Magnetic Properties of Low-Dimensional Systems II, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1990 New Developments. Proceedings of the Second Workshop, San Luis Potosí, Mexico, May 23 – 26, 1989 Springer Proceedings in Physics Series, Vol. 50

Magnetism in surfaces, heterostructures, small particles, and layered compounds has become an important subject in pure and applied science and a major component of high-technology industrial applications, for example, for magnetic recording and information storage and retrieval. This book presents relevant theoretical techniques and summarizes the optical, electronic, and nuclear experimental techniques used in studying the magnetic properties of such systems. Methods of sample preparation and characterization are also discussed. The book provides an up-to-date account of recent developments in this active interdisciplinary field.

1 Surface and Thin-Film Microstructure: Micromagnetics.- I. Surface Magnetic Microstructure.- II. Theoretical Predictions for Magnetic Hysteresis.- 2 Atomic-Scale Structure of Magnetic Surfaces and Overlayers.- III. Surface Magneto-Optical Studies of Ultrathin Ferromagnetic Films.- IV. Dead Layers in Thin-Film Magnetism: p(l × l)Ni on Ag(100) and Ag(111).- V. Study of Short-Range Magnetic Order Transitions by Spin-Polarized Photoelectron Diffraction.- VI. Spin-Polarized Photoemission on Ferromagnetic Epitaxial Thin Films.- VII. Spin-Dependent Inelastic Electron Scattering from Ferromagnetic Surfaces.- VIII. Absolute Determination of the Magnetic Anisotropy of Ultrathin Gd and Ni Films on W(110).- IX. Surface Magnetism of Novel Expitaxial Systems Determined by Electron Capture Spectroscopy and by Spin-Polarized Electron Emission Spectroscopy.- X. Incommensurable Surface Spin Structure in MnO-Type Antiferromagnets.- XI. Magnetic Properties of Anisotropic Thin Films.- XII. Magnetic Metallic Overlayers on Paramagnetic Substrates.- 3 Magnetic Superlattices.- XIII. Exchange Anisotropy in Ni81Fe19/Fe50Mn50 Multilayered Structures: Evidence for Finite-Size Scaling in Ultra-Thin Antiferromagnetic Layers.- XIV. Lattice Mismatched Magnetic Superlattices.- XV. Anisotropic Magnetic Response of Rare Earths in Superlattices.- XVI. Studies of the Magnetic Properties of Superlattices in the Fe(110)/Ag(lll) System.- 4 Statistical Mechanics of Low-Dimensional Magnetism.- XVII. Static and Dynamic Critical Phenomena at Surfaces.- XVIII. Surface-Induced Disorder and Surface Melting.- XIX. Theory of Spin Waves in Magnetic Multilayers.- XX. Spin Fluctuation Theory of Surfaces, Sandwiches and Superlattices.- XXI. Surface Magnetic Properties of a Transverse Ising Model with a Dilute Surface.- 5Clusters and One-Dimensional Magnetic Systems.- XXII. Magnetic Interactions in One-Dimensional Systems.- XXIII. Critical Behavior of Quantum Heisenberg Chains.- XXIV. Long-Range Order in One-Dimensional Quasiperiodic Magnetic Chains.- XXV. Magnetic Properties of Small Transition-Metal Clusters.- 6 Order — Disorder.- XXVI. Structural Disorder at Low Densities.- 7 Magnetism and Superconductivity.- XXVII. Antiferromagnetic Order in the CuO2 Planes of High-Tc Superconductors.- Index of Contributors.