Publisher's Synopsis
A product of the efforts of Chinese scientists and a group of foreign experts on the subject, this latest contribution to the CCAST series is devoted to two dimensional strongly correlated electronic systems. It discusses how the present problems can be tackled, and the future possibilities of the field. This series of lectures places emphasis on the development of high Tc superconducting oxide materials, based on the premise that the underlying physics is that of strong electronic correlation. Contributions include an introduction to strongly correlated systems, the basic concepts of the Mott insulator, the subtle fractional quantum Hall system and a review of the current thoughts on resonating valence bonds. Research techniques are also covered such as variational Monte Carlo methods, mean field theories and topological excitations,;The book should be of interest to graduate students and researchers involved in the study of condensed matter theory and field theoretic methods.
