Heavy-Fermion Systems: Volume 2 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780444515032)

The book on Heavy-Fermion Systems is a part of the Book series "Handbook of Metal Physics", each volume of which is written to facilitate the research of Ph.D. students, faculty and other researchers in a specific area. The Heavy-Fermions (sometimes known as Heavy-Electrons) is a loosely defined collection of intermetallic compounds containing rare-earth (mostly Ce) or actinide (mostly U) elements. These unusual names were given due to the large effective mass (100-1,000 times greater than the mass of a free electron) below a critical temperature. They have a variety of ground states including superconducting, antiferromagnetic, paramagnetic or semiconducting. Some display unusual magnetic properties such as magnetic quantum critical point and metamagnetism. This book is essentially a summary as well as a critical review of the theoretical and experimental work done on Heavy Fermions.

Author: Prasanta Misra
ISBN-10: 0444515038
ISBN-13: 9780444515032
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Language: English
Published: 12/01/2007
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.75lbs
Size: 9.51h x 6.81w x 0.80d