High Magnetic Fields

The quantum Hall effect, low-dimensional systems, vortices and superconductivity, high-resolution NMR and EPR spectroscopy - all these and many other landmark contributions of high-magnetic-field physics to solid state science, analytical chemistry and structural biology are presented in this book. Each chapter describes the key concepts and future prospects in the corresponding field. The text can be read at different levels: researchers will find depth and insight, while students will come to understand the basic concepts. This book, written by leading scientists, will serve as a reference work on high-magnetic-field science for many years to come.

This book is addressed to all scientists interested in the use of high magnetic ? elds and in the use of high-? eld facilities around the world. In particular it will help young scientists and newcomers to the topic to gain a better understanding in areas such as condensed matter physics, in which the magnetic ? eld plays a key role either as a parameter controlling the Hamiltonian, or as an experimental tool to probe the underlying mechanism. This concerns mostly strongly correlated and (or) low dimensional systems. Rather than covering all these subjects in detail, the philosophy here is to give essential physical concepts in some of the most active ? elds, which have been quickly growing in the last ten to twenty years. Besides its role as a physical parameter in condensed matter physics, a large magnetic ? eld is essential to Electron Paramagentic Resonance (EPR) and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopies. The state of art of high resolution NMRin liquids and solids and high frequency EPRapplied to ? elds like chemistry and biology are also reviewed in this volume. The ? rst series of chapters is devoted to the integer and the Fractional Qu- tum Hall E? ects (FQHE) in two-dimensional electron systems. C. Glattli brushes an historical background and a comprehensive review of transport phenomena in these systems, including recent developments on the mesoscopic electronic transport at the edges of quantum Hall samples, chiral Luttinger liquids and fractional excitations. R.

Quantum Hall Effect: Macroscopic and Mesoscopic Electron Transport. - Theories of the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect. - Magneto-optics of Composite Fermions. - Stripe and Bubble Phases in Quantum Hall Systems. - Low Dimensional Magnets. - Frustrated Quantum Magnets. - NMR Studies of Low-Dimensional Quantum Antiferromagnets. - Magnetized States of Quantum Spin Chains. - Electronic Phases of Low-Dimensional Conductors. - Two Prototypes of One-Dimensional Conductors: (TM)2X and Cuprate Spin Ladders. - Nucleation of Superconductivity in Low-Dimensional Systems Under Magnetic Fields. - Superconductivity Under High Magnetic Fields in Low-Dimensional Organic Salts. - Vortex Phases. - Colossal Magnetoresistive Oxides in High Magnetic Fields. - Half-Metallic Ferromagnets. - Effects of Electron Electron Interactions Near the Metal-Insulator Transition in Indium-Oxide Films. - Interference Effects in Disordered Insulators. - High Resolution NMR of Biomolecules. - High-Resolution Solid-State NMR. - High Frequency EPR Spectroscopy. - Pulsed-High Field/High-Frequency EPR Spectroscopy.