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ALKALI-DOPED FULLERIDES: NARROW-BAND SOLIDS WITH UNUSUAL PROPERTIES
Author(s): Olle Gunnarsson (Author)
- Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
- Publication Date: May 25, 2004
- Language: English
- Print length: 300 pages
- ISBN-10: 981238667X
- ISBN-13: 9789812386670
Book Description
Alkali-doped fullerides have attracted strong interest since their production became possible about fifteen years ago. This book presents recent work which may solve intriguing problems arising from a variety of remarkable properties. For example, these solids are superconductors with high transition temperatures, although the similarity between the electronic and phonon energy scales should suppress superconductivity. Moreover, the Ioffe-Regel condition for electrical conductivity is strongly violated. The book shows why superconductivity is nevertheless possible, owing to a local pairing mechanism. The Ioffe-Regel condition is derived quantum-mechanically, and it is explained why the underlying assumptions are violated for fullerides and high-Tc cuprates, for example. The book treats electronic and transport properties, reviewing theoretical and experimental results. It focuses on superconductivity, electrical conductivity and metal-insulator transitions, emphasizing the electron-electron and electron-phonon interactions as well as the Jahn-Teller effect.
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