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10 Cooperative Phenomena in Electron Systems: Superconductivity 10.1 Phonon-Mediated Cooper Pairing Mechanism 10.2 Direct Measurements of the Superconductor Energy Gap 10.3 Josephson Effect 10.4 Meissner Effect 10.5 SQUID 10.6 High-Temperature Superconductivity 10.A Fourier Transform of the Coulomb Potential 10.B The Josephson Effect Theory 10.C Derivation of the Critical Magnetic Field in Type I Superconductors

      17  11 Cooperative Phenomena in Electron Systems: Ferromagnetism 11.1 Paramagnetism and Ferromagnetism 11.2 The Ising Model 11.3 Magnetic Structures 11.4 Magnetic Domains 11.5 Magnetic Materials 11.6 Giant Magnetoresistance 11.A The Elementary Magnetic Moment of an Electron Produced by its Orbital Movement 11.B Pauli Paramagnetism 11.C Magnetic Domain Walls

      18  12 Ferroelectricity as a Cooperative Phenomenon 12.1 The Theory of Ferroelectric Phase Transition 12.2 Ferroelectric Domains 12.3 The Piezoelectric Effect and Its Application in Ferroelectric Devices 12.4 Other Application Fields of Ferroelectrics

      19  13 Other Examples of Cooperative Phenomena in Electron Systems 13.1 The Mott Metal–Insulator Transition 13.2 Classical and Quantum Hall Effects 13.3 Topological Insulators 13.A Electron Energies and Orbit Radii in the Simplified Bohr Model of a Hydrogen-like Atom

      20  Further Reading

      21  List of Prominent Scientists Mentioned in the Book

      22  Index

      23  End User License Agreement

      List of Tables

      1 Chapter 1Table 1.1 Summary of possible symmetries in regular crystals.Table 1.2 Possible types of rotation axes permitted by translational symmetry...

      2 Chapter 4Table 4.1 Specific electrical resistivity of selected metals.Table 4.2 Defects' contribution to electrical resistivity of Al.

      3 Chapter 5Table 5.1 Fermi energies for selected metals.Table 5.2 Thermal conductivity in the selected metals.

      4 Chapter 6Table 6.1 Bandgaps in the selected semiconductors.

      5 Chapter 7Table 7.1 The values of work function in selected metals.

      6 Chapter 10Table 10.1 Critical temperatures (Tc in Kelvins) and critical magnetic fields...

      7 Chapter 11Table 11.1 Magnetic characteristics of the selected permanent magnets.

      8 Chapter 12Table 12.1 Piezoelectric modulidik (in pC/N) for selected materials.Table 12.2 Band gaps for selected ferroelectrics.

      List of Illustrations

      1 Chapter 1Figure 1.1 High-resolution scanning transmission electron microscopy image o...Figure 1.2 Structural motifs in silicon dioxide (SiO2): (a) – ordered atomic...Figure 1.3 Dense filling of 2D space by spatially ordered, though non-period...Figure 1.4 Dense filling of 2D space by regular geometrical figures.Figure 1.5 Dodecahedron sculpted by 12 pentagonal faces.Figure 1.6 Icosahedron sculpted by 20 triangular faces.Figure 1.7 Regular pentagon with edges equal ap and diagonals equal dp. The ...Figure 1.8 Unit cells of the following side-centered Bravais lattices: A-typ...Figure 1.9 Unit cells of the following centered Bravais lattices: (a) face-c...Figure 1.10 Lattice translations (red arrows) in the rhombohedral setting of...Figure 1.11 The presence of inversion center (C) in diamond structure (a) an...Figure 1.12 Illustration of the Biot–Savart law (Eq. (1.7)).Figure 1.13 Illustration of the wave scattering in a periodic medium.Figure 1.14 Sketch of a crystal plane, normal to the vector of reciprocal la...Figure 1.15 Graphical interrelation between wavevectors of the incident (ki)...Figure 1.16 The traces of isoenergetic surfaces (red curves) in reciprocal s...Figure 1.17 Illustration of the restrictions imposed by translational symmet...Figure 1.18 Illustration of the simultaneous appearance of several high-orde...Figure

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