In materials with strong local Coulomb interactions, simple defects such as atomic
substitutions strongly affect both macroscopic and local properties of the system. A …

Different families of thermoelectric materials have been investigated since the discovery of
thermoelectric effects in the mid-19th century, materials mostly belonging to the family of …

The superconducting transition temperatures (T c's) of optimally doped HgBa 2 Ca m− 1 Cu
m O 2 m+ 2+ δ (Hg 1: 2: m-1: m) with m= 1, 2, and 3 and Hg 1− x Pb x Ba 2 Ca 2 Cu 3 O 8+ δ …

Starting from first principles, this book introduces the closely related phenomena of Bose
condensation and Cooper pairing, in which a very large number of single particles or pairs …

Upon introducing charge carriers into the copper–oxygen sheets of the enigmatic lamellar
cuprates, the ground state evolves from an insulator to a superconductor and eventually to a …

What kind of information on the electrons' organisation in solids is yielded by measuring
their thermoelectric response? Fundamentals of Thermoelectricity gives an account of our …

The Seebeck coefficient of a metal is expected to display a linear temperature dependence
in the zero-temperature limit. To attain this regime, it is often necessary to cool the system …

The Van Hove singularity (VHS) provides a paradigm for the study of the role of peaks in the
density of states (dos) on electronic properties. More importantly, it appears to play a major …

THE magnetic field penetration depth λ is a basic parameter of superconductivity, related to
ns/m*(superconducting carrier density/effective mass) as λ-2∝ ns/m* in the limit where the …

The muon spin depolarization rate σ was measured in overdoped Tl 2 Ba 3 CuO 6+ δ. σ (T→
0) was found to decrease proportional to the superconducting transition temperature T c as …