Magnetism: Fundamentals, Materials and Applications

This book begins with a phenomenological treatment of magnetism, introducing magnetic effects at the atomic, mesoscopic and macroscopic levels. This is followed by a section on atomic aspects of magnetism, and finally a presentation of magneto-caloric, magneto-elastic, magneto-optical and magneto-transport coupling effects.

Foreword - Preface - Acknowledgements - Magnetism, from the dawn of civilization to today - Magnetostatics - Phenomenology of magnetism at the macroscopic scale ; Phenomenology of magnetism at the microscopic scale - Ferromagnetism of an ideal  system - Irreversibility of magnetization processes, and hysteresis in real ferromagnetic materials: the role of defects - Magnetism in the localixed electron model - Magnetism in the itinerant electron model - Exchange interactions - Thermodynamic aspects of magnetism - Magnetocaloric coupling and related effects - Magnetoelastic effects - Magneto-optical effects - Magnetic resistivity, magnetoresistance, and the Hall effect - Appendices - General references - Index by materials - Index by subject