MUON SPIN ROTAT RELAX RESO ISMP 147 C

Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-0-19-959647-8
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 504 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 1040 g

Primarily intended for postgraduate students and researchers in the fields of condensed matter science, chemical physics and material science, who plan to use the muon spin rotation, relaxation amd resonance (µSR) techniques, this book combines for the first time a detailed discussion of the physical information contained in the measured polarisation functions with real-life examples taken from the literature. It is divided in three main parts. The first part presents some typical results of the application of µSR and explains the basic principles involved. The second part is the core of this book. It presents a comprehensive discussion of the measured polarisation functions. In the third part we analyse in four chapters selected examples taken from the following fields: diffusion properties of muon and muonium, magnetism, superconductivity, and muonium centres in materials. The book is completed by an epilogue and eight appendices.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate students and researchers working in the fields of condensed matter science, chemical physics and material science.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Yaouanc, Alain

Dalmas de Réotier, Pierre

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Physik Quantenphysik Hochenergiephysik
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Angewandte Physik Chemische Physik
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Thermodynamik Festkörperphysik, Kondensierte Materie
• Technische Wissenschaften Maschinenbau | Werkstoffkunde Technische Mechanik | Werkstoffkunde Werkstoffkunde, Materialwissenschaft: Forschungsmethoden
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Quantenphysik Teilchenphysik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: A short survey of ìSR research

- 2: Recording data and extracting the polarisation functions

- 3: Basics of muon and muonium polarisation functions

- 4: Miscellaneous techniques

- 5: The magnetic field at the muon site

- 6: Muon polarisation functions: field distribution approach

- 7: Muon polarisation functions: quantum approach

- 8: Muonium polarisation functions

- 9: Muon and muonium centre diffusion

- 10: Investigation of magnetic materials

- 11: Investigation of superconductors

- 12: Muonium centres in materials

- 13: Epilogue: trends for the future

- Appendices

- A: Handling experimental data

- B: Polarisation functions: a summary

- C: Mathematical concepts and formulae

- D: Laboratory and crystal reference frames

- E: Translational symmetry and space Fourier transform

- F: Correlation functions and linear response theory

- G: Nuclear data relevant to ìSR

- H: f and 3d electronic shell data

Über Autor(innen)

Alain Yaouanc graduated from the University Joseph Fourier of Grenoble, France, in 1982. During his studies he spent about one year at CERN (Geneva, Switzerland). After his PhD, he spent one year as a postdoctoral scientist in the group of Bob Heffner at Los Alamos National Laboratory (USA). This group was involved in the
investigation of condensed matter using positive muon spin rotation and relaxation techniques. Since 1983 he has been working as a physicist at the Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA) in Grenoble.
; Pierre Dalmas de Réotier took his PhD at the Centre d''Etudes Nucléaires de Grenoble in 1990. In 1991he took up a Post-doctoral fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, studying spin dynamics in intermetallic systems at the Hahn-Meitner Institute in Berlin. Since 1992 he has been a Researcher at CEA Grenoble, and took his Habilitation diploma from University Joseph Fourier (Grenoble) in 2006.