optical spectra of localized electrons in solids
- 5 Lattice vibrations
- 6 Electric susceptibility and dielectric constant
- 7 One-electron states in solids
- 8 Excitons
- 9 Polaron and the self-trapped state
- 10 Optical spectra of exciton in the phonon field Overview
- 11 Higher-order optical processes
- 12 Inner-shell excitation
- 13 Photo-induced structural changes
- 14 Light, matter and life (A scenario for the origin of life and its evolution)
- Appendix 1 Derivation of exciton Hamiltonian from many-body Hamiltonian
- Appendix 2 Transient spectra for second-order optical processes
- References (by chapter)
- Subject index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of principal symbols
- 1 Radiation field
- 2 Quantum mechanics
- 3 Interaction of radiation with matter
- 4 Electronic vs. nuclear motions and the optical spectra of localized electrons in solids
- 5 Lattice vibrations
- 6 Electric susceptibility and dielectric constant
- 7 One-electron states in solids
- 8 Excitons
- 9 Polaron and the self-trapped state
- 10 Optical spectra of exciton in the phonon field Overview
- 11 Higher-order optical processes
- 12 Inner-shell excitation
- 13 Photo-induced structural changes
- 14 Light, matter and life (A scenario for the origin of life and its evolution)
- Appendix 1 Derivation of exciton Hamiltonian from many-body Hamiltonian
- Appendix 2 Transient spectra for second-order optical processes
- References (by chapter)
- Subject index
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- Optical Processes in Solids , pp. i - ivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2003