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PROPERTIES OF PEROVSKITES AND OTHER OXIDES
edited by Alex Müller (University of Zürich, Switzerland)
& Tom W Kool (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
584pp (approx.)
978-981-4317-69-6(pbk): US$48 / £32 US$36
/ £24
978-981-4293-35-8: US$128 / £84 US$96 /
£63
In this book some 50 papers published by K A Müller as
author or co-author over several decades, amplified by more recent work
mainly by T W Kool with collaborators, are reproduced. The main subject
is Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) applied to the study of
perovskites and other oxides with related subjects. This wealth of
papers is organized into eleven chapters, each with an introductory
text written in the light of current understanding. The contributions
of the first author on structural phase transitions have been immense,
and because K A Müller and J C Fayet have published a review paper on
the subject, the latter is reproduced in chapter VII. Not related to
EPR is a part of chapter VIII on the dipolar and quantum paraelectric
behavior with dielectric studies. In chapter X two papers proving the
existence of Fermi glasses are reproduced.
The year 1986 bears some significance: early in this year the
paper by Bednorz and Müller on the possible observation of
superconductivity was published. This resulted in a substantial shift
in the paradigm of condensed matter physics, to which the present first
author has contributed scientifically with others and which will be
reviewed in a second volume.
Contents:
- Electron Paramagnetic Resonance
- Transition-Metal Ions in Pyramidal Oxygen
Coordination
- Photochromism
- The Jahn-Teller Effect
- Non-Kramers Ions
- Off-Center Ions and a Special Cr3+
Center
- Structural Phase Transitions
- Dipolar and Quantum Paraelectric Behavior
- Electronic Structure of SrTiO3
- Experimental Evidence of Fermi Glasses and
Itinerant Polarons
- Superconductivity
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