Electron Correlation in Metals

Physics monograph on important topic in condensed matter physics.

K. Yamada (Author)

9780521147682, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 24 June 2010

256 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm, 0.35 kg

Review of the hardback: 'The positive features of Electron Correlation in Metals are its treatments of diagrammatic techniques for the different topics. … When confronting a new problem, it is often instructive to take a first stab at it using perturbative techniques - and for that, Yamada is indeed an expert.' Physics Today

Since the discovery of high Tc superconductivity, the role of electron correlation on superconductivity has been an important issue in condensed matter physics. Here the role of electron correlation in metals is explained in detail on the basis of the Fermi liquid theory. The book, originally published in 2004, discusses the following issues: enhancements of electronic specific heat and magnetic susceptibility, effects of electron correlation on transport phenomena such as electric resistivity and Hall coefficient, magnetism, Mott transition and unconventional superconductivity. These originate commonly from the Coulomb repulsion between electrons. In particular, superconductivity in strongly correlated electron systems is discussed with a unified point of view. This book is written to explain interesting physics in metals for undergraduate and graduate students and researchers in condensed matter physics.

Preface
1. Fermi gas
2. Fermi liquid theory
3. Anderson's orthogonality theorem
4. s-d Hamiltonian and Kondo effects
5. Anderson Hamiltonian
6. Hubbard Hamiltonian
7. Fermi liquid theory of strongly correlated electron systems
8. Transport theory based on Fermi liquid theory
9. Superconductivity in strongly correlated electron systems
Appendices
Index.

Subject Areas: Condensed matter physics [liquid state & solid state physics PHFC]