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Condensed-matter physics /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: National Research Council (U.S.). Panel on Condensed Matter Physics
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1986.
Colección:Physics through the 1990s.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Condensed-Matter Physics
  • Copyright
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • I Highlights, Opportunities, and Needs
  • CONDENSED-MATTER PHYSICS AND ITS IMPORTANCE
  • DISCOVERY
  • Artificially Structured Materials
  • The Quantized Hall Effect
  • Effects of Reduced Dimensionality
  • Charge-Density Waves
  • Disorder
  • Mixed Valence and Heavy Fermions
  • The Superfluid Phases of 3He
  • The Renormalization Group Methods
  • Chaotic Phenomena in Time and Space
  • Widespread Use of Synchrotron Radiation
  • Atomic Resolution Experimental Probes
  • RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES IN CONDENSED-MATTER PHYSICS IN THE NEXT DECADENEEDS OF CONDENSED-MATTER PHYSICS IN THE NEXT DECADE
  • Support for Individual Researchers
  • MANPOWER
  • INSTRUMENTATION
  • COMPUTATION
  • FUNDING
  • Support for National Facilities
  • NEUTRON FACILITIES
  • SYNCHROTRON RADIATION SOURCES RECOMMENDATIONS
  • HIGH-MAGNETIC-FIELD FACILITIES RECOMMENDATIONS
  • ELECTRON-MICROSCOPE FACILITIES RECOMMENDATIONS
  • GENERAL RECOMMENDATIONS CONCERNING NATIONAL FACILITIES
  • University-Industry-Government Relations
  • II A Decade of Condensed-Matter Physics1 Electronic Structure and Properties of Matter
  • INTRODUCTION
  • ADVANCES IN ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE DETERMINATIONS
  • MANY-ELECTRON EFFECTS
  • QUANTIZED HALL EFFECT
  • ELECTRON-HOLE DROPLETS
  • ELECTRONICALLY ORDERED STATES
  • DISORDERED SYSTEMS
  • MIXED MEDIA
  • CONDENSED MATTER AT HIGH PRESSURE
  • OPPORTUNITIES
  • 2 Structures and Vibrational Properties of Solids
  • INTRODUCTION
  • THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS
  • MEASUREMENTS OF STRUCTURES AND PHONON SPECTRA
  • PHONON TRANSPORT
  • ELECTRON-PHONON INTERACTIONS
  • DISORDERED SOLIDS AND INCOMMENSURATE PHASESPHASE TRANSITIONS AND NONLINEAR EXCITATIONS
  • OPPORTUNITIES
  • 3 Critical Phenomena and Phase Transitions
  • INTRODUCTION
  • WHAT ARE CRITICAL PHENOMENA, AND WHY ARE THEY INTERESTING TO PHYSICISTS?
  • EXAMPLES OF PHASE TRANSITIONS AND CRITICAL POINTS
  • HISTORY
  • WHAT DOES ONE MEASURE?
  • WHAT DETERMINES THE UNIVERSALITY CLASS?
  • EXPERIMENTAL REALIZATIONS OF LOW-DIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS
  • MULTICRITICAL POINTS
  • SYSTEMS WITH ALMOST-BROKEN SYMMETRY
  • Two-Dimensional Superfluid and XY Model
  • Melting of a Two-Dimensional CrystalSmectic A-to-Nematic Transition
  • QUENCHED DISORDER
  • PERCOLATION AND THE METAL-INSULATOR TRANSITION IN DISORDERED SYSTEMS
  • NONEQUILIBRIUM SYSTEMS
  • FIRST-ORDER TRANSITIONS
  • OUTLOOK
  • 4 Magnetism
  • INTRODUCTION
  • MAGNETIC INSULATORS
  • Low-Dimensional Systems
  • Critical Phenomena
  • METALLIC MAGNETS
  • Transition-Metal Ferromagnets
  • Rare-Earth and Actinide Magnets
  • DISORDERED SYSTEMS
  • Introduction
  • Disordered Ferromagnets, Antiferromagnets, and Paramagnets
  • Spin Glasses