High-Pressure and Low-Temperature Physics

✍ Scribed by Arthur L. Ruoff (auth.), C. W. Chu, J. A. Woollam (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1978
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 596
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

High pressure science is a rapidly growing diverse fi. e1d. The high pressure technique has become a powerful tool for both the study and preparation of materials. In spi. te of the many high pressure conferences held in recent years, I felt that there was a need for scientists within a well-defined area (not bound merely by the common experimental technique) to meet in an atmosphere conducive to frank exchange and close interaction. In this spirit, the Cleveland State University hosted such a conference from July 20 to 22, 1977, in which the physics of solids under high pressures and at low tempera­ tures was specifically examined. Both the original and review papers presented at the conference and the candid discussions following their presentations appear in this volume. They clearly cover a rather complete spectrum of current research in the physics of solids at high pressures and low temperatures. I wish to thank the National Aeronautics and Space Administra­ tion, the Office of Naval Research and the National Science Founda­ tion for their financial support of the conference. In addition, I wish especially to thank Steinar Huang for his unceasing assistance in arranging this conference. I also wish to thank him and Francis Stephenson for their assistance in preparing this book. C. W. Chu, Chairman, International Conference on High Pressure and Low Temperature Physics v Contents HYDROGEN AND METAL-HYDRIDES (Chairman: I. Spain) PROSPECTS FOR METALLIC HYDROGEN 1 A. L.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Prospects for Metallic Hydrogen....Pages 1-20
Metallic Hydrogen: Recent Theoretical Progress....Pages 21-42
High Hydrogen Pressures in Superconductivity....Pages 43-53
The Role of Pressure in the Study of the Fermi Surface....Pages 55-65
Electronic Structures of Ferromagnetic 3d-Transition Metals at Normal and High Pressures....Pages 67-86
Neutron Scattering at High Pressure in Singlet-Triplet Systems....Pages 87-96
Some Magnetization Studies at High Hydrostatic Pressures....Pages 97-113
Pressure-Induced Electronic Transition in CeAl 2 ....Pages 115-122
Valence Instabilities of Rare Earth Ions in Metals....Pages 123-140
Theoretical Approach to the Configuration Fluctuation in Sm-Chalcogenides....Pages 141-168
The α-γ Phase Transitions in Ce-Th Alloys under High Pressure....Pages 169-186
The Pressure Dependence of the Magnetic Susceptibility of Rare-Earth Substituted Samarium Sulfide....Pages 187-204
Pressure Dependence of Crystal Field Parameters in Rare Earth Intermetallic Compounds....Pages 205-212
Pressure Induced Spin-Glass→Single-Impurity Transition in La Ce, Superconductivity in La Ce and Y Ce under Pressure....Pages 213-228
Stress Effects on Critical Behaviour....Pages 229-236
Tricritical Point in KDP....Pages 237-249
Investigation of the Tricritical Point of KDP under Pressure....Pages 251-254
High Pressure Studies of Soft Mode Transitions in Solids....Pages 255-277
Pressure Dependence of Raman Scattering in Ferroelectrics and Ferroelastics....Pages 279-298
Brillouin Scattering at High Pressures....Pages 299-313
Anharmonicity in A15 Superconductors: A Thermal Expansion Approach....Pages 315-336
High Pressure Structural and Lattice Dynamical Investigations at Reduced Temperatures....Pages 337-358
High Temperature Superconductivity and Instabilities....Pages 359-380
The Isothermal Pressure Derivatives of the Elastic Shear Modulus for V 3 Si....Pages 381-391
LaAg under Hydrostatic Pressure: Superconductivity and Phase Transformation....Pages 393-407
Pressure Dependencies of the Superconducting and Magnetic Critical Temperatures of Ternary Rhodium Borides....Pages 409-417
The AuGa 2 Dilemma — Superconducting Version....Pages 419-431
Superconductivity of BCC Barium under Pressure....Pages 433-442
Superconducting Behaviour of Nb 3 Ge thin Films under Hydrostatic Pressure....Pages 443-456
Pressure Dependence of T c in the Superconducting A15 Compounds V 75-x TM x Ga 25 (TM = Cr, Mn, Fe, and Co)....Pages 457-466
New Hypothesis Concerning the Commencement of the Rare Earth Series at High Pressure....Pages 467-481
Pressure-Induced Covalent-Metallic Transitions....Pages 483-503
New Hydrostatic Pressure Results on Sulphur Impurity Center in GaSb....Pages 505-514
Low Temperature Light Induced Change of the Chlorine Center Configuration in CdTe....Pages 515-521
Narrow Gap Semiconductors as Low Temperature Pressure Gauges....Pages 523-528
Bi Phase Transitions below 80°K to 150 Kbars in an Ar Pressure Medium....Pages 529-538
Piston-Cylinder Apparatus Operating at Liquid Helium Temperature....Pages 539-547
He 3 Cryostat with High Pressure Hydrogen Chamber for Superconductivity Measurements in Metal-Hydrogen Alloys....Pages 549-554
Effects of Pressure, Temperature, and Defect Concentration on Positron Behavior in Metals....Pages 555-561
Dimensionality Effects and Physical Properties in 1D Compounds....Pages 563-564
Neutron Diffraction Study of the Compressibility of TTF-TCNQ and KCP under Hydrostatic Pressures up to about 20 kbar....Pages 565-568
The Role of Librations in TTF-TCNQ....Pages 569-574
The Commensurate-Incommensurate Phase Transition....Pages 575-582
The Conference: One Man’s View....Pages 583-588
Back Matter....Pages 589-602

✦ Subjects

Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation; Characterization and Evaluation of Materials