High Magnetic Fields: Applications in Condensed Matter Physics and Spectroscopy

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Springer Science & Business Media, 2001 - Medical - 493 pages
This book is addressed to all scientists interested in the use of high magnetic ?elds and in the use of high-?eld facilities around the world. In particular it will help young scientists and newcomers to the topic to gain a better understanding in areas such as condensed matter physics, in which the magnetic ?eld plays a key role either as a parameter controlling the Hamiltonian, or as an experimental tool to probe the underlying mechanism. This concerns mostly strongly correlated and (or) low dimensional systems. Rather than covering all these subjects in detail, the philosophy here is to give essential physical concepts in some of the most active ?elds, which have been quickly growing in the last ten to twenty years. Besides its role as a physical parameter in condensed matter physics, a large magnetic ?eld is essential to Electron Paramagentic Resonance (EPR) and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopies. The state of art of high resolution NMRin liquids and solids and high frequency EPRapplied to ?elds like chemistry and biology are also reviewed in this volume. The ?rst series of chapters is devoted to the integer and the Fractional Qu- tum Hall E?ects (FQHE) in two-dimensional electron systems. C. Glattli brushes an historical background and a comprehensive review of transport phenomena in these systems, including recent developments on the mesoscopic electronic transport at the edges of quantum Hall samples, chiral Luttinger liquids and fractional excitations. R.
 

Contents

Macroscopic and Mesoscopic Electron Transport
1
Theories of the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect
47
Magnetooptics of Composite Fermions
78
Stripe and Bubble Phases in Quantum Hall Systems
98
Low Dimensional Magnets
139
Frustrated Quantum Magnets
161
NMR Studies of LowDimensional Quantum Antiferromagnets
191
Magnetized States of Quantum Spin Chains
211
Superconductivity Under High Magnetic Fields in LowDimensional Organic Salts
301
Vortex Phases
314
Colossal Magnetoresistive Oxides in High Magnetic Fields
361
HalfMetallic Ferromagnets
377
Effects of ElectronElectron InteractionsNear the MetalInsulator Transitionin IndiumOxide Films
397
Interference Effects in Disordered Insulators
413
High Resolution NMR of Biomolecules
426
HighResolution SolidState NMR
435

Electronic Phases of LowDimensional Conductors
235
TM2X and Cuprate Spin Ladders
271
Nucleation of Superconductivity in LowDimensional Systems Under Magnetic Fields
287
High Frequency EPR Spectroscopy
454
PulsedHigh FieldHighFrequency EPR Spectroscopy
476
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