Theoretical and Experimental Aspects of Valence Fluctuations and Heavy Fermions

by L.C. Gupta

Section 1 - Invited Papers.- Where are we in the mixed valence story?.- The resonating valence bond state and high-Tc superconductivity in La2CuO4+.- Actinides and heavy fermions.- Cooperative phenomena in the heavy fermion systems UBe13 and U1-x ThxBe13.- Phase transitions in heavy-electron materials.- Understanding photoemission spectra in uranium based heavy fermion systems.- Experiments on the heavy electron super conductors UBe13 and URu2Si2.- Low temperature properties of CeCu5 and related compounds.- Phenomenological relationships in heavy fermi liquids.- The coherent state in the heavy fermion CeCu6.- Correlations in heavy fermions.- Heavy electron metals and anisotropic superconductors.- Microscopic theory of strongly correlated fermi systems.- Monte carlo simulation of magnetic impurities in metals.- Fermi surfaces of mixed valent and heavy fermion metals.- Effect of f-d coulomb correlations and many-body resonance in intermediate valence f-photoemission.- Pressure dependence of the specific heat of heavy-fermion compounds.- Response of Kondo lattice systems to pressure.- Heavy fermions and coherent and incoherent valence fluctuations in cerium systems.- Coherence in CePd3.- Phase diagram of the Kondo lattice.- Direct 4f band model in CeRh3B2.- The fermi surface of CeSb.- X-ray absorption spectroscopy on mixed-valent materials.- The role of compound electronic structure in Ce-valence instabilities M. Croft, R. Neifeld, B. Qi, G. Liang, ,I. Perez, S. Gunapala, F. Lu,.- Correlation between valence and electronic structure as studied by EXAFS in RM2X2 compounds.- Mixed valence in chemistry.- The interatomic intermediate valence state of insulating correlated Oxides CeO2, PrO2 and TbO2.- High-energy spectroscopy of convalency versus mixed valency.- Raman and Brillouin scattering spectroscopy of intermediate valence and heavy fermion compounds.- Far-infrared properties of intermediate valence-and heavy fermion materials.- Spin correlations in heavy fermion systems.- Paramagnetic scattering from some Ce and Yb based valence Kondo-lattice systems.- Nuclear magnetic resonance in heavy fermion systems.- 151Eu Mössbauer studies of some valence fluctuating systems.- Effects of thorium doping in (U,Th)Pt3, (U,Th)Be13.- Low temperature magneto transport in Yb1-xTmxS.- Lattice instabilities in heavy fermion superconductors D. Wohlleben (see page 707).- Section 2 - Contributory Papers.- Nuclear magnetic resonance study of the heavy-fermion system URu2Si2.- Resistivity studies on UM2Si2 (M = Rh, Ir, Ru, Os).- Low-temperature specific heat of UBe13.- Normal state magnetic behavior of (U1-xREx)Be13 pseudobinaries.- Raman scattering from spin fluctuations and phonons in UPt3.- High pressure investigations on the heavy fermion material UPt3 at 300 K.- Microscopic study of magnetism in heavy electron U2Zn17 by ?+SR.- f-band narrowing in uranium intermetallics.- Heavy electron behavior in the system UPd2-xAu Sn (0 ? x ? 2).- Magnetoresistive effects in the upper critical fields of heavy fermion superconductors.- The role of Re in the magnetic properties of U(Fe1-x Re)2.- Manifestation of impurity-like behaviour of 5f in electron spectroscopy of UxY1-x B4.- Soft X-ray absorption spectra of uranium intermetallics.- L3 X-ray absorption in compounds of U, Np and Pu.- Pressure-induced electronic structure changes in USb.- Resistivity and susceptibility studies on ceCu6-xAux alloys.- LIII-edge study of the CeCu2-x Nix Si2 series of compounds.- Magnetization studies of CeCu2Si2-xGex alloys.- Evolution with pressure of a heavy mass ground state in chemically expanded CeRu2Si2.- Competition of magnetism and Kondo effect in (Ce,Y)Pd2Si2 compounds.- Electrical behaviour of heavy electron compounds.- Field Induced magnetic saturation effects in (Ce-La)Ru2Si2 and (Ce-Y)Ru2Si2 Kondo lattices.- Influence of substitutions on the low-temperature behaviour of CePd3.- Pressure dependence of the resistivity of Ce3Al.- A new magne

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First published January 1, 1988