Physics and Chemistry of Transition Metal Oxides: Proceedings of the 20th Taniguchi Symposium, Kashikojima, Japan, May 25–29, 1998

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