Book Description:
The articles in this exceptional book contain regular papers, extended papers and reviews, and thus vary in length and are useful for all kinds of audience. They describe, as the book’s name suggests, HTSC models and methodologies. Physical models (like extended BCS model, bipolaron model, spin bag model, RVB (resonating valence bond) model, preformed Cooper pairs and antiferromagnetic spin fluctuation (AFSF) based models, stripe phase, paired cluster (spin glass (SG) frustration based) model, Kamimura-Suwa (Hund’s coupling mechanism based) model, electron- plasmon interaction, electron- phonon interaction, etc.), theoretical methods (methodologies) (like generalized BCS-Migdal-Eliashberg theory, Hubbard model, t- J model, t- t'- U model, Hubbard-Holstein model, Fermi-, non Fermi- and marginal Fermi- liquid concepts, generalized Hartree-Fock formalism, etc.) and, experimental status and methodologies are all described there. For comparison with cuprates, fullerenes, ruthenates, organic-, non Cu-containing oxide-and conventional (elemental, A15)- superconductors, molecular crystals, nickelates, manganites, borides etc. are also discussed.

Table of Contents:
Preface; Chapter 1: Introductory Chapter (J. K. Srivastava, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India and S. M. Rao, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan); Chapter 2: Physics of Spin Glass Freezing and Paired Cluster Model of High-Tc Superconductivity (J. K. Srivastava); Chapter 3: Nonadiabatic Superconductivity in Fullerenes, Cuprates and MgB2 (E. Cappelluti, University “La Sapienza”, Italy; L. Pietronero, Instituto d’Acustica, Italy; C. Grimaldi and S. Strässler, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland); Chapter 4: Electronic Theory for Superconductivity in Cuprates: Doping Dependence (I. Eremin, Kazan State University, Russia; D. Manske and K. H. Bennemann, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany); Chapter 5: Elastic Stiffness, Debye Temperatures and Tc in Cuprates (H. Ledbetter, Los Alamos National Laboratory and S. Kim, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Colorado); Chapter 6: Multizone Superconductivity (H. Nagao, Kanazawa University, Japan; S. P. Kruchinin, Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, Ukraine; and K. Yamaguchi, Osaka University, Japan); Chapter 7: The t-t-U Model and the Cuprate Materials (A. Avella and F. Mancini, Università degli Studi di Salerno, Italy); Chapter 8: Experimental Problems with the Current Models used to Account for the Spin and Charge Dynamics in High Temperature Superconducting Cuprates (G. V. M. Williams, Industrial Research Limited, New Zealand); Chapter 9: Weak Coupling Theory of the Two-Dimensional Hubbard Model (G. Vignale, University of Missouri); Chapter 10: Charge Density Fluctuations and Many- Body Coulomb Correlations in the Mechanism of High Temperature Superconductivity in Cuprate Metal Oxides with Anisotropic Band Spectrum (E. A. Pashitskii and V. I. Pentegov, Institute of Physics, NAS of Ukraine, Ukraine); Chapter 11: Spin Polaris and High-Tc Superconductivity (A. L. Chernyshev and R. F. Wood, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee); Subject Index.