Physics and Chemistry of Transition Metal Oxides: Proceedings of the 20th Taniguchi Symposium, Kashikojima, Japan, May 25–29, 1998 (Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences, 125)

**Physics and Chemistry of Transition-Metal Oxides** includes both theoretical and experimental approaches to the variety of phenomena found in the transition-metal oxides, including high-temperature superconductivity, colossal magnetoresistance, and metal-insulator transition. These are the central issues in materials science and condensed matter physics/chemistry, and readers can obtain up-to-date information on what is happening in this field of research. Front Matter....Pages I-XVIII Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Introduction....Pages 3-5 Front Matter....Pages 7-7 Localized to Itinerant Electronic Transitions in Perovskite-Related Structures....Pages 9-18 Crystal Distortions in Magnetic Compounds....Pages 19-33 Present Status of the First-Principles Electronic Structure Calculations for the Strongly Correlated Transition-Metal Oxides....Pages 34-44 Aspects of Coupled Spin-Orbital Degrees of Freedom in d - and f -Electron Systems....Pages 45-52 Front Matter....Pages 53-53 Anisotropic Charge Dynamics in Layered Manganite Crystals....Pages 55-68 Roles of Orbitals in Transition Metal Oxides....Pages 69-83 Theory of Anomalous X-ray Scattering in a Variety of Orbital Ordered Manganites....Pages 84-94 Nonlinear Optical Responses of Strongly Correlated Electronic Systems....Pages 95-107 Front Matter....Pages 109-109 Fermi-Liquid Versus Pseudogap Behaviors in Filling-Control Transition-Metal Oxides....Pages 111-119 Metal-Insulator and Superconductor-Insulator Transitions in Correlated Electron Systems....Pages 120-135 High Temperature Superconductors as a Member of Transition Metal Oxides....Pages 136-143 Electronic Structure of Underdoped Superconductors and Related Mott Insulators....Pages 144-151 Destruction of the Fermi Surface in Underdoped Cuprates....Pages 152-162 Effects of Stripe Order on Charge Dynamics in La-Cuprates....Pages 163-172 Spin Excitations in Pure and Zn-Substituted YBa 2 Cu 3 O 6+x ....Pages 173-181 Static and Dynamical Incommensurate Spin Correlations in High-T c Cuprates of La 2−x Sr x CuO 4+y ....Pages 182-191 Experimental Studies on Singlet Formation in High- T c Oxides and Quantum Spin Systems....Pages 192-201 Thermal Conductivity as a Probe of Quasi-Particles in the Cuprates....Pages 202-211 A New-Type Superconducting State Locally Induced Around a Vortex in the Two-Dimensional t-J Model....Pages 212-220 Front Matter....Pages 109-109 Instability of a 2-Dimensional Landau-Fermi Liquid Due to Umklapp Scattering....Pages 221-230 Antiferromagnetism, Singlet and Disorder....Pages 231-240 The Spin Gap and Superconducting States of Underdoped Cuprates....Pages 241-249 Gauge Field, Confinement, and Superconductivity in Underdoped High-T c Cuprates....Pages 250-259 A Progress Report on the SO(5) Theory of High T c Superconductivity....Pages 260-266 Nested Spin-Fluctuation Scenario for Anomalous Metallic Phase of High-T c Cuprates....Pages 267-276 Front Matter....Pages 277-277 Novel Transition Metal Oxides Prepared at High Pressure and Their Electronic Properties....Pages 279-288 Spin and Charge Dynamics in the Hole-Doped Two-Leg Ladder Compound Sr 14−x Ca x Cu 24 O 41 ....Pages 289-298 NMR Probe of Magnetic Order and Spin Correlation in Hole-Doped Ladder Cuprates....Pages 299-312 Metal-Insulator and Magnetic Transitions in Layered Ruthenates....Pages 313-322 Spin Triplet Superconductivity in Sr 2 RuO 4 — A New Territory for Experimentalists and Theorists....Pages 323-331 Concluding Remarks....Pages 332-333 Back Matter....Pages 335-336 Part I: Introduction Part II: Overviews Part III: Manganites Part IV: High Tc Cuprates Part V: New Materials: Ladders, Ruthenates and Others.