Band-Ferromagnetism [electronic resource] : Ground-State and Finite-Temperature Phenomena / edited by Klaus Baberschke, Wolfgang Nolting, Markus Donath.

Ground-State Properties -- On the Way to a Gutzwiller Density Functional Theory -- Anisotropy in Magnetism -- Anisotropic Magnetic Ground-State Moments Probed by Soft X-Ray Spectroscopy -- First Principles Determination of Magnetic Anisotropy and Magnetostriction in Transition Metal Alloys -- Finite-Temperature Electronic Structure -- Magnetism of Correlated Systems: Beyond LDA -- Probing the Electronic States of Band Ferromagnets with Photoemission -- Temperature Dependence of Spin- and Angle-Resolved Photoemission of Ni -- Spin Fluctuations in Itinerant Electron Systems -- Itinerant Electron Magnets: Curie Temperature and Susceptibility in Density-Functional Theory -- Band Magnetism near a Quantum Critical Point -- Non-equilibrium Physics of Magnetic Solids: Time Dependent Changes of Magnetism -- Models of Band-Ferromagnetism -- Metallic Ferromagnetism — An Electronic Correlation Phenomenon -- Ferromagnetism in the Hubbard Model -- Orbital Order Versus Orbital Liquid in Doped Manganites -- Low-Dimensional Systems -- First Principles Theory of Magnetism for Materials with Reduced Dimensionality -- Surface Electronic Structure of Band Ferromagnets -- Phase Transitions in Coupled Two-Dimensional Ferromagnetic Layers -- Theory of Spin Excitations and the Microwave Response of Cylindrical Ferromagnetic Nanowires -- Transmission of Electron Beams Through Thin Magnetic Films -- Understanding Spectroscopies -- New Developments in UPS and XPS from Ferromagnetic Materials -- Theory of Electron Spectroscopies -- Magnetic Dichroism in Electron Spectroscopy -- Neutrons as a Probe of the Magnetic Moment Stability in Itinerant Electron Ferromagnets.

Written by leading experts in the field of band-ferromagnetism, this book is intended to give a status report on our understanding of this complicated and fascinating problem of solid state physics. Modern developments are presented and explained in a tutorial style emphasizing the decisive ideas and the hot topics of current and future research on band-ferromagnetism. The authors include experimentalists and theoreticians working on different aspects of magnetism and employing a variety of techniques. In particular, they treat the following five central themes: Ground-State Properties, Finite-Temperature Electronic Structure, Models of Band-Ferromagnetism, Low-Dimensional Systems, Understanding Spectroscopies. The book will be of benefit to students and researchers alike.