This book is intended as a basic text for a two-term graduate course for physicists, engineers and chemists with a background in quantum and statistical mechanics. What sets it apart from other publications on the subject is its extensive use of Green's function techniques and its detailed discussion of the application of the mean-field approximation and dipole-dipole interactions in one, two and three dimensions. A chapter each has been devoted to low-dimensional systems, surface magnetism and layered systems. A total of 60 exercises have also been included.
Author(s): Norberto Majlis
Series: Condensed Matter Physics
Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co (
Year: 2000
Language: English
Pages: 436
Front Cover......Page 1
Copyright......Page 5
Preface......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
Ch. 1 Paramagnetism......Page 14
Ch. 2 Interacting Spins......Page 48
Ch. 3 Mean Field Approximation......Page 70
Ch. 4 Spin Waves......Page 116
Ch. 5 Green’s Functions Methods......Page 146
Ch. 6 Dipole-Dipole Interactions......Page 202
Ch. 7 Itinerant Magnetism......Page 230
Ch. 8 Indirect Exchange......Page 276
Ch. 9 Low Dimensions......Page 306
Ch. 10 Surface Magnetism......Page 342
Ch. 11 Two-magnon Eigenstates......Page 374
Ch. 12 Other Interactions......Page 394
App. A Group Theory......Page 414
App. B Time Reversal......Page 426
Index......Page 432
Back Cover......Page 436
