Introduction to the Theory of Ferromagnetism (The International Series of Monographs on Physics)

The emphasis of this second edition is on introducing the foundations of the different subfields, highlighting the direction and tendency of the most recent research. New to this edition is updated material on the nucleation problem and numerical micromagnetics. This book is suitable for first-year graduate and advanced undergraduate students in physics and engineering as well as for practicing engineers and experimental physicists who work in the field of magnetism and need an excellent reference book. About the Author: Amikam Aharoni is The Richard Kronstein Professor of Theoretical Magnetism Emeritus, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovoth, Israel. Booknews This text for beginning graduate students and advanced undergraduates in physics and engineering is also useful as a reference for practicing engineers and experimental physicists working in the field of magnetism. Emphasis is on introducing different subfields while also highlighting future research directions. Chapter topics include molecular field approximation, the Heisenberg Hamiltonian, anisotropy and time effects, basic micromagnetics, energy minimization, and analytic micromagnetics. Aharoni is affiliated with the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. This third edition contains new material on the nucleation problem, and on numerical micromagnetics. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) PREFACE......Page 4 CONTENTS......Page 8 1 INTRODUCTION......Page 13 2 MOLECULAR FIBLD APPROXIMATION......Page 23 3 THE HEISENBERG HAMILTONIAN......Page 47 4. MAGNETIZATION VS. TEMPERATURE......Page 71 5. ANISOTROPY AND TIME EFFECTS......Page 94 6. ANOTHER ENERGY TERM......Page 120 7. BASIC MICROMAGNETICS......Page 144 8. ENERGY MINIMIZATION......Page 168 9. THE NUCLEATION PROBLEM......Page 194 10. ANALYTIC MICROMAGNETICS......Page 227 11. NUMERICAL MICROMAGNETICS......Page 250 REFERENCES......Page 279 AUTHOR INDEX......Page 316 SUBJECT INDEX......Page 326 Serves as a textbook for first-year graduate and advanced undergraduate students in both physics and engineering. This book explains the theoretical principles on which the work is based for practising engineers and experimental physicists who work in the field of magnetism.