New Trends in Magnetism, Magnetic Materials, and Their Applications

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Magnetic, Optical and Charge-Transfer Spectra of Antiferromagnetic Solid α -O 2 and “Paramagnetic” Solid β -O 2 : A Small-Cluster, Many-Electron Calculation....Pages 1-8
Magnetic Properties of Small Transition Metal Clusters in a Molecular Beam....Pages 9-19
Magnetic Properties of Transition Metal and Rare-earth Metal Clusters....Pages 21-28
Theoretical Study of Electron Correlations in Small Clusters....Pages 29-36
Thermal Magnetic Properties of Clusters....Pages 37-46
Magnetic Properties of Cubo-Octahedral Ising Clusters....Pages 47-55
The One-Dimensional Hubbard Model with Attractive U as a Soluble Model for Exciton Bands and Electron-Hole Droplets....Pages 57-67
Critical Parameters in the Compressible Easy-Plane Heisenberg Chain....Pages 69-74
Morphology and Dynamics of Domain-Wall Motion in Disordered Two-Dimensional Magnets....Pages 75-84
Interplay Between Conventional Electron-Phonon Superconductivity and Density Waves in Two Dimensional Systems....Pages 85-93
Size and Shape Dependence for Triangular and Honeycomb Finite Lattices with Mixed Exchange Interactions....Pages 95-101
Order Parameters and Percolation for Finite Square Ising Lattices with Mixed Exchange Interactions....Pages 103-110
Magnetization Patterns of Exchange Coupled Metallic Multilayers....Pages 111-117
Critical Behavior of Magnetic Multilayers....Pages 119-130
Segregation Effects on the Magnetic Properties of Bimetallic Multilayers....Pages 131-139
The Growth of Cobalt/Copper Epitaxial Layers and its Relationship to the Oscillatory Magnetic Coupling....Pages 141-149
Xe + Irradiation Increases Magnetoresistance in Sputtered Fe/Cr Superlattices....Pages 151-156
Photo- and Thermal-Induced Antiferromagnetic Interlayer Coupling in Fe/(Fe-Si) Superlattices....Pages 157-165
Mean Field Study of Size Scaling in Ising Thin Films....Pages 167-174
Spin-Polarized Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy on Fe and Ni....Pages 175-182
Magnetism at the Surface and in Nanoscale Magnetic Structures: Experiments with Spin Polarized Cascade Electrons....Pages 183-194
Surface and Interface Magnetism of Ultra-Thin Body-Centered-Tetragonal Fe(100)(1×1)/Pd(100) Films....Pages 195-200
Quantum Fluctuations, Proximity Effect, and Spin Excitations at the Antiferromagnetic-Ferromagnetic Interface....Pages 201-209
A Self-consistent Model for the P b Centre at the (111)-Si/SiO 2 Interface....Pages 211-220
New Trends in Ferrimagnetism....Pages 221-240
Ferromagnetic Properties of Dilute Metal Alloys....Pages 241-249
Phase Diagrams from First-Principles Calculations: the One Magnetic Component Ni-Pt Alloy....Pages 251-257
Some Aspects of the Preparation of Amorphous Materials using Non-equilibrium Techniques....Pages 259-276
The Time Treatment Effect on the Magnetic Properties of Metglas® Amorphous Ribbons....Pages 277-281
Intergranular Minor Magnetic Phases in As-cast Nd 2 (Fe 1−x Al x ) 14 B Based and Related Alloys....Pages 283-290
Crystal Growth, Thermodynamic and Magnetic Study of Cd 1−x Mn x In 2 S 4 Single Crystal....Pages 291-297
Magnetic Order in Heusler Alloys....Pages 299-305
Less-conventional Magnetic Domain Investigations....Pages 307-321
High Pulsed Magnetic Field Measurements at the University of La Habana....Pages 323-335
The Antiferromagnetic State in the Heavy Fermion Superconductor URu 2 Si 2 ....Pages 337-345
Synthesis and Magnetic Properties of Iron Pillared Montmorillonites....Pages 347-357
Crystal Growth and Magnetic Properties of the Cu 2 MnGeS 4 Semiconductor....Pages 359-363
Spin-like Behavior in MnIn 2−2x Cr 2x S 4 Single Crystals....Pages 365-371
Slave Boson Approach to Local Moment Formation in the Hubbard Model....Pages 373-386
Localized and Itinerant f-Electrons....Pages 387-391
The Multichannel Kondo Problem: A Brief Review....Pages 393-403
A Coherent-State Representation of the Ground State of Quantum Antiferromagnets....Pages 405-412
Relativistic Spin-polarized Multiple Scattering....Pages 413-421
Quantum Interference in Luttinger Liquids....Pages 423-437
Tight Binding Theory of Overlap Interactions: Applications to Magnetic Materials....Pages 439-449
Extensive versus Nonextensive Physics....Pages 451-463
Concluding Remarks....Pages 465-468
Back Matter....Pages 469-472