Advances in Solid State Physics

A Quantum Dot Single Photon Source....Pages 3-14
Control of Light in Microresonators....Pages 15-26
Numerical Renormalization Group Analysis of Interacting Quantum Dots....Pages 27-38
Few-Particle Effects in Self-Organized Quantum Dots....Pages 39-50
Spectroscopy on Single Dots — Monitoring Carrier Interaction with the Environment....Pages 51-62
Optical Spectroscopy on Single Quantum Dots: Charged Excitons....Pages 63-74
Long-Wavelength Buried-Tunnel-Junction Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers....Pages 75-85
Photon Echo Experiments on Electron-Plasmon Quantum Kinetics in GaAs....Pages 89-100
Phonon and Coulomb Quantum Kinetics for Femtosecond Spectroscopy....Pages 101-112
Quantum Kinetic Effects in Semiconductors Studied via Femtosecond Transmission Measurements....Pages 113-124
Phonon Quantum Kinetics in Spatially Inhomogeneous Systems....Pages 125-137
Propagating Anisotropic Solitons in Active Semiconductor Media....Pages 137-147
Photorefractive Spatial Solitons....Pages 149-160
X-Ray Magneto-Optics....Pages 161-170
Spintronics: Spin Electronics and Optoelectronics in Semiconductors....Pages 173-186
Transport in Quasi One-Dimensional Systems....Pages 187-198
Transport in Nanostructures: A Comparison between Nonequilibrium Green Functions and Density Matrices....Pages 199-210
Spin-Orbit Coupling in Two-Dimensional Electron and Hole Systems....Pages 211-223
Lanthanide-Silicide Films on Silicon Surfaces....Pages 227-238
Development of Texture and Microstructure in MgO Buffer Layers Using Ion-Beam Assisted Pulsed Laser Deposition....Pages 239-249
Modelling of Structure Formation and Mechanical Stresses during Growth of Vapor Deposited Amorphous Thin Films....Pages 251-261
Some Materials Science Aspects of PVD Hard Coatings....Pages 263-274
X-Ray Diffraction and X-Ray Reflectivity Applied to Investigation of Thin Films....Pages 275-286
Three-Dimensional Electric Field Probing of Ferroelectrics on the Nanometer Scale Using Scanning Force Microscopy....Pages 287-298
Terahertz Hilbert Spectroscopy by High- T c Josephson Junctions....Pages 301-313
Discrete Breathers in Condensed Matter....Pages 315-327
Quantum Phase Transitions and Collective Modes in d -Wave Superconductors....Pages 329-341
Physics in Cell Biology: Actin as a Model System for Polymer Physics....Pages 345-356
The Wonderful World of Active Many-Particle Systems....Pages 357-369
Pattern Formation in Dissipative Systems: A Particle Approach....Pages 369-381
Structure Formation by Aggregation: Models and Applications....Pages 381-389
Amorphous Thin Film Growth: Modeling and Pattern Formation....Pages 391-403
Dynamic Processes at the Glass Transition....Pages 405-417
The Trace Formula between Classical and Quantum Mechanics....Pages 421-432
Tunneling in Complex Systems and Periodic Orbits....Pages 433-445
The Gutzwiller Trace Formula for Quantum Systems with Spin....Pages 447-458
Semiclassical Description of Shell Effects in Finite Fermion Systems....Pages 459-471
Quantum Signatures of Typical Chaotic Dynamics....Pages 473-481
The Semiclassical Tool in Complex Physical Systems: Mesoscopics and Decoherence....Pages 483-496
Cohesion and Stability of Metal Nanowires: A Quantum Chaos Approach....Pages 497-511
Magnetochemistry: Compounds and Concepts....Pages 515-532
Lorentz Electron Microscopic Observation of Micromagnetic Configurations in Nanostructured Materials....Pages 533-545
Laser-Control of Ferro- and Antiferromagnetism....Pages 547-555
Spin-Polarized Photoelectron Emission Microscopy of Magnetic Nanostructures....Pages 557-564
Study of Excitations in Structurally Incommensurately Modulated Solids by Means of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance....Pages 565-576
High Resolution X-Ray Detection Using Metallic Magnetic Calorimeters....Pages 577-588
Magnetotransport Properties of Thin Films of Magnetic Perovskites....Pages 589-600
Dynamics of Ferroelectric Domain Walls....Pages 601-612
Magnetic Nanoparticles: The Simulation of Thermodynamic Properties....Pages 613-622
Micromagnetic Simulation of Switching Events....Pages 623-635