Stripes and Related Phenomena (Selected Topics in Superconductivity Volume 8)

Features

• Cover Type: Hard Cover with 300 pages
• Published by: Springer
• Edition: 1st Edition January 31, 2001
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0306464195
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0306464195
• Book Dimensions: 10 x 6.2 x 1.6 inches
• Weighs: 2.9 pounds

Product Description
This book is a collection of papers in the field of stripes and high Tc superconductivity. The most relevant theoretical and experimental contributions from experts in the field of stripes, presented at the Second International Conference on Stripes and High Tc Superconductivity, are selected for publication. The book includes contributions on other stripe phases observed in manganites, nikelates, spin ladders, and heterostructures. Since a large stream of research in a growing community is converging towards the stripe scenario, this book serves as an important reference in the field of striped phases and high Tc superconductivity.
The problem of high Tc superconductors has been a central issue in solid-state physics since 1987. After the discovery of high Tc superconductivity (HTSC) in doped perovskites, it was realized that HTSC appears in an unknown complex electronic phase of condensed matter. In the early years, all theories of HTSC were focused on the physics of a homogeneous 2D metal with large electron-electron correlations or on a 2D polaron gas. Only after 1990 a novel paradigm started to emerge in which this 2D metallic phase is described as an inhomogeneous metal. This was the outcome of several experimental evidences of phase separation at low doping.
Following the discovery by the Rome Group in 1992 that `the changes move freely mainly in one direction like the water running in the grooves in corrugated iron foil', a new scenario for understanding superconductivity in high Tc superconductors was opened. Since the charges move like rivers, the physics of these materials shifts towards the physics of novel mesoscopic heterostructures and complex electronic solids. Therefore, understanding the striped phases in the perovskites not only provides an opportunity to understand the anomalous metallic state of cuprate superconductors, but also suggests a way to design new materials of technological importance. The stripes are begetting a field of general scientific interest.

Reader Reviews
The book gives a complete panorama of the different models proposed to explain high Tc superconductivity by stripe scenarios. The introduction by Alex Müller provides a historical perspective of the evolution of the "phase separation" scenario since 1992. Experiments and theories of the stripe ordering due to spin-charge phase separation, charge fluctuations and local lattice distortions in correlated electronic systems are described by top level scientists. The chapter by A. Bianconi et al. solves the problem of the mysterious phase diagram of superconducting cuprate perovkites by introducing for the first time a new physical variable: the local strain, or micro-strain, of the Cu-O bond due to lattice mismatch. The local strain tunes the electronic system to a strain quantum critical point (QCP) for the formation of mesoscopic bubbles of superconducting stripes or "superstripes". The superconducting critical temperature, Tc, reaches the maximum at this strain quantum critical point (QCP) for superstripes formation. These authors shift the focus from the spin-charge long range static charge ordered striped phases, detected by Tranquada by neutron scattering in Sr doped La214 at 1/8 doping to short range and fast fluctuating bubbles of charge-lattice stripes detected by third generation x-rays synchrotron radiation sources. This book is a key tool for advancing in the field of new non homogeneous superconductors that could drive to room temperature superconductors.