Recent Developments in Condensed Matter Physics: Volume 4 • Low-Dimensional Systems, Phase Changes, and Experimental Techniques

✍ Scribed by R. Burriel, J. Bartolomé, R. Navarro, D. González (auth.), J. T. Devreese, L. F. Lemmens, V. E. Van Doren, J. Van Royen (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1981
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 443
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

These volumes contain the invited and contributed talks of the first general Conference of the Condensed Matter Division of the European Physical Society, which took place at the campus of the University of Antwerpen

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Jahn-Teller Induced Phase Transitions in CsCrCl 3 and RbCrCl 3 Perovskites....Pages 1-10
Study of the Raman Active Modes for the Suzuki Phase in Doped Alkali Halides....Pages 11-20
A Novel Kinetic Melting Criterion and its Observable Consequences....Pages 21-26
Freezing into Simple Cubic and hcp Monatomic Solids....Pages 27-34
Pyroelectric Effect and Ferroelectric Phase Transition in Bi x Sb 1-x SI....Pages 35-42
Phase Changes in Metallic Mn 3 GaC: Heat Capacity Measurements....Pages 43-51
Optical Birefringence in Deuterated Thiourea CS(ND 2 ) 2 in the Incommensurate Phase....Pages 53-60
Phase Diagram of Extended Hubbard Model with Intraatomic Attraction....Pages 61-67
Effect of Heat Release on the Motion of Phase Boundaries....Pages 69-76
Isotropic-Nematic Transition in Liquid Crystals....Pages 77-82
Birefringence Study of BaMnF 4 ....Pages 85-96
Spin Reorientation Transition in Gadolinium....Pages 97-106
Landau-De Gennes Model of First Order Transitions....Pages 107-114
Dielectric Screening and Phonon Frequencies of Silicon....Pages 115-124
Ferroelectric Mode and Phase Transitions in KNbo 3 ....Pages 125-131
The Critical Behaviour of Ferroelectric Triglycineselenate Investigated with the X-Ray Double Crystal Diffractometer Amadeus....Pages 133-138
Temperature Dependence of Polar Optical Phonons in the Cubic Phase of BaTiO 3 and SrTiO 3 ....Pages 139-147
Acoustic Phonons in Inhomogeneous Materials....Pages 149-156
Brillouin Effect and Microelastic Behaviour in Orthorhombic KNb0 3 ....Pages 157-165
Magnetic Solitons in Antiferromagnetic Chains: Neutron and NMR Experiments in TMMC....Pages 167-173
A New Variational Principle and the Quantum Statistics of the φ 4 -Soliton....Pages 175-182
Solitons in a Chain with “Reasonable” Interaction....Pages 183-189
Spinwaves in the Pseudo 1-d Ferromagnetic RbFeCl 3 ....Pages 191-197
Evidence of 3D Antiferromagnetic Order in the S = 1/2 Linear Ferromagnet TMCUC....Pages 199-203
Microhardness and X-ray Diffraction Studies of n-Propyl Q n (TCNQ) 2 Crystals after Neutron Irradiation....Pages 205-211
Brillouin Scattering Down to 0.3 K in Polymers....Pages 213-218
Cis-Trans Isomerization Study of Polyacetylene Films....Pages 219-228
Intermediate Electronic States in Kronig-Penney Models....Pages 229-233
New Light on Magnetic Contributions to the Thermal Expansion of Transition Metal Magnets....Pages 235-242
Thermal Spontaneous Magnetization in Y 2 Ni 7 ....Pages 243-250
Spin Susceptibility of a Random System of Antiferromagnetically Coupled Spins: Application to Impure Silicon....Pages 251-257
Magnetic Susceptibility of Antiferromagnetic Chromium in the Vicinity of the Spin Flip Temperature....Pages 259-263
Excitation Spectrum of Magnetic Impurities in Metals....Pages 265-272
Dynamics of Magnetic Moments and 4f Charges in Intermediate Valence Compounds....Pages 273-277
Physical Properties of BaVS 3 and Their Dependence on Stoichiometry....Pages 279-288
Study of the Anharmonic Self-Energy of the Transverse Optic Mode in CsI at 77 and 300 K by Dispersive Fourier Transform Spectrometry....Pages 289-294
Physics of Ferroelectric Fluids: The Discovery of a High-Speed Electro-Optic Switching Process in Liquid Crystals....Pages 295-301
The Application of Rutherford Backscattering Technique to Dental Hard Tissue....Pages 303-308
Resonance Detector as a New Tool for High Energy Transfer Inelastic Neutron Scattering Investigations....Pages 309-319
Phase Transition from Low-Temperature Normal Phase to High-Temperature Superionic Phase in The Cu 2-x Se System Studied by Means of X-Ray Diffraction....Pages 321-328
Dielectric Experiments on Concentrated Solutions of XF 2 :R 3+ ....Pages 329-335
Lattice Dynamics of LaNi 5 and Low-Energy Excitations of Deuterium in LaNi 5 D 6 ....Pages 337-342
Low Temperature Order-Disorder Transitions in Palladium Deuteride....Pages 343-352
Chemical Binding Energy of a Pair of Hydrogen Atoms in Palladium....Pages 353-358
Trends in the Electron-Phonon Coupling Parameter in Some Metal Hydrides....Pages 359-363
Ferromagnetic Resonance in Hydrogenated/Dehydrogenated LaNi 5 and FeTi....Pages 365-368
Electronic States of Small κ Superconducting Alloys....Pages 369-381
Magnetic Properties of a Superconducting Film....Pages 383-388
Electromagnetic Pinning in the Inhomogeneous Superconductors....Pages 389-398
A Systematic Investigation of the Structure and Superconducting Properties of Nb 3 Ge Prepared in a UHV System....Pages 399-404
Influence of Dissipative Processes on the Dispersion of Surface Plasmons in Superconductors....Pages 405-413
Influence of the Quasiparticle Lifetime on the Surface Impedance of Superconducting Nb 3 Sn....Pages 415-420
Stationary and Nonstationary Flow of He II....Pages 421-423
Self-Trapped Excitations in Solid and Liquid Helium....Pages 425-432
Back Matter....Pages 433-438
....Pages 439-444

✦ Subjects

Solid State Physics;Spectroscopy and Microscopy