Low-Dimensional Molecular Metals Book

List of Symbols and Abbreviations     XIII
Introduction: Historical Remarks     1
Basic Concepts     7
Charge Transfer     7
Molecular Orbitals and Transfer Integrals     8
Structural Aspects     13
Molecular Building Blocks     13
Crystal Structures     16
Quasi-One-Dimensional Compounds     16
Quasi-Two-Dimensional Compounds     19
Three-dimensional Compounds     25
Anion Ordering and Glassy Phenomena     29
Normal-State Properties     37
Tight-Binding Model     37
Fermi Surfaces and Low Dimensionality     42
Electronic Properties     45
Transport and Optical Properties     45
Thermal and Magnetic Properties     63
Instabilities Involving Spin- and Charge-Degrees of Freedom     75
Charge- and Spin-Density-Waves     75
Spin-Peierls State     81
Charge-Ordering Phenomena     83
Many-Body Effects     87
Phase Diagrams     91
Magnetic-Field Effects     99
Electron Motion in Magnetic Fields     100
Semi-Classical Description in k-Space     100
Angular-Dependent Magnetoresistance Oscillations     101
Magneto-Optic Resonances     106
Magnetic Quantum Oscillations     109
Landau Levels and Lifshitz-Kosevich Theory     109
Magnetic Breakdown and Quantum Interference     117
Two-Dimensionality Effect     120
Superconducting Vortex States     123
Magnetic Exchange-Interaction     126
High-Magnetic Field States     128
Field-Induced Cascade Transitions to SDWs and Anomalous High-Field States     128
Field-Induced Destruction of CDW and Anomalous High-Field States     133
Approaching the Quantum Limit     138
Superconductivity     141
Occurrence of Superconductivity in Molecular Metals     141
Ginzburg-Landau Theory     143
The Superconducting Phase Transition     147
Anisotropy and Superconducting Fluctuations     148
Pressure Dependence of T[subscript c]     153
Disorder     157
Superconducting Parameters     164
(TMTSF)[subscript 2]X     165
(BEDT-TTF)[subscript 2]X and (BEDT-TSF)[subscript 2]X     166
The Superconducting Mixed State     170
Overview     170
Basic Concepts of Vortex Matter in Quasi-Two-Dimensional Systems     172
Experimental Findings for [kappa]-(BEDT-TTF)[subscript 2]X     175
Superconducting Order-Parameter     188
On the Pairing Mechanism     210
Phenomena of Interacting [pi]- and d-Electrons     219
(DCNQI)[subscript 2]Cu     219
Crystal Structure and Electrical Conductivity     219
Reentrant Metal-Insulator Transition     221
(BEDT-TSF)[subscript 2]FeX[subscript 4] (X=Cl,Br)     224
Crystal Structures and Transfer Integrals     225
Conductivity and Magnetism     227
Magnetic Interactions and Mean-Field Theories     229
Anomalous Metallic States     232
Antiferromagnetic Insulating States     236
Magnetic Field-Induced Transitions     241
Epilogue     247
References     249
Index     291