Dynamics of Transition Metals and Alloys

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Summarizes first principle descriptions of the dynamics of atoms in transition metals and alloys for post-graduates, researchers, and scientist involved in physics and material sciences. A number of questions are explored, including: how partially localized d or f- electrons should be represented; how the contribution of core and conduction electrons to the dynamical matrix should be separated in theoretical description; whether there is any relationship between phonon anomalies and the structural phase transition in superconduction; and most importantly, what is an appropriate microscopic theory for the phonon spectra of these materials. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.