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Heavy-Fermion Systems
Author(s): Prasanta Misra (Author)
- Publisher: Elsevier Science
- Publication Date: 5 Nov. 2007
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 352 pages
- ISBN-10: 0444515038
- ISBN-13: 9780444515032
Book Description
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.
· Extensive research references.· Comprehensive review of a very rapidly growing number of theories.· Summary of all important experiments.· Comparison with other highly correlated systems such as High-Tc Superconductors.· Possible Technological applications.
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About the Author
I have published 100 research papers on magnetic, electric, optical and hyperfine properties of metals, alloys, crystalline and amorphous semiconductors. 10 students have completed their Ph.D. thesis under my supervision. I have been doing research on Heavy-Fermion Systems since 1982 and published several papers to explain their properties.
B.Sc (Hons) and M.Sc, in Physics (Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, India), Ph.D. in Physics (Tufts University, Medford, U.S.A.), Post-Doctoral Research in Solid State Physics (University of Texas, Austin, U.S.A.)
