Filling the gap for comprehensive coverage of the realistic fundamentals and approaches needed to perform cutting-edge research on mesoscopic systems, this textbook allows advanced students to acquire and use the skills at a highly technical, research-qualifying level. Starting with a brief refresher to get all readers on an equal footing, the text moves on to a broad selection of advanced topics, backed by problems with solutions for use in classrooms as well as for self-study. Written by authors with research and teaching backgrounds from eminent institutions and based on a tried-and-tested lecture, this is a must-have for researchers, research students and instructors involved with semiconductor junctions, nanostructures and thin film systems.
Author(s): Godfrey Gumbs, Danhong Huang
Publisher: Wiley-VCH
Year: 2011
Language: English
Pages: XII+380
Part I: Linear Response of Low Dimensional Quantum Systems
1 Introduction
2 The Kubo–Greenwood Linear Response Theory
3 Feynman Diagrammatic Expansion
4 Plasmon Excitations in Mesoscopic
5 The Surface Response Function, Energy Loss and Plasma Instability
6 The Rashba Spin–Orbit Interaction in 2DEG
7 Electrical Conductivity: the Kubo and Landauer–Büttiker Formulas
8 Nonlocal Conductivity for a Spin-Split Two-Dimensional Electron Liquid
9 Integer Quantum Hall Effect
10 Fractional Quantum Hall Effect
11 Quantized Adiabatic Charge Transport in 2D Electron Systems and Nanotubes
12 Graphene
13 Semiclassical Theory for Linear Transport of Electrons
Part II: Nonlinear Response of Low Dimensional Quantum Systems
14 Theory for Nonlinear Electron Transport
15 Spontaneous and Stimulated Nonlinear Wave Mixing of Multiexcitons
16 Probing Excitons and Biexcitons in Coupled QDs by Coherent Optical Spectroscopy
17 Non-thermal Distribution of Hot Electrons
