Spectroscopic Probes of Quantum Matter
- Dr Christophe Berthod
- November 2018
Description
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.
About Editors
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.
Table of Contents
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
Bibliographic
Hardback ISBN: 9780750317399
Ebook ISBN: 9780750317412
DOI: 10.1088/978-0-7503-1741-2
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing