Die Kunst of Phonons: Lectures from the Winter School of Theoretical Physics

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.