Magnetic Phase Transitions

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-VII

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2. Basic Theories and Methods

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Magnetic Phase Transitions

      • R. J. Elliott

      Pages 2-24

   3. Phase Transitions in Itinerant Electron Magnets

      • D. M. Edwards

      Pages 25-39

   4. Higher-Order Critical Points in Magnetic Systems

      • R. M. Hornreich

      Pages 40-55

   5. Introduction to Renormalisation Group Methods

      • R. B. Stinchcombe

      Pages 56-75

   6. Scaling-Field Approach to Critical Phenomena

      • Eberhard K. Riedel, Kathie E. Newman

      Pages 76-80

3. Time-Dependent and Non-Equilibrium Properties

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-81

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   2. Spin Dynamics

      • W. J. L. Buyers

      Pages 82-98

   3. Transport Properties of Magnetic Metals Near Phase Transitions

      • M. Ausloos

      Pages 99-129

   4. Critical Dynamics in Simple Ising-Like Systems

      • Gene F. Mazenko

      Pages 130-153

   5. Kinetics of First-Order Phase Transitions

      • J. D. Gunton

      Pages 154-169

4. Disordered Systems

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 171-171

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   2. Static Thermodynamic Properties of Site-Random Magnetic Systems and the Percolation Problem

      • L. J. de Jongh

      Pages 172-194

   3. Percolation Effects and Disorder

      • A. Coniglio

      Pages 195-222

   4. Spin Glasses: Irreversibility, Metastability and the Free Energy Surface

      • Gary S. Grest, C. M. Soukoulis, K. Levin

      Pages 223-240

   5. Magnetism in Amorphous Metallic Glasses

      • J. J. Rhyne

      Pages 241-268

5. Back Matter

   Pages 269-269

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The present volume contains the courses given at a Summer School on "Magne­ tic Phase Transitions" held at the Ettore Majorana Centre for Scientific Culture, at Erice (Trapani), Italy in July 1983 under the auspices of the Condensed Matter Division of the European Physical Society in their series on Materials Science and Technology. The student participants came from West Germany, Great Britain, Brazil, Greece, Switzerland, Sweden, Italy, USA and The Netherlands. The lecturers came from various European countries, Israel, USA and Canada. The atmosphere at the meeting was excellent and a good spirit of companion­ ship developed during two weeks of working together. The spread of interests among the lecturers and students was divers;jfied but balanced. The main lec­ turing contributions are reported in this volume. They represent up-to-date reviews in a pedagogical style. In addition, informal presentations on cur­ rent research interests were made which have not been included. The school attempted to summarize the current position on the properties of magnetic phase transitions from several points of view. The range and scope of the­ oretical techniques, and of particular aspects of materials or phenomena as observed experimentally were very well put forward by the lecturers. The grouping of manuscripts in chapters does not represent, however, the sched­ ule followed during the school. Contributions on mean-field approximations and renormalization-group methods either for static or dynamic phenomena can be found at various places in the following sections.

• Magnetismus
• Phasenumwandlung
• magnetism
• materials science
• transitions

• Physique des Solides, Institut de Physique B5, Université de Liège, Sart Tilman/Liège 1, Belgium

  Marcel Ausloos

• Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, Great Britain

  Roger J. Elliott

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