1. Introduction Part I: Excitons 2. The Exciton Concept 3. Wannier Excitons 4. Frenkel Excitons 5. Elementary Bosons, Wannier and Frenkel Excitons, and Frenkel Excitons Part II: Cooper Pairs 6. The Cooper Pair Problem 7. The Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer Approach 8.

The Bogoliubov Approach 9. The Gorkov Approach 10. Richardsib-Gaudin Exact Solution 11. Links Between Cooper Pairs and Excitons Part III: Particles Related to Excitons 12. Trions, Biexcitons and Polaritons 13. Trions 14. Biexcitons 15. Polaritons Part IV: Bosonic Condensation 16.

From Elementary Composite Boson Condensates 17. Elementary Bosons 18. Composite Fermions 19. Composite Bosons Appendix A : Some Mathematical Results A.1. The Kronecker symbol and delta function A.2. Fourier transform and series expansion A.

3. Coulomb scatterings Appendix B : The Second Quantization Formalism Appendix C : The Hamiltonian for Wannier Excitons C.1. The semiconductor Hamiltonian in first quantization C.2. Bloch states C.3. The semiconductor Hamiltonian on the Bloch basis Appendix D : The Valence Electron Operator Versus the Hole Operator D.

1. Valence electron absence D.2. Spin 1/2 D.3. l=1 orbital momentum Appendix E : "The Coboson Bible" Appendix F : Direct Coulomb Scattering for Wannier Excitons F.1. Creation potential F.

2. Direct Coulomb scattering F.3. Symmetry properties Appendix G : Concerning N Ground-State Wannier Excitons G.1. Normalization factor G.2. Hamiltonian mean value Appendix H : Photon-Semiconductor Interaction H.

1. Electromagnetic field in vacuum H.2. The electron Hamiltonian in a photon field H.3. Linear Coupling H.4. Quadratic coupling H.

5. Complex polarization vectors Appendix I : Photon-Exciton Interaction I.1. Photon-exciton coupling I.2. The sum rule between photon-exciton couplings References Index.