(Springer series in solid-state sciences,0171-1873
; 152.)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Electric fields, currents, and magnetic fields -- Magnetic moments and their interactions with magnetic fields -- Time dependent fields -- Polarized electromagnetic waves -- Exchange, spin-orbit, and zeeman interactions -- Electronic and magnetic interactions in solids -- Polarized electrons and magnetism -- Interactions of polarized photons with matter -- X-rays and magnetism : spectroscopy and microscopy -- The spontaneous magnetization, anisotropy, domains -- Magnetism of metals -- Surfaces and interfaces of ferromagnetic metals -- Electron and spin transport -- Ultrafast magnetization dynamics -- Appendices: 1. The international system of units [SI] -- 2. The cross product -- 3. s, p, and d orbitals -- 4. Spherical tensors -- 5. Sum rules for spherical tensor matrix elements -- 6. Polarization dependent dipole operators -- 7. Spin-orbit basis functions for p and d orbitals -- 8. Quadrupole moment and the X-ray absorption intensity -- 9. Lorentzian line shape and integral -- 10. Gaussian line shape and its fourier transform -- 11. Gaussian pulses, half-cycle pulses and transforms.