Interplay between Electronic, Magnetic and Structural Degrees of Freedom in Crystalline Transition Metal Compounds

Crystalline Transition Metal Compounds (TMC) show a diverse amount of physical properties. They can be from good metals to semiconductors or insulators, and they can develop intriguing ordered phases such as ferromagnetism or superconductivity. It is the subtle interplay between their electronic, ma...

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Autor: Otero Fumega, Adolfo
Tipo de documento: tese
Data de publicação:2021
País:España
Recursos:Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (USC)
Repositório:Minerva. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
Idioma:inglês
OAI Identifier:oai:minerva.usc.gal:10347/26991
Acesso em linha:http://hdl.handle.net/10347/26991
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:Materias::Investigación::22 Física::2211 Física del estado sólido::221110 Estados electrónicos
Materias::Investigación::22 Física::2211 Física del estado sólido::221117 Propiedades magnéticas
Materias::Investigación::22 Física::2211 Física del estado sólido::221129 Propiedades térmicas de los sólidos
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Resumo:Crystalline Transition Metal Compounds (TMC) show a diverse amount of physical properties. They can be from good metals to semiconductors or insulators, and they can develop intriguing ordered phases such as ferromagnetism or superconductivity. It is the subtle interplay between their electronic, magnetic and structural degrees of freedom that leads to those different ground state properties and phase transitions. This heterogeneous behaviour makes TMC highly interesting from a technological point of view, but also from a more fundamental perspective. In this thesis we study from a theoretical point of view the interplay between the electronic, magnetic and structural degrees of freedom in TMC. The theoretical aspects and methods presented here together with the studies on representative TMC provide a reliable source of fundamental understanding in the contemporary area of Condensed Matter Physics.