The Kondo Problem to Heavy Fermions

'a superb introduction to this fascinating field.' Physics Today

Alexander Cyril Hewson (Author)

9780521599474, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 28 April 1997

472 pages
22.8 x 15.3 x 2.4 cm, 0.625 kg

"...I strongly recommend this book to any reader interested in reading about the solution of the Kondo problem, or to graduate students who wish to prepare themselves for research into strongly correlated electron systems. I am sure that experts in the field will read the book and enjoy it. I came away wanting to read more!" Peter S. Riseborough, Foundations of Physics

The behaviour of magnetic impurities in metals has posed problems to challenge the condensed matter theorist over the past 30 years. This book deals with the concepts and techniques which have been developed to meet this challenge, and with their application to the interpretation of experiments. This book will be of interest to condensed matter physicists, particularly those interested in strong correlation problems. The detailed discussions of advanced many-body techniques should make it of interest to theoretical physicists in general.

1. Models of magnetic impurities
2. Resistivity calculations and the resistance minimum
3. The Kondo problem
4. Renormalization group calculations
5. Fermi liquid theories
6. Exact solutions and the Bethe ansatz
7. N-fold degenerate models I
8. N-fold degenerate models II
9. Theory and experiment
10. Strongly correlated fermions
Appendices.

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