Elementary Excitations in Solids, Molecules, and Atom: Part B

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Electronic Influence on Lattice Dynamics....Pages 1-23
Phonon Calculations in Metals and Insulators....Pages 25-42
Excitations in Superfluid Helium....Pages 43-77
Hydrodynamic Excitations in Anharmonic Crystals and in Ferromagnets....Pages 79-92
Electron Interaction with Surface Modes....Pages 93-130
Electronic Transitions and Relaxation Phenomena in Polarons....Pages 131-197
The Self-Energy Problem in Quantum Dielectrics....Pages 199-211
Electrons and Phonons in Narrow Gap Semiconductors....Pages 213-243
Light Scattering in Solids....Pages 245-267
Resonant Raman Scattering in Semiconductors....Pages 269-291
Formalism of an Ab Initio Calculation of Phonon Dispersion Curves in the Hartree-Fock Approximation....Pages 293-294
Two-Phonon Deformation Potentials, Second Order Raman Scattering, and Superconductivity in Degenerate Semiconductors....Pages 295-315
Temperature Dependence of Free Polaron Optical Absorption....Pages 317-324
Peierls-Frohlich Instability and Superconductivity in Linear Chain Crystals....Pages 325-332
The Absorption and the Ground State Energy of Free Polarons....Pages 333-342
A Review of the Experimental Properties of Insulating Solids....Pages 343-350
Optical Absorption and Photoemission Experiments on Metals and Alloys....Pages 351-365
Back Matter....Pages 367-385