Mechanisms of High Temperature Superconductivity

I Plenary Lecture.- The Development of the High-Temperature Superconductivity Field.- II Theoretical Approach.- Spin-Polaron Pairing Mechanism in the High Tc Copper Oxides.- The Importance of Correlation, Multiplet Structure, Hybridization and Symmetry in the Electronic Structure of High Tc Cu Compounds.- Finite Systems Studies and the Mechanism of High Tc.- What Can We Learn from Small-Cluster Studies on CuO2 and Related Models?.- Recent Numerical Studies on Models for High-Tc Superconductors.- Fermi Liquid and Non Fermi Liquid Phases of the Extended Hubbard Model.- Motion of Holes in Magnetic Insulators.- Fractional Quantization in High-Temperature Superconductivity.- Recent Studies of the Cu d-d Excitation Model.- Electronic Structure, Fermi Liquid and Excitonic Superconductivity in the High Tc Cu-Oxides.- Local-Spin-Density-Functional Approach to High-Tc Copper Oxides.- III Experimental Approach.- III.1 Magnetic.- Quasielastic and Inelastic Spin Fluctuations in Superconducting La2-xSrxCuO4.- Two Dimensional Quantum Spin Fluid - Progenitor of High Temperature Superconductivity.- Nuclear Resonance Studies of YBa2Cu3O7-?.- NMR in High Tc Oxide Superconductors.- Charge Differentiation of Inequivalent Cu Sites of YBa2Cu3Oy (6.0?y?6.91) Investigated by NQR and NMR.- Mössbauer Studies of High-Tc Oxides.- III.2 Optical.- Photoemission Studies of High-Tc Cu Oxides: Character of Doped Oxygen Holes and Pairing Mechanisms.- Experimental Approach to the Mechanism of High-Tc Superconductivity.- Extensive Study of the Optical Spectra for High Tc Cuprates and Related Oxides.- Raman Scattering Spectroscopy in High Temperature Superconductors.- III.3 Tunneling.- Tunneling and the Energy Gap in the High-Temperature Superconductors.- Energy Gap Measurement Made on CryogenicallyCleaved Y-Ba-Cu-O and Bi-Sr-Ca-Cu-O Surfaces.- III.4 Transport.- Transport and Magnetic Properties of (La1-xSr)2CuO4.- Anisotropic Transport in Y-Ba-Cu-O and Bi-Sr-Ca-Cu-O.- Transport Studies on High Tc Oxides.- III.5 Thermal.- Recent Experimental Studies on High-Tc Oxides at IMS.- III.6 Structural.- Substitution Effects in High-Tc Superconductive Oxides.- Strong Dependence of Tc on Hole Concentration in CuO2 Sheets.- Electron Microscopic Study on Ti-Ba-Cu-O Superconductor Oxides.- Orthorhombic-II Superstructure and Significance of Oxygen Ordering for Superconductivity in YBa2Cu3O7-?.- IV Superconductivity of Ba-K-Bi-O Compounds.- A Comparison Between Bi-O and Cu-O Based Superconductors.- V Summary of Discussion Session.- Notes on Hakone Conference.- Index of Contributors.- Group Photograph and List of Participants.