Ard A. Louis: PhD Thesis

• Prologue and Introduction (postscript 130 Kb)

• Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview (postscript 32 Kb)

• Chapter 2: Atomic Tunneling from an STM/AFM Tip: Dissipative Quantum Effects from Phonons (postscript 211 Kb)

• Chapter 3: Metallization of Fluid Hydrogen (postscript 256 Kb)

• Chapter 4: A Single Atom in an Electron Gas (postscript 586 Kb)

• Chapter 5: Electron-Ion Structure Functions (postscript 331 Kb)

• Chapter 6: Pseudo Atoms and the Quantum Ornstein Zernike Relations (postscript 195 Kb)

• Appendices: (postscript 347 Kb)
  • A) Temporal Bell Inequalities
  • B) Coupling of the tunneling atom to Raleigh surface phonons: Ohmic dissipation
  • C) Finite Temperature Hohenberg-Kohn-Mermin Theorem for Multi-Component Charged Systems
  • D) Non-linear response functions

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