Contents Briefing

This book will be helpful for researchers, graduate and undergraduate students who are interested in the frontiers of the modern solid state physics. It includes 10 chapters:
1. De-coupling of the electronic system and lattice system;
2. The basis of single electron approximation;
3. Localization;
4. Quantum confinement and Landauer formula;
5. Mesoscopic physics;
6. 2-dimensional electron gas and the quantum Hall effect;
7. Coulomb blockade and single electron tunneling;
8. Cluster and nano-particles;
9. 1-dimensional and quasi 1-dimensional systems;
10. Quantum crystals and quantum phase transition.

Publisher Profile

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Author Profile

Yan Shousheng, professor in School of Physics at Peking University and Chairman of Chinese Association of Nomenclature in Physics.