The Universality of Physics - A Festschrift in Honor of Deng Feng Wang
Contributors: Ramzi R. Khuri (Editor); James T. Liu (Editor); Feng Chen (Editor); Wenbiao Gan (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: December 27, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780306467035
Subjects: Condensed matter physics (liquids & solids); Physics (General); Science; Science/Mathematics; Technology / Material Science; Congresses; Physics
First sentence: Even the basic idea of a spin liquid state of singlet pair bonds is not original with me, having been proposed in various contexts by Landau and by Pauling himself (as a theory of metals), long before I suggested it as a possible state of the CuO2 planes of the cuprate superconductors on the basis that spins 1/2 in 2D would be particularly susceptible to it.