Transition Metal Compounds

Describes all aspects of the physics of transition metal compounds, providing a comprehensive overview of this diverse class of solids.

List of contents

1. Localised and itinerant electrons in solids; 2. Isolated transition metal ions; 3. Transition metal ions in crystals; 4. Mott-Hubbard vc charge-transfer insulators; 5. Exchange interaction and magnetic structures; 6. Cooperative Jahn-Teller effect and orbital ordering; 7. Charge ordering in transition metal compounds; 8. Ferroelectrics, magnetoelectrics and multiferroics; 9. Doping of correlated systems and correlated metals; 10. Metal-insulator transitions; 11. Kondoeffect, mixed valence and heavy fermions; Appendix A. Some historical notes; Appendix B. A layman's guide to second quantization; Appendix C. Phase transitions and free energy expansion: Landau theory in a nutshell.

About the author

Daniel I. Khomskii is a professor at the University of Köln, Germany, where his research interests focus on metal-insulator transitions, magnetism, orbital ordering and superconductivity. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Khomskii, Daniel I Khomskii, Daniel I. Khomskii, Daniel I. (Universitat Zu Koeln) Khomskii
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.10.2014
• EAN: 9781107020177
• ISBN: 978-1-107-02017-7
• No. of pages: 500
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Chemistry > Inorganic chemistry; SCIENCE / Physics / General, Physics, Materials science, Inorganic Chemistry, Mathematics & science