Table of Contents

1: Introduction
2: Isolated magnetic moments
3: Environments
4: Interactions
5: Order and magnetic structures
6: Order and broken symmetry
7: Magnetism in metals
8: Competing interactions and low dimensionality
Appendix A: Units in electromagnetism
Appendix B: Electromagnetism
Appendix C: Quantum and atomic physics
Appendix D: Energy in magnetism and demagnetism
Appendix E: Statistical mechanics
Appendix F: List of symbols
Index

About the Author

Dr Stephen Blundell, University of Oxford, Department of Physics, Clarendon Laboratory, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU, Tel.: 01865/272347, Fax: 01865/272400, Email: s.blundell@physics.ox.ac.uk

Reviews

I can warmly recommend this book to anyone considering giving a course on magnetism and for those students of condensed matter physics, who have no access to such a course ... it is also very useful and enjoyable reading for those who have been working in magnetism for some time and have felt the lack of a systematic review of the subject. ... the reader or student obtains a very thorough and systematic background in which to place the large variety of subject matter. Contemporary Physics