New Horizons in Low-Dimensional Electron Systems: A Festschrift in Honour of Professor H. Kamimura(13 Physics and Chemistry of Materials with Low-Dimensional Structures)

In Bird of Passage by Rudolf Peierls, we find a paragraph in which he de­ scribes his Cambridge days in the 1930s: On these [relativistic field theory] problems my main contacts were Dirac, and the younger theoreticians. These included in particular Nevill (now Sir Nevill) Mott, perhaps the friendliest among many kind and friendly people we met then. Professor Kamimura became associated with Sir Rudolf Peierls in the 1950s, when he translated, with his colleagues, Peierls's 1955 textbook, Quantum Theory of Solids, into Japanese. This edition, to which Sir Rudolf himself contributed a preface, benefitted early generations of Japanese solid state physicists. Later in 1974/5, during a sabbatical year spent at the Cavendish Laboratory, Professor Kamimura met and began a long association with Sir Nevill Mott. In particular, they developed ideas for disordered systems. One of the outcomes is a paper coauthored by them on ESR-induced variable­ range hopping in doped semiconductors. A series of works on disordered systems, together with those on two-dimensional systems, have served as building blocks for Physics of Interacting Electrons in Disordered Systems, in the International Series of Monographs on Physics, coauthored by Aoki and published in 1989 by the Oxford University Press. Soon after Professor Kamimura obtained a D. Sc. in 1959 for the work on the ligand field theory under the supervision ofMasao Kotani, his strong con­ nections in the international physical community began when he worked at the Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1961/64.

Table of Contents:
Localization Phenomena and Carrier-Carrier Interaction in Fluorine-Graphite Intercalation Compounds.- Structural Phase Transitions and Kinetic Processes in Graphite Intercalation Compounds.- Electronic Structures of Hydrogen-Potassium-Graphite Ternary Intercalation Compounds.- Electronic Band Structures and Magnetic Properties of Mn-Intercalated Compounds of 2H-Type Transition Metal Dichalcogenides.- Spin-Dependent Light Scattering in Two- Dimensional Magnetically Ordered Systems.- A New Method to Create Artificially Stacked Layered Materials: Van der Waals Epitaxy.- Twenty Years of Semiconductor Superlattice Research.- A Recent Study of Electronic Structures of Semiconductor Superlattices.- Quantum Interference and Magneto-Resistance in Gallium Arsenide Structures.- Electrode Screening of Two Dimensional Disordered Systems.- Multifractal Properties of Eigenstates in Weakly Disordered Two-Dimensional Systems without Magnetic Field.- Some Theoretical Ideas on High Tc Super conductors.- Limitations on the Theories of High Temperature Superconductors.- Observation of Magnetooptical Effects in Several High Tc Superconductors.- Aspects of the Gauge Field Theory of the Normal State Properties of High-Tc Superconductors.- Models for the Electronic Structure of Cuprates.- Exact Dynamics of Highly Correlated Electrons in Two Dimensions.- Two-Band Models for Superconductivity.- An Aspect of Quantum Antiferromagnetism on a Square Lattice.- Two-Dimensional Quantum Magnets — Mean Field and Beyond.- Electronic Structure and Reconstruction of Si(100) Surfaces.- Initial Stage of Oxidation of Silicon: A State-of-the-Art Calculation.- Mesoscopic Phenomena in Semiconductor Quantum Structures.- Mesoscopics and Superconductivity.- Field-Induced Charges in Polyacetylene MIS and MISFETDevices.- Dynamics of Spin-Density Wave in Organic Conductors (TMTSF)2X.- Doping and Disorder in Conducting Polymers.- Electronic Structures of Icosahedral Clusters and Crystals.- Negative Donor Centers in High Magnetic Fields and Quantum Wells.- Point Defects: The Zero-Dimension Three-Dimensional Objects.