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Excitons and Cooper Pairs: Two Composite Bosons in Many-Body Physics
Tag	Description
020	$a9780191815287
082	$a530.41 (DDC 23)
099	$aOnline Resource : Oxford Scholarship Online
100	$aCombescot, Monique
245	$aExcitons and Cooper Pairs$bTwo Composite Bosons in Many-Body Physics$h[Ebook]$cMonique Combescot and Shiue-Yuan Shiau
260	$aOxford, UK$bOxford University Press$c2016
300	$a1 online resource
440	$aOxford graduate texts.
500	$aPrint publication date: 2015. - Print ISBN-13: 9780198753735. - Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: March 2016
520	$aThis book bridges the gap between two major fields in condensed matter physics: semiconductors and superconductors. Through an original perspective that their key particles, excitons and Cooper pairs, are composite bosons (cobosons), the book raises fundamental questions: how does the Pauli exclusion principle affect the fermionic components of bosonic particles at the microscopic level, and how does this appear in the coboson many-body physics at the macroscopic level? What insights would the study of Wannier excitons, Frenkel excitons, and Cooper pairs provide about the “bosonic condensation” of composite bosons and how it differs from the Bose-Einstein condensation of elementary bosons? The book starts from a solid mathematical and physical foundation to derive excitons and Cooper pairs and introduces Shiva diagrams as a graphic support to grasp the many-body physics induced by fermion exchange in the absence of fermion-fermion interaction–a mechanism not visualized in standard Feynman diagrams. The book also covers composite bosons related to excitons: trions, biexcitons, and polaritons. The last part of the book is devoted to composite boson condensation, from the prototypical Bose-Einstein condensation of free elementary bosons and the consequence of interaction, to interacting electrons in the dense regime, to electron-hole pairs in the dense and dilute regimes. Advanced undergraduate and graduate students in physics, with no prior background, will benefit from this book, as numerous appendices provide the materials required to follow the various chapters. The concepts and formalism presented should also prove useful in research on ultracold atomic gases, polariton condensation, and quantum information.
533	$aDigital reproduction.-$bOxford :$cOxford University Press,$d2016.$fOxford Scholarship Online$nMode of access: World Wide Web. System requirements: Internet Explorer 6.0 (or higher) or Firefox 2.0 (or higher). Available as searchable text in HTML format.
538	$aOnline access is restricted to subscribing institutions through IP address (only for SISSA internal users)
700	$aShiau, Shiue-Yuan
710	$aOxford Scholarship Online
856	$uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198753735.001.0001