This book deals with band-ferromagnetism, a topic of importance for magnetic recording media. It is the most comprehensive presentation of the relevant theories and experiments. It will appeal to researchers, electrical engineers and advanced students.

Presents a comprehensive tutorial treatment of band-ferromagnetism, including theory and experiment Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Klappentext
Written by leading experts in the field of band-ferromagnetism, this book is intended to give a status report on our understanding of this complicated and fascinating problem of solid state physics. Modern developments are presented and explained in a tutorial style emphasizing the decisive ideas and the hot topics of current and future research on band-ferromagnetism. The authors include experimentalists and theoreticians working on different aspects of magnetism and employing a variety of techniques. In particular, they treat the following five central themes: Ground-State Properties, Finite-Temperature Electronic Structure, Models of Band-Ferromagnetism, Low-Dimensional Systems, Understanding Spectroscopies. The book will be of benefit to students and researchers alike.

Inhalt
Ground-State Properties.- On the Way to a Gutzwiller Density Functional Theory.- Anisotropy in Magnetism.- Anisotropic Magnetic Ground-State Moments Probed by Soft X-Ray Spectroscopy.- First Principles Determination of Magnetic Anisotropy and Magnetostriction in Transition Metal Alloys.- Finite-Temperature Electronic Structure.- Magnetism of Correlated Systems: Beyond LDA.- Probing the Electronic States of Band Ferromagnets with Photoemission.- Temperature Dependence of Spin- and Angle-Resolved Photoemission of Ni.- Spin Fluctuations in Itinerant Electron Systems.- Itinerant Electron Magnets: Curie Temperature and Susceptibility in Density-Functional Theory.- Band Magnetism near a Quantum Critical Point.- Non-equilibrium Physics of Magnetic Solids: Time Dependent Changes of Magnetism.- Models of Band-Ferromagnetism.- Metallic Ferromagnetism An Electronic Correlation Phenomenon.- Ferromagnetism in the Hubbard Model.- Orbital Order Versus Orbital Liquid in Doped Manganites.- Low-Dimensional Systems.- First Principles Theory of Magnetism for Materials with Reduced Dimensionality.- Surface Electronic Structure of Band Ferromagnets.- Phase Transitions in Coupled Two-Dimensional Ferromagnetic Layers.- Theory of Spin Excitations and the Microwave Response of Cylindrical Ferromagnetic Nanowires.- Transmission of Electron Beams Through Thin Magnetic Films.- Understanding Spectroscopies.- New Developments in UPS and XPS from Ferromagnetic Materials.- Theory of Electron Spectroscopies.- Magnetic Dichroism in Electron Spectroscopy.- Neutrons as a Probe of the Magnetic Moment Stability in Itinerant Electron Ferromagnets.