Die Kunst of phonons: Lectures from the winter school of theoretical physics: Proc.of the Twenty - ninth Winter school of theoretical physics, held Febr. 15-27, 1993, in Kudowa Zdrój, Poland

Phonons: General: Recent Progress in Using the Effective Potential Method (G.K. Horton, E.R. Cowley). Momentum and Quasimomentum in the Physics of Condensed Matter (A. Thellung). Phonon Focusing: Phonon Imaging at Ultrasonic Frequencies (A.G. Every). Nonequilibrium Phonons: Timedependent Specific Heat of Crystals and Glasses at Low Temperatures (N.S.M. Meissner). Interaction of Bulk Phonons with Low Dimensional Gases of Carriers: Acoustic Phonon Interaction with Twodimensional Electron and Hole Systems (L.J. Challis, A.J. Kent). Phonon Mediated Detectors of Elementary Particles: Application of Phonon Physics to Cryogenic Detectors (H. Kraus). Molecular Crystals: Phonon Scattering and Heat Transfer in Simple Molecular Crystals (V.G. Manzhelii, V.A. Konstantinov). Electron Systems: The Surface Impedance and the Slab Conductivity of Metals Beyond the Relaxation Time Approximation Transition (J. Czerwonko et al.). 28 additional articles. Index. Front Matter....Pages i-xii Recent Progress in Using the Effective Potential Method....Pages 1-13 Momentum and Quasimomentum in the Physics of Condensed Matter....Pages 15-32 Partial Frequency Distribution Functions and the Problem of the Localization of Atomic Vibrations in Real Layered and Multilayered Crystals....Pages 33-46 Selfconsistent Approach to Phonon Localization in Harmonic Crystals with Defects....Pages 47-50 Bulk Phonon-Polaritons in Reststrahlen Region of A3B5 Compound Superlattice....Pages 51-53 Thermal Phonon Imaging....Pages 55-71 Phonon Imaging at Ultrasonic Frequencies: The Dynamic Response on Anisotropic Solids....Pages 73-85 Phonon Patterns of Cubic Crystal Monte Carlo Simulation Program....Pages 87-97 Surface Phonon Focusing at Ultrasonic Frequencies....Pages 99-104 Time-Dependent Specific Heat of Crystals and Glasses at Low Temperatures....Pages 105-112 Optical Studies of Nonequilibrium Phonons in Semiconductors....Pages 113-128 Monte-Carlo Calculated Nonequilibrium Phonon Pulses in GaAs....Pages 129-134 Influence of Sample Temperature and Pumping Intensity on the Processes of Hot Spot Formation and Degradation....Pages 135-138 Ballistic Phonon Propagation in At-Cut Quartz....Pages 139-142 Effect of Resonant Scattering by Paramagnetic Centers on the Propagation of Nonequilibrium Phonons....Pages 143-151 Singularities of the Heat Conductivity in Thin Dielectric Slabs....Pages 153-158 Acoustic Phonon Interaction with Two-Dimensional Electron and Hole Systems....Pages 159-187 Phonon Emission and Absorption Experiments in the Quantum-Hall Regime....Pages 189-200 Phonon Measurements of the Energy Gap in the Fractional Quantum Hall State....Pages 201-203 Response of Two-Dimensional Electron Gas to Pulses of a Phonon Field....Pages 205-210 Phonon-Drag Effect in 1-Dimensional Electron Gases....Pages 211-217 The Thermoelectric Behaviour of two Dimensional Electron and Hole Gases and Quantum Point Contacts....Pages 219-232 Energy Relaxation via Acoustic Phonons in 2D and id Electron Systems....Pages 233-241 A Theory op the Suppression of the Electron-Phonon Interaction....Pages 243-250 Carrier Capture by Quantum Wells via 3D→2D and 2D→2D Channels....Pages 251-261 Application of Phonon Physics to Cryogenic Detectors....Pages 263-295 Cryogenic Particle Detectors: Phonon Physics in Niobium....Pages 297-319 Phonon Scattering and Heat Transfer in Simple Molecular Crystals....Pages 321-332 Fullerenes....Pages 333-352 Theoretical Investigations of the Orientational Ordering Transition in Solid C60....Pages 353-363 Dynamics Close to the Glass Transition....Pages 365-380 The Surface Impedance and the Slab Conduchvity of Metals Beyond the Relaxation Time Approximation....Pages 381-397 Linear Thermoelastic Generation of Ultrasound in Metals....Pages 399-405 Electron-Phonon Coupling in Strongly Correlated Electron Systems....Pages 407-413 Magnetophonon Resonances on Three Phonon Modes in ZNXCDYHG1-X-Yte Epitaxial Layers....Pages 415-418 A Note on the Measurement of the Intersubband Relaxation Time by an Infrared Bleaching Technique....Pages 419-423 Back Matter....Pages 426-432