A comprehensive study of the microscopic theory of structural phase transitions and the cooperative Jahn-Teller effect, for scientists, engineers, and students interested in any aspect of phase transformation. The volume contains six chapters: the Jahn-Teller effect; interaction of Jahn-Teller cente

This book by Kaplan and Vekhter brings together the molecular world of the chemist with the condensed matter world of the physicist. Prior to the collapse of the Soviet Union, chemists in the West devoted lit- to relationships between molecular electronic structure and tle attention solid-state vibronic phenomena. Treating quantum mechanical problems wherein the adiabatic Born-Oppenheimer approximation fails was done by "brute force. " With bigger and better computers available in the West, molecular orbital calculations were done on observed and conceived static structures with little...