As its name suggests, the 1988 workshop on Interacting Electrons in Reduced Dimen the wide variety of physical effects that are associated with (possibly sions focused on strongly) correlated electrons interacting in quasi-one- and quasi-two-dimensional mate rials. Among the phenomena discussed were superconductivity, magnetic ordering, the metal-insulator transition, localization, the fractional Quantum Hall effect (QHE), Peierls and spin-Peierls transitions, conductance fluctuations and sliding charge-density (CDW) and spin-density (SDW) waves. That these effects appear most pronounced in systems of reduced dimensionality was amply demonstrated at the meeting. Indeed, when concrete illustrations were presented, they typically involved chain-like materials such as conjugated polymers, inorganic CDW systems and organie conductors, or layered materials such as high-temperature copper-oxide superconductors, certain of the organic superconductors, and the QHE samples, or devices where the electrons are confined to a restricted region of sample, e. g. , the depletion layer of a MOSFET. To enable this broad subject to be covered in thirty-five lectures (and ab out half as many posters), the workshop was deliberately focused on theoretical models for these phenomena and on methods for describing as faithfully as possible the true behav ior of these models. This latter emphasis was especially important, since the inherently many-body nature of problems involving interacting electrons renders conventional effec tive single-particle/mean-field methods (e. g. , Hartree-Fock or the local-density approxi mation in density-functional theory) highly suspect. Again, this is particularly true in reduced dimensions, where strong quantum fluctuations can invalidate mean-field results.
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Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
ISBN-13
9781461278696
eBay Product ID (ePID)
189602403
Product Key Features
Author
David K. Campbell, Dionys Baeriswyl
Publication Name
Interacting Electrons in Reduced Dimensions
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Chemistry, Science, Physics
Publication Year
2011
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
414 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
254mm
Item Width
178mm
Volume
213
Item Weight
795g
Additional Product Features
Series Title
Nato Science Series B
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
Editor
Dionys Baeriswyl, David K. Campbell
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