The authors review the physics of ultrafast dynamics in semiconductors and their
heterostructures, including both the observed experimental phenomena and the theoretical …

The authors review the nonlinear optical properties of semiconductor quantum wells that are
grown inside high-Q Bragg-mirror microcavities. Light-matter coupling in this system is …

During the 11 years since the first edition was published the field of quantum kinetics has
experienced a great expansion, and the methods described in the first edition are now …

Photonic bandgap crystals can reflect light for any direction of propagation in specific
wavelength ranges,,. This property, which can be used to confine, manipulate and guide …

Abstract Intense femtosecond (10− 15 s) light pulses can be used to transform electronic,
magnetic and structural order in condensed-matter systems on timescales of electronic and …

Femtosecond optical pump–probe spectroscopy with 10 fs visible pulses is employed to
elucidate the ultrafast carrier dynamics of few-layer MoS2. A nonthermal carrier distribution …

Distinguishing insulators by the dominant type of interaction is a central problem in
condensed matter physics. Basic models include the Bloch-Wilson and the Peierls insulator …

Electrostatic coupling between particles is important in many microscopic phenomena found
in nature. The interaction between two isolated point charges is described by the bare …

This chapter gives an introduction to interacting many-body systems. Interaction effects give
rise to collective behavior, dominated by mean field effects, as well as to correlations. We …

Whenever a physicist visits the physics faculty in Dortmund, he/she is bound to hear the
success story of the so-called integrated course, a four-semester introduction to physics …