Ho Lai-yin. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 53-56). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 2 --- Peierls Transition --- p.3 / Chapter 2.1 --- The Start of the Idea --- p.3 / Chapter 2.2 --- Peierls Transition in Second Quantization Representation --- p.5 / Chapter 2.3 --- Effect of Peierls Transition on an Antiferromagnetic Chain --- p.6 / Chapter 2.4 --- Evidence of Spin-Peierls Transition --- p.9 / Chapter 2.5 --- Materials with Spin-Peierls Transition --- p.11 / Chapter 3 --- Mean Field Calculations --- p.15 / Chapter 3.1 --- Jordan-Wigner Transformation --- p.15 / Chapter 3.2 --- Diagonalization of the XY Model --- p.17 / Chapter 3.3 --- Hartree-Fock Approximation --- p.19 / Chapter 3.4 --- Quantum Effect of Lattice --- p.21 / Chapter 4 --- Bosonization --- p.25 / Chapter 4.1 --- Continuum Limit --- p.25 / Chapter 4.2 --- Bosonization --- p.28 / Chapter 4.3 --- Relaxation of the Restriction on Lattice Distortion --- p.36 / Chapter 4.4 --- More Discussion on the Phase Hamiltonian --- p.39 / Chapter 4.5 --- Limitation of the Bosonization Technique and the Phase Hamil- tonian Approach --- p.41 / Chapter 5 --- Effect of Doping Impurities on Spin-Peierls Model --- p.43 / Chapter 5.1 --- Experimental Results --- p.43 / Chapter 5.2 --- Analytical Calculations of Doping Effect --- p.44 / Chapter 5.3 --- Criticism on the Calculations --- p.50 / Chapter 6 --- Summary and Conclusions --- p.52 / Bibliography --- p.53 / Chapter A --- Random-Phase Approximation --- p.57
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:cuhk.edu.hk/oai:cuhk-dr:cuhk_323402 |
| Date | January 2001 |
| Contributors | Ho, Lai-yin., Chinese University of Hong Kong Graduate School. Division of Physics. |
| Source Sets | The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Language | English, Chinese |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, bibliography |
| Format | print, viii, 59 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm. |
| Rights | Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons “Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International” License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) |
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