Spectroscopic Probes of Quantum Matter (eBook)

An Introduction

Christophe Berthod (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
277 Seiten
Institute of Physics Publishing (Verlag)
978-0-7503-1741-2 (ISBN)

Infos

This
graduate-level book explains how the spectroscopic probes, which examine excitations
in various phases of matter, are modeled within the quantum theory and how
their outcome is interpreted as the collective response of many interacting
particles in thermal equilibrium. Practical examples are accompanied by computer
codes to support the presentation.

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Contemporary understanding of matter is based on the quantum theory, which
envisions large collections of particles interacting with each other and with
their environment. Spectroscopic probes based, for instance, on light, change the
environment and trigger a collective response of the particles. This book, based
on a graduate-level course, explains the underpinnings of many-body quantum
theory and exposes the main methodologies for calculations, before describing,
with the support of practical examples and short computer codes, how the
spectroscopic techniques are represented within the theory and how their
outcome is interpreted as a probe of the correlations between quantum
particles.

Autor

Christophe Berthod is a senior lecturer in the Department of Quantum Matter Physics at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. He obtained his PhD in physics in 1998 and specializes in research in condensed-matter physics and computational physics.

Inhalt

Bibliography

Conventions and
notations

Useful mathematical
formula

I
Introduction

1
Digest of many-body theory

2
Elements of quantum mechanics

3
Correlation functions: definitions and properties

4
Imaginary-time formalism

5
Calculating correlation functions

6
Response of matter to applied fields

II
Spectroscopic probes

7
External photoemission

8
Electrical resistivity

9
Electron tunneling

10
Neutron scattering

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.11.2018
• Reihe/Serie: IOP Expanding Physics
• Reihe/Serie: ISSN
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• Zusatzinfo: With figures in colour and black and white
• Verlagsort: Bristol
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: correlated systems • Correlation Functions • many-body quantum • Many-Particle Theory, Condensed Matter, Many Body Theory, spectroscopy, Quantum Theory • neutron scattering • photo-emission • quantum tunnelling
• ISBN-10: 0-7503-1741-8 / 0750317418
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7503-1741-2 / 9780750317412