The physics of dilute magnetic alloys

A classic book on the Kondo effect by its discoverer, for graduate students and researchers in condensed matter physics.

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author Kondō, Jun, 1930-2022 (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781139518949
1139518941
9781139162173
1139162179
9781139513586
1139513583
9781139517089
1139517082
1139515438
9781139515436
9786613922779
6613922773
1139518011
9781139518017
1139514512
9781139514514
1107231965
9781107231962
9781107024182
1107024188
9781283610322
1283610329
Physical Description1 online resource (xii, 261 pages) : illustrations

Cover

Table of Contents:
  • Cover; The Physics of Dilute Magnetic Alloys; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Translators' foreword; 1 Atoms; 1.1 Mean-field approximation and electronic configurations; 1.2 Multiplets; 1.3 Coulomb and exchange integrals; 1.4 Hartree's method; References and further reading; Note added by the translators:; 2 Molecules; 2.1 The H2+ molecule; 2.2 The H2 molecule; 2.3 The configuration interaction; 2.4 Second quantization; References and further reading; Note added by the translators:; 3 The Sommerfeld theory of metals; 3.1 Classification of solids; 3.1.1 Molecular crystals.
  • 3.1.2 Ionic crystals3.1.3 Covalent-bond crystals; 3.1.4 Metals; 3.2 The Sommerfeld theory; References and further reading; Note added by the translators:; 4 Band theory; 4.1 The periodic structure of crystals; 4.2 Bloch's theorem; 4.3 An approach starting from the free electron picture; 4.4 The Bloch orbital as a linear combination of atomic orbitals; 4.5 Metals and insulators; 4.6 The Wigner-Seitz theory; 5 Magnetic impurities in metals; 5.1 Local charge neutrality; 5.2 The spherical representation; 5.3 Charge distribution and the density of states; 5.4 Virtual bound states.
  • 5.5 The Anderson model I5.6 The Anderson model II; 5.7 The Coulomb interaction: UHF; 5.8 Expansion in powers of U; 5.9 s-d interaction; 5.10 Case with orbital degeneracy; References and further reading; Further reading; 6 The infrared divergence in metals; 6.1 The Anderson orthogonality theorem; 6.2 Mahan's problem; 6.3 The thermal Green's function; 6.4 Thermal Green's functions in the presence of local potentials; 6.5 The partition function in the s-d problem; 6.6 The Nozières-de Dominicis solution; 6.7 Calculation of the partition function; 6.8 A scaling approach.