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Excitonic Processes in Solids

Part of the book series: Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences ((SSSOL,volume 60))

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This first chapter introduces the basic concept of an exciton as an elementary excitation in a many-electron system of an insulator. Various kinds of interaction associated with translational and internal motions of this composite particle, such as electron-hole Coulomb and exchange interactions, spin-orbit interactions and interatomic or intermolecular overlap and dipole-dipole energies, are described with particular attention to their interplay and to their reflection in the optical spectra. The coupled mode of light and electronic polarization waves, whose quanta are a photon and an exciton, respectively, is described in terms of a polariton picture, whereby the optical response of the bulk is related to that of the surface, with additional boundary conditions in the case of spatial dispersion. This chapter provides the conceptual basis for more dynamical aspects of the excitons to be described in later chapters.

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  1. Professor Dr. Masayasu Ueta

    Present address: Department of Physics, Kyoto Sangyo University, Kyoto 603, Japan

  2. Professor Dr. Hiroshi Kanzaki

    Present address: Fuji Film Research Lab., Minami-Ashigara, Kanagawa 250-01, Japan

  3. Professor Dr. Koichi Kobayashi

    Present address: College of Liberal Arts, Toyama University, Toyama 930, Japan

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  1. Department of Physics, Tohoku University, Sendai 980, Japan

    Professor Dr. Masayasu Ueta

  2. Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106, Japan

    Professor Dr. Hiroshi Kanzaki, Professor Dr. Koichi Kobayashi & Professor Dr. Yutaka Toyozawa

  3. Department of Applied Physics, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113, Japan

    Professor Dr. Eiichi Hanamura

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Ueta, M., Kanzaki, H., Kobayashi, K., Toyozawa, Y., Hanamura, E. (1986). Introduction. In: Excitonic Processes in Solids. Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences, vol 60. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-82602-3_1

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