Problems of Condensed Matter Physics

Alexei L. Ivanov School of Physics and Astronomy Cardiff University Employment History: Research staff member of Physics Department of Moscow State University, 1984-1991 Research associate of Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Frankfurt am Main, 1991-1997 Research associate of Theory Condensed Matter Group, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge, 1998-1999 Senior Lecturer, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Cardiff University, 1999-2003 Personal Chair - Professor, School of Physics and Astronomy, Cardiff University, 2003 - present time. Sergei G. Tikhodeev A M Prokhorov General Physics Institute Russian Academy of Sciences Moscow Employment History: Since 1997, Head of Nanostructures theory laboratory, A. M. Prokhorov General Physics Institute RAS, Moscow, Russia 1988 - 1996, Leading Scientist, General Physics Institute 1983 - 1988 Senior Scientist, General Physics Institute 1975 - 1983 Research Associate, I.E.Tamm Theory Department, P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute AS USSR, Moscow

0. Preface ; 1. Recollections ; 2. Once again on the "Physical Minimum" ; 3. Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Nanostructures and Light-Matter Interaction ; 4. The acoustic-wave driven quantum processor ; 5. On the problem of many-body localization ; 6. Raman scattering by LO phonons in semiconductors: the role of the Franz-Keldysh effect ; 7. Phenomena in cold exciton gases: from theory to experiments ; 8. Composite Fermions and Fractional Quantum Hall effect in two-dimensional electron system ; 9. Microcavities with quantum dots: weak and strong coupling regimes ; 10. Dynamics of cold excitons and electron-hole ensembles in direct-gap semiconductors studied by mid-infrared pump and probe spectroscopy ; 11. Exciton Coherence ; 12. Inelastic Light Scattering by Low-lying Excitations of Quantum Hall Fluids ; 13. Remarks on Surface-atoms Forces in London and Lifshitz Limits ; 14. Modern trends in semiconductor spintronics ; 15. Excitonic insulators, electron-hole liquids and metal-insulator transitions ; 16. Electron-hole liquid in semiconductors ; 17. Collective state of interwell excitons in double quantum wells heterostructures ; 18. Bose-Einstein condensation of excitons: Promise and disappointment ; 19. Acoustically induced superlattices: from photons and electrons to excitons and polaritons ; 20. Inelastic tunneling spectroscopy of single surface adsorbed molecules