The present text book gives an comprehensive account of magnetism, spanning the historical development, the physical foundations and the continuing research underlying the field, one of the oldest yet still vibrant field of physics. It covers both the classical and quantum mechanical aspects of magnetism and novel experimental techniques. Perhaps uniquely, it also discusses spin transport and magnetization dynamics phenomena associated with atomically and spin engineered nano-structures against the backdrop of spintronics and magnetic storage and memory applications. Despite the existence of various books on the topic, a fresh text book that reviews the fundamental physical concepts and uses them in a coherent fashion to explain some of the forefront problems and applications today was thought useful by the authors and their colleagues. Magnetism is written for students on the late undergraduate and the graduate levels and should also serve as a state-of-the-art reference for scientists in academia and research laboratories.

Zusammenfassung

This text book gives a comprehensive account of magnetism, one of the oldest yet most vibrant fields of physics. Perhaps uniquely, it discusses spin transport and magnetization dynamics phenomena associated with atomically and spin engineered nano-structures. It does this against the backdrop of spintronics and magnetic storage and memory applications. In addition to summarizing developments in this new field of research the book also discusses magnetism applying synchrotron radiation. In short, the book reviews the fundamental physical concepts of the subject and uses them in a coherent fashion to explain some of the problems and applications at the forefront of magnetism. The book is written for undergraduate and graduate level students, and it should also serve as a state-of-the-art reference for scientists in academia and research laboratories.

Inhalt
Fields and Moments.- Electric Fields, Currents, and Magnetic Fields.- Magnetic Moments and their Interactions with Magnetic Fields.- Time Dependent Fields.- Polarized Electromagnetic Waves.- History and Concepts of Magnetic Interactions.- Exchange, SpinOrbit, and Zeeman Interactions.- Electronic and Magnetic Interactions in Solids.- Polarized Electron and X-Ray Techniques.- Polarized Electrons and Magnetism.- Interactions of Polarized Photons with Matter.- X-rays and Magnetism: Spectroscopy and Microscopy.- Properties of and Phenomena in the Ferromagnetic Metals.- The Spontaneous Magnetization, Anisotropy, Domains.- Magnetism of Metals.- Topics in Contemporary Magnetism.- Surfaces and Interfaces of Ferromagnetic Metals.- Electron and Spin Transport.- Ultrafast Magnetization Dynamics.