Physics and Chemistry of Transition Metal Oxides

Physics and Chemistry of Transition-Metal Oxides includes both theoretical and experimental approaches to the variety of phenomena found in the transition-metal oxides, including high-temperature superconductivity, colossal magnetoresistance, and metal-insulator transition. These are the central issues in materials science and condensed matter physics/chemistry, and readers can obtain up-to-date information on what is happening in this field of research.

This book covers almost all important developements in the physics and chemistry of transiton metal oxides by leading scientists Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Physics and Chemistry of Transition-Metal Oxides includes both theoretical and experimental approaches to the variety of phenomena found in the transition-metal oxides, including high-temperature superconductivity, colossal magnetoresistance, and metal-insulator transition. These are the central issues in materials science and condensed matter physics/chemistry, and readers can obtain up-to-date information on what is happening in this field of research.

Inhalt
I Introduction.- II Overviews.- Localized to Itinerant Electronic Transitions in Perovskite-Related Structures.- Crystal Distortions in Magnetic Compounds.- Present Status of the First-Principles Electronic Structure Calculations for the Strongly Correlated Transition-Metal Oxides.- Aspects of Coupled Spin-Orbital Degrees of Freedom in d- and f-Electron Systems.- III Manganites.- Anisotropic Charge Dynamics in Layered Manganite Crystals.- Roles of Orbitals in Transition Metal Oxides.- Theory of Anomalous X-ray Scattering in a Variety of Orbital Ordered Manganites.- Nonlinear Optical Responses of Strongly Correlated Electronic System.- IV High Tc Cuprates.- Fermi-Liquid Versus Pseudogap Behaviors in Filling-Control Transition-Metal Oxides.- Metal-Insulator and Superconductor-Insulator Transitions in Correlated Electron Systems.- High Temperature Superconductors as a Member of Transition Metal Oxides.- Electronic Structure of Underdoped Superconductors and Related Mott Insulators.- Destruction of the Fermi Surface in Underdoped Cuprates.- Effects of Stripe Order on Charge Dynamics in La-Cuprates.- Spin Excitations in Pure and Zn-Substituted YBa2Cu3O6+x.- Static and Dynamical Incommensurate Spin Correlations in High-Tc Cuprates of La2?xSrxCuO4+y.- Experimental Studies on Singlet Formation in High-Tc Oxides and Quantum Spin Systems.- Thermal Conductivity as a Probe of Quasi-Particles in the Cuprates.- A New-Type Superconducting State Locally Induced Around a Vortex in the Two-Dimensional t-J Model.- Instability of a 2-Dimensional Landau-Fermi Liquid Due to Umklapp Scattering.- Antiferromagnetism, Singlet and Disorder.- The Spin Gap and Superconducting States of Underdoped Cuprates.- Gauge Field, Confinement, and Superconductivity in Underdoped High-Tc Cuprates.- AProgress Report on the SO(5) Theory of High Tc Superconductivity.- Nested Spin-Fluctuation Scenario for Anomalous Metallic Phase of High-TcCuprates.- V New Materials: Ladders, Ruthenates and Others.- Novel Transition Metal Oxides Prepared at High Pressure and Their Electronic Properties.- Spin and Charge Dynamics in the Hole-Doped Two-Leg Ladder Compound Sr14?xCaXCu24O41.- NMR Probe of Magnetic Order and Spin Correlation in Hole-Doped Ladder Cuprates.- Metal-Insulator and Magnetic Transitions in Layered Ruthenates.- Spin Triplet Superconductivity in Sr2 Ru04 A New Territory for Experimentalists and Theorists.- Concluding Remarks.- List of Contributors.