Frontiers in Magnetism of Reduced Dimension Systems: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Frontiers in Magnetism of Reduced Dimension Systems Crimea, Ukraine May 25—June 3, 1997

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Perpendicular Electron Transport Through Magnetic Multilayers....Pages 3-26
Front Matter....Pages 27-27
Routes to Chaos in Ferromagnetic Resonance and the Return Trip: Controlling and Synchronizing Chaos....Pages 29-59
Front Matter....Pages 61-61
The Phenomenological Theory of Relaxation Processes in Magnets....Pages 63-94
On a Theory of Phase Transitions....Pages 95-118
Front Matter....Pages 119-119
Low Energy Spin-Wave Excitation in Highly Conductive Thin Films and Surfaces....Pages 121-151
Anomalous Low-Field Magnetization in La 2/3 Ca 1/3 MnO 3 Near Critical Point....Pages 153-158
Front Matter....Pages 159-159
Effective Fields in Magnetic Thin Films: Application to the Co/Cu and Fe/Cr Systems....Pages 161-210
Ferromagnetic Resonance in Films with Uniaxial Oblique Anisotropy....Pages 211-216
Spin — Wave Spectrum in Randomly Modulated Superlattices....Pages 217-222
Front Matter....Pages 223-223
Structural and Magnetic Investigations of Ferromagnets by NMR. Application to Magnetic Metallic Multilayers....Pages 225-270
The NMR Study of Fluctuations in Orientation of the Electron Magnetization....Pages 271-275
Front Matter....Pages 277-277
Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling in Magnetic Nanostructures....Pages 279-309
Kinetical Properties of Solitons in One-Dimentional Model Magnetic Systems....Pages 311-316
Magnetic Excitations in Random Magnetic Chains in the Large-S Limit....Pages 317-321
Contribution of Magnetic Domain Walls to Resonant Quasi-Particle Interactions in One-Dimensional Antiferromagnets....Pages 323-328
Front Matter....Pages 329-329
Magnetic Materials for Information Storage Devices....Pages 331-368
The Microscopic Origin of Coercivity in In-Plane Magnetised Ultrathin Epitaxial Fe/Ag(001) Films....Pages 369-374
Magnetization Processes in Mesoscopic Systems: Nucleation, Magnetization Reversal and Hysteresis....Pages 375-380
Interlayer Coupling Across an Alloy Spacer: Co/Cu 75 Au 25 Multilayers....Pages 381-388
Magnetostatic Contribution to Perpendicular Magnetic Anisotropy Constant of Inhomogeneous Films....Pages 389-394
Front Matter....Pages 395-395
Optical and Magnetooptical Properties of Multilayer and Granular Films....Pages 397-432
Optical and Magneto-Optical Spectroscopy of Co/Cu Multilayers....Pages 433-438
Front Matter....Pages 439-439
The Magnetic Resonance Force Microscope....Pages 441-462
Anomalous Magnetic Susceptibility of Multilayer Epitaxial Garnet Ferrite Films....Pages 463-468
Front Matter....Pages 469-469
The Giant Magnetoresistance Effect....Pages 471-499
Coupling and Magnetoresistance in Co/Cr/Ag/Co Structures....Pages 501-506
Magnetotransport, Magnetization and Magnetic Resonance in Superlattices with Non-Collinear Magnetic Ordering....Pages 507-512
Noncollinear Structure in Surface Gadolinium Layer of Multilayer Gd/Fe Films Induced by Magnetic Field....Pages 513-518
Investigation of Structural, Magnetic and Transport Properties of Granular Co x Cu 1-X Films....Pages 519-524
Front Matter....Pages 525-525
Bulk and Interface Magnetostrictions in Rare-Earth Superlattices....Pages 527-552
Front Matter....Pages 553-553
Nonlinear Parametric Excitation of Spin Waves....Pages 555-578
Volume MSW in the Inhomogeneous Multilayered Anisotropic Ferrite Films....Pages 579-584
Interaction of Exchange Spin Waves with Transversal and Longitudinal Hypersound in Ferrite Films with Magnetic Inhomogeneity....Pages 585-590
Influence of Interfaces on Giant Magnetoresistance in Magnetic Sandwiches....Pages 591-596
Back Matter....Pages 597-598