Physics of Magnetism

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Physics of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials ...

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Physics of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials K. H. J. Buschow Van der Waals-Zeeman Instituut Universiteit van Amsterdam Amsterdam ...

eBook ISBN: 0-306-48408- Print ISBN: 0-306- 47421 - 2 ©200 4 Kluwer Academic Publishers New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Mos ...

Contents Chapter 1. Introduction 1 Chapter 2. The Origin of Atomic Moments 3 2.1. Spin and Orbital States of Electrons^3 2.2. T ...

vi CONTENTS Chapter 7. Itinerant-Electron Magnetism ^63 7.1. Introduction 63 7.2. Susceptibility Enhancement^65 7.3. ...

CONTENTS vii Chapter 14. Soft-Magnetic Materials 147 14.1. Introduction 147 14.2. Survey of Materials 148 14.3. The Random-An ...

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1 Introduction The first accounts of magnetism date back to the ancient Greeks who also gave magnetism its name. It derives from ...

2 CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION information technology without having any knowledge of the materials used for data stor­ age in these ...

2 The Origin of Atomic Moments 2.1. SPIN AND ORBITAL STATES OF ELECTRONS In the following, it is assumed that the reader has som ...

4 CHAPTER 2. THE ORIGIN OF ATOMIC MOMENTS The spin quantum number describes the component of the electron spin s along a partic ...

SECTION 2.2. THE VECTOR MODEL OF ATOMS 5 where is the spectroscopic splitting factor (or the g-factor for the free electron). Th ...

6 CHAPTER 2. THE ORIGIN OF ATOMIC MOMENTS shells. The same arguments apply to the total spin angular momentum, defined as The re ...

SECTION 2.2. THE VECTOR MODEL OF ATOMS 7 It can be shown that This factor is called the Landé spectroscopic g-factor For a given ...

8 CHAPTER 2. THE ORIGIN OF ATOMIC MOMENTS As seen in Tables 2.2.1 and 2.2.2, the maximum S value is reached in each case when th ...

SECTION 2.2. THE VECTOR MODEL OF ATOMS 9 level characterized by the angular momentum quantum number J listed in Tables 2.2. and ...

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3 Paramagnetism of Free Ions 3.1. THE BRILLOUIN FUNCTION Once we have applied the vector model and Hund’s rules to find the quan ...