The Physics of Organic Superconductors and Conductors
By: Andrei Lebed (Editor)
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Historical Surveys | |
Historical Approach to Organic Superconductivity | p. 3 |
One-Dimensional Conductors | p. 3 |
Two-Dimensional Conductors | p. 10 |
Conclusion | p. 12 |
References | p. 13 |
From Sliding Charge Density Wave to Charge Ordering | p. 17 |
References | p. 24 |
Field-Induced Spin-Density Waves and Dimensional Crossovers | p. 25 |
Introduction | p. 25 |
Peierls Spin(Charge)-Density Wave Instability | p. 26 |
Field-Induced Spin-Density Wave Instability | p. 28 |
Quantized Nesting Model | p. 32 |
Momentum Quantization Law | p. 33 |
Metal-FISDW Phase Transition Line | p. 34 |
Phase Transitions Between FISDW Sub-Phases | p. 35 |
Beyond Quantum Nesting Model | p. 38 |
References | p. 39 |
Cascade of FISDW Phases: Wave Vector Quantization and its Consequences | p. 41 |
Introduction | p. 41 |
FISDW Wave Vector Quantization | p. 42 |
Quantum Cascade of Phase Transitions | p. 42 |
Novel Quantized Hall Effect | p. 44 |
References | p. 45 |
General Reviews | |
La Tour des Sels de Bechgaard | p. 49 |
Introduction to the Bechgaard Salts | p. 49 |
Crystal Structure and Electronic Band Structure | p. 50 |
The Ambient-Pressure Spin-Density Wave State in (TMTSF)2PF6, and Effect of Pressure | p. 52 |
A Broader Context for Correlation Effects: the TMTTF Salts | p. 53 |
Magnetic Field Effects in the Bechgaard Salts | p. 54 |
A Little History and a Few Equations | p. 54 |
Field-Induced Spin-Density Waves | p. 57 |
Angular Magnetoresistance Oscillations in Quasi-One-Dimensional Conductors | p. 60 |
Superconductivity in the Bechgaard Salts | p. 67 |
Early Investigations of the Superconducting State | p. 67 |
Early Evidence for Unconventional Superconductivity | p. 68 |
Recent Investigations: Triplet Superconductivity | p. 70 |
Phases and Properties Near the SDW-Superconductor Boundary | p. 79 |
NMR Evidence for Phase Segregation for P ≈ Pc | p. 80 |
Critical Field Enhancement Close to the Superconductor-SDW Phase Boundary | p. 81 |
Conclusions and Conundra | p. 82 |
References | p. 84 |
Physical Properties of Quasi-Two-Dimensional Organic Conductors in Strong Magnetic Fields | p. 89 |
Introduction | p. 89 |
Crystal Structure | p. 90 |
Landau Quantization and Quantum Oscillations | p. 91 |
Lifshitz and Kosevich (L-K) Formula | p. 93 |
Temperature Reduction Factor | p. 95 |
Dingle Reduction Factor | p. 95 |
Spin-Splitting Reduction Factor | p. 97 |
Other Oscillatory Effects | p. 97 |
Effective Mass | p. 100 |
Magnetic Breakdown | p. 100 |
Quantum Interference | p. 102 |
Internal Field | p. 105 |
Special and Related Topics | p. 107 |
Field Induced Superconductivity | p. 107 |
Angular Dependent Magnetoresistance and Fermi Surface Topologies | p. 109 |
High Field Aspects of the ¿-(BEDT-TTF)2 MHg(SCN)4 Salts | p. 114 |
Discussion | p. 121 |
Summary | p. 122 |
References | p. 123 |
Magnetic Properties of Organic Conductors and Superconductors as Dimensional Crossovers | p. 127 |
Introduction | p. 127 |
Our Goals | p. 131 |
Dimensional Crossovers in a Magnetic Field | p. 132 |
Open Fermi Surfaces | p. 132 |
"Two-Dimensionalization" of an Electron Motion | p. 134 |
Periodic and Quasi-Periodic Trajectories | p. 135 |
"One-Dimensionalization" of Electron Motion | p. 137 |
Lebed Magic Angles as 1D → 2D Crossovers | p. 138 |
Interference Commensurate Oscillations as 1D → 2D Crossovers | p. 140 |
Quantum Mechanics of Dimensional Crossovers | p. 143 |
Momentum Quantization Law | p. 143 |
3D → 2D Crossovers | p. 146 |
3D → 1D Crossovers | p. 146 |
Lebed Magic Angles as 1D → 2D Crossovers | p. 148 |
Interference Commensurate Oscillations as 2D → 1D Crossovers | p. 151 |
Q2D Case: 3D → 2D Crossover and a Momentum Quantization Law | p. 154 |
Q2D Conductor: A Fully Quantum Mechanical Problem | p. 155 |
Angular Magnetoresistance Oscillations | p. 160 |
Lebed Magic Angles in a Metallic Phase | p. 160 |
Interference Commensurate Oscillations | p. 162 |
Field-Induced Spin-Density-Wave Phases | p. 164 |
Peierls Spin(Charge)-Density-Wave Instability | p. 165 |
Field-Induced Spin-Density-Wave Phases and 3D → 2D Crossovers | p. 167 |
Quantized Nesting Model | p. 171 |
Beyond Quantum Nesting Model | p. 177 |
Reentrant Superconductivity Phenomenon | p. 178 |
References | p. 181 |
Layered Organic Conductors in Strong Magnetic Fields | p. 185 |
Introduction | p. 185 |
Angle-Dependent Magnetoresistance Oscillations | p. 187 |
Closed Orbits | p. 189 |
Open Orbits | p. 193 |
Other Effects of the Field Orientation on the Semiclassical Magnetoresistance | p. 200 |
In-Plane Field Orientation | p. 200 |
Coherence Peak | p. 202 |
Breakdown of the Interlayer Coherence as Seen from the Magnetotransport | p. 204 |
Magnetic Quantum Oscillations | p. 208 |
Lifshitz-Kosevich Formula for the de Haas-van Alphen Effect | p. 208 |
Shubnikov-de Haas Oscillations | p. 209 |
Quantum Oscillations in Organic Metals | p. 210 |
High-Field Studies of the Low-Temperature Electronic State in ¿-(BEDT-TTF)4 MHg(SCN)4 | p. 215 |
Magnetotransport Properties and the Fermi Surface Reconstruction in the Salts with M = K, Tl, and Rb | p. 215 |
Magnetic Field-Temperature Phase Diagram: Evidence of a CDW Ground State | p. 220 |
Field-Induced CDW Transitions | p. 223 |
Other Organic Conductors: Probing and Controlling Electronic Properties by Strong Magnetic Fields | p. 226 |
ß and ß″ Salts | p. 226 |
¿-(BEDT-TTF)2X Salts | p. 228 |
¿ and ¿ Salts of (BETS) with Magnetic Anions | p. 231 |
Concluding Remarks | p. 234 |
References | p. 235 |
High-field Magnetoresistive Effects in Reduced-Dimensionality Organic Metals and Superconductors | p. 247 |
Introduction | p. 247 |
Intralayer Fermi-Surface Topologies | p. 249 |
High-Field Magnetotransport Effects | p. 252 |
Measurements of the Effective Fermi-Surface Dimensionality via the SQUIT Peak | p. 252 |
Mechanisms for Angle-Dependent Magnetoresistance Oscillations in Quasi-Two-Dimensional Organic Metals | p. 255 |
Further Clues about Dimensionality in the Resistivity Tensor Components | p. 256 |
High-Field Shubnikov-de Haas Measurements and Quasiparticle Scattering | p. 262 |
The Deduction of Quasiparticle Scattering Rates | p. 262 |
Charge-Density Waves at Fields above the Pauli Paramagnetic Limit | p. 265 |
New Quantum Fluid in Strong Magnetic Fields with Orbital Flux Quantization | p. 271 |
Summary | p. 271 |
References | p. 273 |
Energy and Dielectric Relaxations in Bechgaard-Fabre Salts | p. 277 |
Introduction | p. 277 |
Coulomb Interactions | p. 279 |
Charge Ordering and Ferroelectric Transition | p. 281 |
Low Frequency Permittivity in the SDW State of (TMTSF)2PF6 at Low Temperature | p. 281 |
First Experiments on (TMTTF)2X Indicating Charge Ordering | p. 283 |
Conductivity | p. 284 |
Dielectric Permittivity | p. 286 |
Ferroelectric Character of the Charge Ordered State | p. 288 |
Deuteration | p. 290 |
Discussion | p. 291 |
Thermodynamical Properties | p. 293 |
Lattice Contribution | p. 294 |
SDW and Sub-SDW Phase Transitions | p. 297 |
Low Energy Excitations | p. 301 |
Nonequilibrium Phenomena | p. 302 |
Effect of Magnetic Field | p. 306 |
Conclusions | p. 307 |
References | p. 309 |
Ferroelectricity and Charge Ordering in Quasi-ID Organic Conductors | p. 313 |
Introduction: History and Events | p. 313 |
Hierarchy of Phases in Quasi-1D Organic Conductors | p. 316 |
Structural Transitions of the Anion Ordering | p. 317 |
Charge Ordering Transitions | p. 319 |
Overlapping and Coexistence of Phases | p. 321 |
Electronic Mechanism of the Charge Ordering | p. 321 |
Electric Polarization and Ferroelectricity | p. 323 |
Electronic Properties | p. 323 |
Permittivity | p. 323 |
Conductivity | p. 326 |
Ferroelectric Mott-Hubbard Ground State | p. 328 |
Choosing the Theory Approach | p. 328 |
Ground State and Symmetry Breaking | p. 329 |
Elementary Excitations | p. 331 |
Solitons | p. 331 |
Effects of Subsequent Transitions: Spin-Charge Reconfinement and Combined Solitons | p. 333 |
Optics | p. 335 |
Optics: Collective and Mixed Modes | p. 335 |
Optics: Solitons | p. 337 |
Optics: Summary | p. 339 |
Fate of the Metallic TMTSF Subfamily | p. 340 |
Origin and Range of Basic Parameters | p. 341 |
Generic Origins of Basic Parameters: Interactions Among Electrons or with Phonons? | p. 341 |
Where are We? | p. 342 |
Conclusions and Perspectives | p. 344 |
References | p. 352 |
Interacting Electrons in Quasi-One-Dimensional Organic Superconductors | p. 357 |
Introduction | p. 357 |
Elements of Theory for Interacting Electrons in Low Dimension | p. 360 |
Some Results of the Bosonization Picture [20] | p. 363 |
The Role of Interchain Coupling | p. 365 |
The Fabre Salts Series | p. 368 |
The Generic (TM)2X Phase Diagram | p. 368 |
Longitudinal Transport | p. 369 |
Transverse Transport and Deconfinement | p. 371 |
Far Infrared Response in the (TM)2X Series | p. 373 |
The Ordered States at Low Temperature | p. 376 |
The Bechgaard Salts | p. 380 |
The Metallic Phase | p. 380 |
Pseudogap and Zero Frequency Mode in the Metallic Phase of (TMTSF)2X | p. 384 |
Quarter-Filled Compounds | p. 385 |
A Robust 1D Compound: (TTDM-TTF)2Au(mnt)2 | p. 387 |
The Spin-Density-Wave Phase | p. 387 |
Some Features of the Superconducting State | p. 390 |
Conclusion and Outlook | p. 405 |
References | p. 406 |
Unusual Properties of a Metallic Phase | |
Unusual Magic Angles Effects in Bechgaard Salts | p. 415 |
Introduction | p. 415 |
Fractional Magic Angle Effects in (TMTSF)2ReO4 | p. 416 |
Two Kinds of Angular Magnetoresistance Resonances of (TMTSF)2PF6: Pressure Dependence or Sample Dependence | p. 422 |
Bechgaard Salts Are Not Always One-Dimensional: (TMTSF)2FSO3 | p. 426 |
Summary | p. 430 |
References | p. 430 |
Versatile Method to Estimate Dimensionality of Q1D Fermi Surface by Third Angular Effect | p. 433 |
Third Angular Effect | p. 433 |
Origin of TAE | p. 435 |
Requirement to Observe TAE | p. 435 |
Semiclassical Picture of TAE | p. 437 |
Quantum Mechanical Picture of TAE | p. 442 |
Estimation of Dimensionality ty/tx by TAE | p. 444 |
Case of Two Pairs of Q1D Fermi Surfaces | p. 449 |
Pressure Dependence of the Dimensionality | p. 453 |
References | p. 455 |
Microwave Spectroscopy of Q1D and Q2D Organic Conductors | p. 457 |
Introduction | p. 457 |
The Periodic Orbit Resonance Phenomenon | p. 459 |
Modification of Theory for Realistic Crystal Structures | p. 462 |
Experimental Observation of POR for Q1D Systems | p. 464 |
(TMTSF)2ClO4 | p. 465 |
¿-(BEDT-TTF)2KHg(SCN)4 | p. 470 |
Open-Orbit POR in a Q2D System | p. 474 |
POR in Q2D Nodal Superconductors | p. 476 |
Discussion and Comparisons with Other Experiments | p. 477 |
Summary and Conclusions | p. 480 |
References | p. 481 |
Field-Induced Spin(Charge)-Density Wave Phases | |
Magnetic Field-Induced Spin-Density Waveand Spin-Density Wave Phases in (TMTSF)2PF6 | p. 487 |
Introduction | p. 487 |
Cyclotron Resonance on Open Orbits | p. 489 |
Experimental | p. 491 |
Observations | p. 491 |
Summary | p. 492 |
Novel Phases in the Field-Induced Spin-Density Wave | p. 493 |
Experimental | p. 494 |
Summary | p. 498 |
Rapid Oscillations | p. 498 |
Experimental | p. 500 |
On the Existence of Oscillations in Various Domains of the P-B-T Phase Space | p. 500 |
Existence of Delocalized States in the Spin-Ordered Phase | p. 502 |
Magnetoresistance Oscillations in a Tilted Field | p. 504 |
Temperature Dependence of the Oscillations | p. 504 |
Discussion | p. 507 |
Summary | p. 509 |
Coexistence of the Antiferromagnetic and Metallic Phases in (TMTSF)2PF6 | p. 509 |
Introduction | p. 509 |
The Idea ofthe Experiment | p. 511 |
Experiment | p. 513 |
Observations | p. 514 |
Discussion of the Results | p. 517 |
Inhomogeneous State: Phase Separation or Phase Mixing? | p. 518 |
Prehistory Effects | p. 520 |
Phase Separation at Zero Magnetic Field | p. 521 |
Summary | p. 523 |
Concluding Remark | p. 524 |
References | p. 524 |
Theory of the Quantum Hall Effectin Quasi-One-Dimensional Conductors | p. 529 |
Introduction to Quasi-One-Dimensional Conductors | p. 529 |
Hall Effect in the Normal State | p. 530 |
Introduction to the Quantum Hall Effect in the FISDW State | p. 530 |
Mathematical Theory of the FISDW | p. 532 |
Quantum Hall Effect as a Topological Invariant | p. 534 |
Coexistence ofSeveral Order Parameters | p. 535 |
Temperature Evolution of the Quantum Hall Effect | p. 536 |
Influence of the FISDW Motion on the Quantum Hall Effect | p. 538 |
Chiral Edge States | p. 541 |
Edges Perpendicular to the Chains | p. 542 |
Edges Parallel to the Chains | p. 543 |
Possibilities for Experimental Observation of the Chiral Edges States | p. 544 |
Generalization to the Three-Dimensional Quantum Hall Effect | p. 545 |
Conclusions and Open Questions | p. 546 |
References | p. 547 |
Orbitally Quantized Density-Wave States Perturbed from Equilibrium | p. 551 |
Introduction | p. 551 |
Critical State | p. 552 |
Model for Non-equilibrium Field-Induced Density-Wave States | p. 554 |
Materials of Interest | p. 554 |
Equilibrium Conditions | p. 557 |
Pinning and Non-equilibrium Thermodynamics | p. 558 |
Magnetotransport | p. 561 |
Uniform Transport | p. 562 |
Inhomogeneous Transport | p. 564 |
Ballistic Transport in a Bulk Chiral Metal | p. 564 |
Future Directions | p. 566 |
References | p. 567 |
Unconventional Density Waves in Organic Conductors and in Superconductors | p. 569 |
Introduction | p. 569 |
Mean-Field Theory | p. 571 |
Landau Quantization | p. 574 |
Angle Dependent Magnetoresistance (ADMR) | p. 575 |
¿-(BEDT-TTF)2MHg(SCN)4 Salts with M = K, Rb, and Tl | p. 575 |
Bechgaard Salts (TMTSF)2X | p. 577 |
¿-(ET)2 Salts, CeCoIn5, and YPrCO | p. 580 |
Giant Nernst Effect | p. 581 |
Concluding Remarks | p. 584 |
References | p. 585 |
Charge Density Waves in Strong Magnetic Fields | p. 589 |
Introduction | p. 589 |
Theoretical Background | p. 591 |
Discussion of Specific Regimes | p. 592 |
Regime of Perfect Nesting | p. 592 |
Regime of Imperfect Nesting | p. 594 |
Experiments | p. 596 |
¿-ET Compounds | p. 596 |
Perylene Compounds | p. 599 |
Blue Bronzes | p. 600 |
Conclusions | p. 601 |
References | p. 602 |
Unconventional Electronic Phases in (TMTSF)2X: The Case of (TMTSF)2ClO4 | p. 605 |
Introduction | p. 605 |
Structural Properties of the <$>{\rm ClO}_4^-<$> Anion Ordering | p. 606 |
AO vs. Cooling Rate | p. 607 |
AO under Pressure | p. 607 |
Discussion about the Anion Potential Value: Is it Small or Large? | p. 608 |
Relaxed State Properties | p. 609 |
Field Induced 3D-2D Crossover | p. 612 |
FISDW Phases: Some Key Features | p. 612 |
Concluding Remarks | p. 617 |
References | p. 617 |
Unconventional Superconducting Properties | |
Mott Transition and Superconductivityin Q2D Organic Conductors | p. 623 |
Introduction to Quasi-Two-Dimensional Organic Conductors | p. 623 |
Mott Transition | p. 624 |
Material Dependence of Normal-State Properties | p. 626 |
Spin Susceptibility | p. 626 |
NMR Relaxation Rate | p. 627 |
Systematic Variation of Low-Temperature Properties with U/W | p. 628 |
Pressure Study of Mott Transition | p. 630 |
Nature of Superconductivity | p. 631 |
NMR | p. 631 |
Specific Heat and Other Experiments | p. 636 |
Pseudogap Behavior | p. 638 |
Perspectives | p. 639 |
References | p. 640 |
Triplet Scenario of Superconductivity vs. Singlet One in (TMTSF)2X Materials | p. 643 |
Introduction | p. 643 |
Our Goals | p. 645 |
Paramagnetic Limit in Q1D Case: <$>H_{\rm p}^{{\rm Q}1{\rm D}}<$> | p. 647 |
Theoretical Calculations of <$>H_{\rm p}^{{\rm Q}1{\rm D}}<$> | p. 647 |
Experimental Exceeding of <$>H_{\rm p}^{{\rm Q}1{\rm D}}<$> | p. 650 |
Paramagnetic Limits in the Presence of the Orbital Effects: <$>H_{\rm p}^{{\rm Q}1{\rm D}}<$> (¿) and <$>H_{\rm p}^b<$> | p. 651 |
Theoretical Calculations of <$>H_{\rm p}^{{\rm Q}1{\rm D}}<$> (¿) and <$>H_{\rm p}^b<$> | p. 651 |
Experimental Exceeding of <$>H_{\rm p}^{{\rm Q}1{\rm D}}<$> (¿) and <$>H_{\rm p}^b<$> | p. 651 |
Paramagnetic Limitations for <$>{\bf H} \parallel {\bf a}<$> | p. 653 |
Physical Properties of d(k) = [da(k), 0,0] Triplet Superconducting Phase | p. 653 |
Reentrant Superconductivity Phenomenon | p. 656 |
Singlet Scenario of Unconventional Superconductivity | p. 658 |
References | p. 658 |
Triplet Superconductivity in Quasi-One-Dimensional Conductors | p. 661 |
Introduction | p. 661 |
Hamiltonian and Order Parameter Symmetries | p. 663 |
Spectroscopic and Thermodynamic Quantities | p. 666 |
Josephson Effect | p. 670 |
Density Induced Quantum Phase Transitions | p. 675 |
Coexistence of Triplet Superconductivity and Spin-Density Wave | p. 678 |
Summary | p. 683 |
References | p. 684 |
Theory of the Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov State and Application to Quasi-Low-dimensional Organic Superconductors | p. 687 |
The FFLO State | p. 688 |
Basis of the FFLO State | p. 688 |
Spatial Structure of the Order Parameter | p. 688 |
Exotic Superconductors and the FFLO State | p. 690 |
Lower Critical Field | p. 690 |
Nesting Effect for the FFLO State | p. 691 |
Vortex States and the FFLO State | p. 693 |
Coexistence of the FFLO State and Vortex States in 3D Systems | p. 694 |
Tilted Magnetic Field in 2D Systems | p. 694 |
Orbital Pair-Breaking Effect in Q2D Systems | p. 697 |
Candidate Organic Superconductors | p. 698 |
¿-(BEDT-TTF)2X | p. 698 |
¿-(BETS)2X | p. 699 |
Other Exotic Superconductors | p. 700 |
Conclusion and Future Prospects | p. 701 |
References | p. 702 |
Electron Correlations in Organic Conductors | |
SO(4) Symmetry in Bechgaard Salts | p. 707 |
Competing Orders in Strongly Correlated Electron Systems: Emergence of Higher Symmetries | p. 707 |
SO(4) Symmetry in Quasi-One-Dimensional Systems | p. 709 |
Order Parameters and Generators at Half filling | p. 709 |
Symmetries of a Luttinger Liquid | p. 710 |
Competition of Spin-Density Wave Order and Triplet Superconductivity in Bechgaard Salts | p. 712 |
Collective Modes | p. 715 |
References | p. 717 |
From Luttinger to Fermi Liquidsin Organic Conductors | p. 719 |
Introduction | p. 719 |
General Ideas | p. 720 |
Mott Insulators and One-Dimensional Transport | p. 725 |
Theory of Transport | p. 725 |
Tranport in the Organics | p. 730 |
Coupled Chains | p. 735 |
Conclusions and Perspectives | p. 739 |
References | p. 741 |
Index | p. 745 |
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