Lecture Notes On Electron Correlation And Magnetism

by Patrik Fazekas

Overview

This volume attempts to fill the gap between standard introductions to solid state physics, and textbooks which give a sophisticated treatment of strongly correlated systems. Starting with the basics of the microscopic theory of magnetism, one proceeds with relatively elementary arguments to such topics of current interest as the Mott transition, heavy fermions, and quantum magnetism. The basic approach is that magnetism is one of the manifestations of electron-electron interaction, and its treatment should be part of a general discussion of electron correlation effects.Though the text is primarily theoretical, a large number of illustrative examples are brought from the experimental literature. There are many problems, with detailed solutions.The book is based on the material of lectures given at the Diploma Course of the International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, and later at the Technical University and the R. Eötvös University of Budapest, Hungary.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789810224745
Publisher:	World Scientific Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date:	01/28/1999
Series:	Series In Modern Condensed Matter Physics , #5
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	796
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.90(d)

Editorial Reviews

Presents a unified, non-formal way of thinking about strong correlation phenomena that has long been shared by experimentalists and theoreticians in the field. Contains chapters on atoms, ions, and molecules, crystal field theory, Mott transition and the Hubbard model, Mott insulators, Heisenberg magnets, itinerant electron magnetism, ferromagnetism in Hubbard models, the Gutzwiller variational method, the correlated metallic state, mixed valence and heavy fermions, and the quantum Hall effect. Includes chapter problems and answers, and appendices on the hydrogen atom, single-spin-flip ansatz, the Gutzwiller approximation, and the Schrieffer-Wolff transformation. The author is affiliated with the Research Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics in Budapest. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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