Advances in Solid State Physics

Quantum Dots.- A Quantum Dot Single Photon Source.- Control of Light in Microresonators.- Numerical Renormalization Group Analysis of Interacting Quantum Dots.- Few-Particle Effects in Self-Organized Quantum Dots.- Spectroscopy on Single Dots - Monitoring Carrier Interaction with the Environment.- Optical Spectroscopy on Single Quantum Dots: Charged Excitons.- Long-Wavelength Buried-Tunnel-Junction Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers.- Optics.- Photon Echo Experiments on Electron-Plasmon Quantum Kinetics in GaAs.- Phonon and Coulomb Quantum Kinetics for Femtosecond Spectroscopy.- Quantum Kinetic Effects in Semiconductors Studied via Femtosecond Transmission Measurements.- Phonon Quantum Kinetics in Spatially Inhomogeneous Systems.- Propagating Anisotropic Solitons in Active Semiconductor Media.- Photorefractive Spatial Solitons.- X-Ray Magneto-Optics.- Electron and Spin Transport.- Spintronics: Spin Electronics and Optoelectronics in Semiconductors.- Transport in Quasi One-Dimensional Systems.- Transport in Nanostructures: A Comparison between Nonequilibrium Green Functions and Density Matrices.- Spin-Orbit Coupling in Two-Dimensional Electron and Hole Systems.- Nanostructures.- Lanthanide-Silicide Films on Silicon Surfaces.- Development of Texture and Microstructure in MgO Buffer Layers Using Ion-Beam Assisted Pulsed Laser Deposition.- Modelling of Structure Formation and Mechanical Stresses during Growth of Vapor Deposited Amorphous Thin Films.- Some Materials Science Aspects of PVD Hard Coatings.- X-Ray Diffraction and X-Ray Reflectivity Applied to Investigation of Thin Films.- Three-Dimensional Electric Field Probing of Ferroelectrics on the Nanometer Scale Using Scanning Force Microscopy.- Superconducting Systems.- Terahertz Hilbert Spectroscopy by High-T cJosephson Junctions.- Discrete Breathers in Condensed Matter.- Quantum Phase Transitions and Collective Modes in d-Wave Superconductors.- Complex Systems.- Physics in Cell Biology: Actin as a Model System for Polymer Physics.- The Wonderful World of Active Many-Particle Systems.- Pattern Formation in Dissipative Systems: A Particle Approach.- Structure Formation by Aggregation: Models and Applications.- Amorphous Thin Film Growth: Modeling and Pattern Formation.- Dynamic Processes at the Glass Transition.- Semiclassical Theory.- The Trace Formula between Classical and Quantum Mechanics.- Tunneling in Complex Systems and Periodic Orbits.- The Gutzwiller Trace Formula for Quantum Systems with Spin.- Semiclassical Description of Shell Effects in Finite Fermion Systems.- Quantum Signatures of Typical Chaotic Dynamics.- The Semiclassical Tool in Complex Physical Systems: Mesoscopics and Decoherence.- Cohesion and Stability of Metal Nanowires: A Quantum Chaos Approach.- Magnetism.- Magnetochemistry: Compounds and Concepts.- Lorentz Electron Microscopic Observation of Micromagnetic Configurations in Nanostructured Materials.- Laser-Control of Ferro- and Antiferromagnetism.- Spin-Polarized Photoelectron Emission Microscopy of Magnetic Nanostructures.- Study of Excitations in Structurally Incommensurately Modulated Solids by Means of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance.- High Resolution X-Ray Detection Using Metallic Magnetic Calorimeters.- Magnetotransport Properties of Thin Films of Magnetic Perovskites.- Dynamics of Ferroelectric Domain Walls.- Magnetic Nanoparticles: The Simulation of Thermodynamic Properties.- Micromagnetic Simulation of Switching Events.