TY - BOOK AU - ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Quantum Theory of Magnetism: Magnetic Properties of Materials T2 - Springer Series in SOLID-STATE SCIENCES, SN - 9783540690252 AV - QC750-766 U1 - 538 23 PY - 2007/// CY - Berlin, Heidelberg PB - Springer Berlin Heidelberg KW - Physics KW - Quantum theory KW - Magnetism KW - Magnetism, Magnetic Materials KW - Quantum Physics N1 - The Magnetic Susceptibility -- The Magnetic Hamiltonian -- The Static Susceptibility of Noninteracting Systems -- The Static Susceptibility of Interacting Systems: Local Moments -- The Static Susceptibility of Interacting Systems: Metals -- The Dynamic Susceptibility of Weakly Interacting Systems: Local Moments -- The Dynamic Susceptibility of Weakly Interacting Systems: Metals -- The Dynamic Susceptibility of Strongly Interacting Systems -- Thin Film Systems -- Neutron Scattering; ZDB-2-PHA N2 - This book provides a unified description of magnetic phenomena through means of the generalized susceptibility. The book begins by discussing the general properties of the susceptibility, its complex nature, its symmetry, and its relation to magnetic fluctuations.Next, the quantum basis of magnetic phenomena is established. The bulk of the book builds on this theoretical foundation to calculate the magnetic response to spatial and time-varying magnetic fields. This provides a natural way of thinking about long-range order, critical phenomena, resonance, etc. A new chapter is included which deals with the magnetic properties of thin film magnetic structures which have many potential applications UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69025-2 ER -