Dynamical Properties of Unconventional Magnetic Systems

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. An Introduction to the Scientific Programme of the School

   • R. A. Cowley

   Pages 1-4

3. The Excitations of One-Dimensional Spin 1/2 Antiferromagnets

   • R. A. Cowley

   Pages 5-27

4. Quantum Dynamics in Mesoscopic Magnetism

   • Daniel Loss

   Pages 29-75

5. Neutron Scattering Studies of Non-Metallic Low-Dimensional Quantum Antiferromagnets

   • C. Broholm, Daniel H. Reich, G. Aeppli, S.-H. Lee, D. C. Dender, P. R. Hammar et al.

   Pages 77-105

6. Quantum Critical Points-Experiments

   • G. Aeppli, T. F. Rosenbaum

   Pages 107-122

7. Soliton Confinement and the Excitation Spectrum of Spin-Peierls Antiferromagnets

   • Ian Affleck

   Pages 123-131

8. Dynamics and Transport Near Quantum-Critical Points

   • Subir Sachdev

   Pages 133-178

9. Spin Spectroscopy and Coherence in Magnetic Quantum Structures

   • D. D. Awschalom, N. Samarth

   Pages 179-201

10. The Magnetic Structures of Rare-Earth Superlattices

    • R. A. Cowley

    Pages 203-213

11. Lightscattering from Spinwaves in Thin Films and Layered Magnetic Structures

    • P. A. Gruenberg

    Pages 215-238

12. Spin Density Waves and Proximity Effects in Thin Epitaxial Cr Films

    • H. Zabel, A. Schreyer, P. Bödeker, P. Sonntag

    Pages 239-265

13. Low Energy Spin Excitations in Chromium Metal

    • Roger Pynn, R. T. Azuah, W. G. Stirling, Jiri Kulda

    Pages 267-280

14. Low Dimensional Quantum Magnetism in the Copper Oxides

    • A. Aharony, O. Entin-Wohlman, A. B. Harris

    Pages 281-305

15. Nucleation Theory of Magnetization Switching in Nanoscale Ferromagnets

    • Per Arne Rikvold, M. A. Novotny, M. Kolesik, Howard L. Richards

    Pages 307-316

16. Magnetic Multiparticle Systems and Symbolic Dynamics

    • A. T. Skjeltorp, S. Clausen, G. Helgesen

    Pages 317-342

17. Ageing in Frustrated Magnets

    • Per Nordblad

    Pages 343-366

18. Back Matter

    Pages 367-369

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Magnetism encompasses a wide range of systems and physical phenomena, and its study has posed and exposed both important fundamental problems and many practical applications.
Recently, several entirely new phenomena have thus been discovered, generated through cooperative behaviour which could not have been predicted from a knowledge of `one-spin' states. At the same time, advances in sample preparation, experimental technique, apparatus and radiation sources, have led to increasing precision in the investigation and exposure of greater subtleties in magnetic thin films, multilayers and other systems.
Examples of unexpected and conceptually new phenomena occur in strongly correlated and fluctuating quantum systems, producing effects such as Haldane and spin-Peierls gaps, solitons, quantum spin glasses and spin liquids. The discovery and elucidation of these `emerging properties' is a central theme in modern condensed matter physics.
The present book comprises a series of chapters by world experts, covering both theoretical and experimental aspects. The approach is pedagogical and tutorial, but fully up to date, covering the latest research. The level is appropriate to graduate researchers who may either be just moving into the field or who are already active in condensed matter physics.

• Metall
• condensed matter
• liquid
• magnetism
• neutron scattering
• spectroscopy

• Institute for Energy Technology, Kjeller, Norway

  Arne T. Skjeltorp

• Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Norway

  Arne T. Skjeltorp

• Department of Physics, University of Oxford, UK

  David Sherrington

• Inst. for Theoretical Physics, Oxford, UK

  David Sherrington

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