Physics of amorphous metals / N.P. Kovalenko, Yu. P. Krasny, U. Krey.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Kovalenko, N. P. (Nikolaĭ Pavlovich)

Contributor:

• Krasnyĭ, I︠U︡. P. (I︠U︡riĭ Petrovich)
• Krey, Uwe.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Amorphous substances.
• Metallic glasses.

Physical Description:

viii, 280 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Wiley-VCH, [2001]

Contents:

• 1 On the structure of amorphous metals 1
• 1.1 Introduction: preparation of amorphous metals, and simple models 1
• 1.2 The Radial Distribution Function and the Structure Function 3
• 1.3 Structural models of glassy metals 7
• 2 The pseudopotential method 15
• 2.1 An effective Hamiltonian for the electron-ion system of elemental metals 15
• 2.2 Pseudopotential theory 18
• 2.3 Model pseudopotentials 25
• 2.4 Microscopic theory of the homogeneous electron gas 29
• 2.5 The effective interaction between ions in liquid or amorphous metals 37
• 2.6 The effective two-particle ion-ion interaction (to second order in the pseudopotential) 47
• 2.7 Effective ion-ion pair interaction to cubic order in the pseudopotential 52
• 2.8 Many-particle interactions in metallic hydrogen 58
• 2.9 Computer calculations of the electronic structure in metallic amorphous alloys 69
• 3 Atomic properties of amorphous metals: ow-energy excitations 77
• 3.1 Experiments on the atomic dynamics in glasses 77
• 3.2 A tunnelling model 80
• 3.3 A quasi-phonon model for amorphous metals; heat capacity at moderately low temperatures 99
• 3.4 The quasi-phonon contribution to the heat conductivity and sound absorption at moderately low temperatures 111
• 3.5 Beyond the quasi-phonon approximation 129
• 4 Magnetic properties of amorphous metals 135
• 4.1 Review of experimental results 135
• 4.2 Thermodynamic properties of amorphous ferromagnets near the Curie temperature 139
• 4.3 The spectrum of quasi-magnon excitations in amorphous ferromagnets 150
• 4.4 Low-temperature magnetic behavior of amorphous ferromagnets 156
• 4.5 Beyond the quasi-magnon approach: computer simulations 167
• 4.6 The thermodynamics of amorphous ferromagnets 169
• 4.7 Itinerant magnetism and itinerant spin-glass behavior in amorphous alloys 171
• 5 Superconductivity of glassy metals 179
• 5.1 The Eliashberg equation for amorphous metals 179
• 5.2 The electron-phonon coupling constant and the superconducting transition temperature for simple amorphous metals 198
• 5.3 Superconducting properties of binary alloys of simple amorphous metals 205
• Appendix A Calculation of the free energy of amorphous metals 217
• Appendix B Calculation of the free energy of amorphous ferromagnets 220
• Appendix C Derivation of the Eliashberg equation for amorphous metals 238
• Appendix D Simplification of the Eliashberg equation 256.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

3527403159

OCLC:

45647848