Anomalous Effects in Simple Metals - Hardcover

Overhauser, Albert

9783527408597: Anomalous Effects in Simple Metals

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3527408592 ISBN 13: 9783527408597

Publisher: Wiley-VCH, 2010

Using potassium as an example, this carefully written work presents a unique approach to the anomalous effects in metals, resulting in knowledge that can be applied to similar materials. Written by the discoverer of a major effect in magnetic resonance spectroscopy named after him, this is a unique account of the magnetic and optical properties of potassium. The main text is followed by 60 reprints of papers, each accompanied by a foreword explaining the context and perspective.

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Review:

"Using potassium as an example, this work presents a unique approach to the anomalous effects in metals, resulting in knowledge that can be applied to similar materials." (ETDE Energy database, 14 February 2011)

From the Back Cover:

This volume on the physics of simple metals features a collection of articles constituting the seminal contributions that Albert Warner Overhauser made to this field with a view toward its future as derived from his own research. He was attracted to simple metals like potassium at an early time (1951) because simple metals allowed him to study the effect of interacting electrons which are responsible for the many interesting and fundamental phenomena exhibited by these simple metals. This research area is now called "emergent phenomena" which address the question of "how do complex phenomena emerge from simple ingredients". This topic remains at the forefront of condensed matter physics, as cited in the present decadal study by the US National Research Council Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 2010 Committee entitled "The Science of the World Around Us".

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