"Version: 20190401"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references and index.1. Symmetries and effective Hamiltonians -- 1.1. Crash course on symmetry transformations -- 1.2. Effective Hamiltonians for bulk III-V semiconductors -- 1.3. Hands-on : symmetry analysis of a triple quantum dot2. Electron-couplin…