Excitons, Photons, and Their Coupling

1: Highlights of the book PART I - EXCITONS 2: Some ideas on excitons 3: Exciton phenomenology 4: Semiconductor microscopy 5: Wannier excitons 6: Exciton many-body effects PART II - PHOTONS 7: Classical electrodynamics in vacuum 8: Semiclassical electrodynamics 9: Quantum electrodynamics 10: Maxwell equations in matter PART III - EXCITON-PHOTON COUPLING 11: Photon couplings to excitons 12: Exciton-polaritons 13: Photon absorption 14: Photocreation of excitons PART IV - APPENDICES Appendix 1 - Second quantization formalism Appendix 2 - Large finite volume Appendix 3 - Arbitrary (±i) phase factors Appendix 4 - On wave vector quantization Appendix 5 - Kronecker symbol and delta function Appendix 6 - Fourier Series and Integrals Appendix 7 - Bloch theorem Appendix 8 - Bloch electrons and Bloch functions Appendix 9 - Coulomb interactions between electrons and holes Appendix 10 - On dielectric constant for long/short-range Coulomb processes Appendix 11 - Angular momenta: additions and matrix representations Appendix 12 - From valence electrons to holes Appendix 13 - Spin-orbit prefactor: Thomas derivation Appendix 14 - The k · p method Appendix 15 - Physics of negative masses for Bloch electrons Appendix 16 - Understanding the Kohn-Luttinger Hamiltonian Appendix 17 - Coulomb scatterings involving heavy and light holes Appendix 18 - Schrödinger equation in D dimension Appendix 19 - Number of exciton levels in a finite crystal Appendix 20 - Effect of hole mass difference on exciton degeneracy Appendix 21 - Interband Coulomb interaction, electron-hole pair exchange, and longitudinal-transverse exciton splitting Appendix 22 - Wannier electron states Appendix 23 - One Wannier exciton through ladder diagrams Appendix 24 - Pauli and Coulomb scatterings between Wannier excitons Appendix 25 - Reasons for not using the E · d coupling instead of A · p Appendix 26 - Rotating wave approximation versus quantizing the electromagnetic field Appendix 27 - On polarization vectors Appendix 28 - Broadened absorption line Appendix 29 - More on exciton-polaritons Appendix 30 - Two coupled bosons with finite lifetime