Systems displaying competing interactions of some kind are widespread - much more, in fact, as commonly anticipated (magnetic and Ising-type interactions or the dynamics of DNA molecules being only two popular examples).
Written for researchers in the field with different professional backgrounds, this volume classifies phenomena not by system but rather by the type of competing interactions involved. This allows for a straightforward presentation of the underlying principles and the universal laws governing the behaviour of different systems.
Starting with a historical overview, the author proceeds by describing self-competitions of various types of interactions (such as diploar or multipolar interactions), competitions between a short-range and a long-range interaction (as in Ising systems or DNA models) or between a long-range interaction and an anisotropy (as in ultrathin magnetic films or magnetic nanoparticles) and finally competitions between interactions of the same range (as in spin glasses).
Each chapter contains a few problems with solutions which provide suitable material for lecturers of mathematics and physics as well as biology courses. A vast body of references to the original literature make the volume self-contained and ideally suited to master this interdisciplinary field.
Author(s): Victor E. Borisenko, Stefano Ossicini
Edition: 2nd, Revised and Enlarged Edition
Publisher: Wiley-VCH
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 541
What is What in the Nanoworld......Page 4
Contents......Page 8
Preface to the Second Edition......Page 10
Preface to the First Edition......Page 12
Source of Information......Page 14
A From Abbe’s principle to Azbel'–Kaner cyclotron resonance......Page 20
B From B92 protocol to Burstein–Moss shift......Page 46
C From cage compound to cyclotron resonance......Page 72
D From D'Alembert equation to Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction......Page 100
E From (e,2e) reaction to Eyring equation......Page 128
F From Fabry–Pérot resonator to FWHM (full width at half maximum)......Page 152
G From gain-guided lasers to gyromagnetic frequency......Page 178
H From habit plane to hyperelastic scattering......Page 194
I From ideality factor to isotropy (of matter)......Page 218
J From Jahn–Teller effect to Joule's law of electric heating......Page 226
K From Kane model to Kuhn–Thomas–Reiche sum rule......Page 230
L From lab-on-a-chip to Lyman series......Page 244
M From Mach–Zender interferometer to Murrell–Mottram potential......Page 270
N From NAA (neutron activation analysis) to Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem......Page 304
O From octet rule to oxide......Page 318
P From PALM (photoactivable localization microscopy) to pyrrole......Page 326
Q From Q-control to qubit......Page 360
R From Rabi flopping to Rydberg gas......Page 382
S From Saha equation to synergetics......Page 400
T From Talbot’s law to type II superconductors......Page 462
U From ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy (UPS) to Urbach rule......Page 480
V From vacancy to von Neumann machine......Page 484
W From Waidner–Burgess standard to Wyckoff notation......Page 492
X From XMCD (X-ray magnetic circular dichroism) to XRD (X-ray diffraction)......Page 502
Y From Yasukawa potential to Yukawa potential......Page 506
Z From Zeeman effect to Zundel ion......Page 508
A list and a presentation of Scientific Journals which contain the stem Nano in their title......Page 512
Abbreviations for the scientific journals which appear as sources in the text......Page 526
Appendix – main properties of intrinsic (or lightly doped) semiconductors......Page 532
