Die Kunst of Phonons: Lectures from the Winter School of Theoretical Physics

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Recent Progress in Using the Effective Potential Method....Pages 1-13
Momentum and Quasimomentum in the Physics of Condensed Matter....Pages 15-32
Partial Frequency Distribution Functions and the Problem of the Localization of Atomic Vibrations in Real Layered and Multilayered Crystals....Pages 33-46
Selfconsistent Approach to Phonon Localization in Harmonic Crystals with Defects....Pages 47-50
Bulk Phonon-Polaritons in Reststrahlen Region of A3B5 Compound Superlattice....Pages 51-53
Thermal Phonon Imaging....Pages 55-71
Phonon Imaging at Ultrasonic Frequencies: The Dynamic Response on Anisotropic Solids....Pages 73-85
Phonon Patterns of Cubic Crystal Monte Carlo Simulation Program....Pages 87-97
Surface Phonon Focusing at Ultrasonic Frequencies....Pages 99-104
Time-Dependent Specific Heat of Crystals and Glasses at Low Temperatures....Pages 105-112
Optical Studies of Nonequilibrium Phonons in Semiconductors....Pages 113-128
Monte-Carlo Calculated Nonequilibrium Phonon Pulses in GaAs....Pages 129-134
Influence of Sample Temperature and Pumping Intensity on the Processes of Hot Spot Formation and Degradation....Pages 135-138
Ballistic Phonon Propagation in At-Cut Quartz....Pages 139-142
Effect of Resonant Scattering by Paramagnetic Centers on the Propagation of Nonequilibrium Phonons....Pages 143-151
Singularities of the Heat Conductivity in Thin Dielectric Slabs....Pages 153-158
Acoustic Phonon Interaction with Two-Dimensional Electron and Hole Systems....Pages 159-187
Phonon Emission and Absorption Experiments in the Quantum-Hall Regime....Pages 189-200
Phonon Measurements of the Energy Gap in the Fractional Quantum Hall State....Pages 201-203
Response of Two-Dimensional Electron Gas to Pulses of a Phonon Field....Pages 205-210
Phonon-Drag Effect in 1-Dimensional Electron Gases....Pages 211-217
The Thermoelectric Behaviour of two Dimensional Electron and Hole Gases and Quantum Point Contacts....Pages 219-232
Energy Relaxation via Acoustic Phonons in 2D and id Electron Systems....Pages 233-241
A Theory op the Suppression of the Electron-Phonon Interaction....Pages 243-250
Carrier Capture by Quantum Wells via 3D→2D and 2D→2D Channels....Pages 251-261
Application of Phonon Physics to Cryogenic Detectors....Pages 263-295
Cryogenic Particle Detectors: Phonon Physics in Niobium....Pages 297-319
Phonon Scattering and Heat Transfer in Simple Molecular Crystals....Pages 321-332
Fullerenes....Pages 333-352
Theoretical Investigations of the Orientational Ordering Transition in Solid C60....Pages 353-363
Dynamics Close to the Glass Transition....Pages 365-380
The Surface Impedance and the Slab Conduchvity of Metals Beyond the Relaxation Time Approximation....Pages 381-397
Linear Thermoelastic Generation of Ultrasound in Metals....Pages 399-405
Electron-Phonon Coupling in Strongly Correlated Electron Systems....Pages 407-413
Magnetophonon Resonances on Three Phonon Modes in ZNXCDYHG1-X-Yte Epitaxial Layers....Pages 415-418
A Note on the Measurement of the Intersubband Relaxation Time by an Infrared Bleaching Technique....Pages 419-423
Back Matter....Pages 426-432