Basic Physics of Functionalized Graphite

1. Front Matter

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2. Theory of Magnetism in Graphitic Materials

   • Oleg V. Yazyev

   Pages 1-24

3. Soft X-ray Dichroism Studies of Graphite

   • Hendrik Ohldag

   Pages 25-44

4. Evidence for Magnetic Order in Graphite from Magnetization and Transport Measurements

   • Daniel Spemann, Pablo D. Esquinazi

   Pages 45-76

5. Phase Transitions Induced by a Magnetic Field in Graphite

   • Benoît Fauqué, Kamran Behnia

   Pages 77-96

6. Superconductivity in Layered Systems of Dirac Electrons

   • Eduardo C. Marino, Lizardo H. C. M. Nunes

   Pages 97-122

7. Flat Bands as a Route to High-Temperature Superconductivity in Graphite

   • Tero T. Heikkilä, Grigory E. Volovik

   Pages 123-143

8. Experimental Evidence for the Existence of Interfaces in Graphite and Their Relation to the Observed Metallic and Superconducting Behavior

   • Pablo D. Esquinazi, Yury V. Lysogorskiy

   Pages 145-179

9. Back Matter

   Pages 181-185

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This book summarizes the basic physics of graphite and newly discovered phenomena in this material. The book contains the knowledge needed to understand novel properties of functionalized graphite demonstrating the occurrence of remarkable phenomena in disordered graphite and graphite-based heterostructures. It also discusses applications of thin graphitic samples in future electronics. Graphite consists of a stack of nearly decoupled two-dimensional graphene planes. Because of the low dimensionality and the presence of Dirac fermions, much of graphite physics resembles that of graphene. On the other hand, the multi-layered nature of the graphite structure together with structural and/or chemical disorder are responsible for phenomena that are not observed yet in graphene, such as ferromagnetic order and superconductivity. Each chapter was written by one or more experts in the field whose contributions were relevant in the (re)discovery of (un)known phenomena in graphite. The book is intended as reference for beginners and experts in the field, introducing them to many aspects of the new physics of graphite, with a fresh overview of recently found phenomena and the theoretical frames to understand them.

• Applications of Functionalized Graphite
• Ferromagnetism Order in Graphite
• Graphite Interfaces
• Magnetic Order in Graphite
• Magnetic Phase Transitions
• Multilayer Graphene
• Physics of Graphite
• Properties of Graphite
• Superconductivity in Graphite
• Superconductivity in Layered Systems
• Superconductivity on Graphite Interfaces
• Topologically Protected Flat Bands

• Institute for Experimental Physics II, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

  Pablo D. Esquinazi

Pablo David Esquinazi started his physics studies at the University of Tucumán (Argentine) in 1974 before deciding in 1976 to continue at the Balseiro Institute in Bariloche (Argentine), where he finished his Ph.D. in 1983 working on amorphous superconductors under the supervision of Prof. F. de la Cruz. After research stays in Heidelberg and Bariloche he finished his habilitation at Bayreuth University (Germany) in 1991 working in very low temperature physics issues like two-level systems in solids (Prof. F. Pobell division) and the physics of vortices in high-temperature superconductors. For his contribution to understand the thermally activated behaviour of the flux line lattice in high-temperature superconductors and for the measurements at ultralow temperatures of the acoustic properties of amorphous and crystalline solids he received the Rudolf-Kaiser-Award in 1993. Since 1980 PE published more than 280 papers in peer review journals, having a h-index of 45 and an i10-index of165. He is editor of the Book: “Tunneling systems in amorphous and crystalline solids”, published by Springer. His main research activities in recent years were related to defect-induced magnetism in solids, including graphite and oxides, and to the search for high-temperature superconductivity in graphite.  

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