Heavy-Fermion Systems: Volume 2

By Prasanta Misra

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0444515038
• ISBN13: 9780444515032
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.8" x 9.5"