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Ann. Phys. Fr.
Volume 19, Number 4, 1994
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| Page(s) | 353 - 366 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/anphys:01994001904035300 | |
| Published online | 01 June 2004 | |
Mott transition and superconductivity
Laboratoire des Champs Magnétiques Intenses, MPI/CNRS, Grenoble
There exists well established empiric trend - the best superconductors are among the bad conductors, with electrons essentially localized on atomic orbitals. It is just this electronic structure which is a requisite for the metal-insulator transition, predicted by N. Mott. In this lecture I intend to show that the coexistence of these two remarkable phenomena, within the same set of materials, is not accidental.
PACS: 7130 – Metal insulator transitions and other electronic transitions / 7420 – Theory of superconductivity
Key words: localised states / metal insulator transition / superconductivity / Mott transition / electronic structure / localized electrons / metal insulator transition / superconductivity
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