Renormalization Group Theory Impact on Experimental Magnetism /

Spin wave theory of magnetism and BCS theory of superconductivity are typical theories of the time before renormalization group (RG) theory. The two theories consider atomistic interactions only and ignore the energy degrees of freedom of the continuous (infinite) solid. Since the pioneering work of...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kb̲ler, Ulrich. (Author), Hoser, Andreas. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
Series:Springer Series in Materials Science, 127
Subjects:
Online Access:https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02487-0
LEADER 04044nam a22004815i 4500
001 9932
003 DE-He213
005 20130725193622.0
007 cr nn 008mamaa
008 100301s2010 gw | s |||| 0|eng d
020 # # |a 9783642024870  |9 978-3-642-02487-0 
024 7 # |a 10.1007/978-3-642-02487-0  |2 doi 
050 # 4 |a QC750-766 
050 # 4 |a QC764.5-766 
072 # 7 |a PHK  |2 bicssc 
072 # 7 |a SCI038000  |2 bisacsh 
072 # 7 |a TEC021000  |2 bisacsh 
082 0 4 |a 538  |2 23 
100 1 # |a Kb̲ler, Ulrich.  |e author. 
245 1 0 |a Renormalization Group Theory  |b Impact on Experimental Magnetism /  |c by Ulrich Kb̲ler, Andreas Hoser.  |h [electronic resource] : 
264 # 1 |a Berlin, Heidelberg :  |b Springer Berlin Heidelberg,  |c 2010. 
300 # # |b online resource. 
336 # # |a text  |b txt  |2 rdacontent 
337 # # |a computer  |b c  |2 rdamedia 
338 # # |a online resource  |b cr  |2 rdacarrier 
347 # # |a text file  |b PDF  |2 rda 
490 1 # |a Springer Series in Materials Science,  |v 127  |x 0933-033X ; 
505 0 # |a 1. Introduction -- 2. History of conventional spin wave theory -- 3. Basic issues of Renormalization Group (RG) theory -- 4. Universality -- 5. Microscopic processes -- 6. Non-relevant magnons -- 7. Crossover phenomena -- 8. Metastability of universality classes -- 9. Relevant and non relevant interactions -- 10. Temperature dependence of the magnon excitation spectra -- 11. Magnetic heat capacity -- 12. Experimental verification of GSW bosons -- 13. Magnets with and without magnon gap (Goldstone mode) -- 14. Microscopic details: spin structure, site disorder, two order parameters -- 15. The critical magnetic behaviour -- 16. Thermal lattice expansion and magnetostriction -- 17. The total energy content -- 18. Superconductivity -- 19. Conclusions. 
520 # # |a Spin wave theory of magnetism and BCS theory of superconductivity are typical theories of the time before renormalization group (RG) theory. The two theories consider atomistic interactions only and ignore the energy degrees of freedom of the continuous (infinite) solid. Since the pioneering work of Kenneth G. Wilson (Nobel Prize of physics in 1982) we know that the continuous solid is characterized by a particular symmetry: invariance with respect to transformations of the length scale. Associated with this symmetry are particular field particles with characteristic excitation spectra. In diamagnetic solids these are the well known Debye bosons. This book reviews experimental work on solid state physics of the last five decades and shows in a phenomenological way that the dynamics of ordered magnets and conventional superconductors is controlled by the field particles of the infinite solid and not by magnons and Cooper pairs, respectively. In the case of ordered magnets the relevant field particles are called GSW bosons after Goldstone, Salam and Weinberg and in the case of superconductors the relevant field particles are called SC bosons. One can imagine these bosons as magnetic density waves or charge density waves, respectively. Crossover from atomistic exchange interactions to the excitations of the infinite solid occurs because the GSW bosons have generally lower excitation energies than the atomistic magnons. According to the principle of relevance the dynamics is governed by the excitations with the lowest energy. The non relevant atomistic interactions with higher energy are practically unimportant for the dynamics. 
650 # 0 |a Physics. 
650 # 0 |a Magnetism. 
650 1 4 |a Physics. 
650 2 4 |a Magnetism, Magnetic Materials. 
650 2 4 |a Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics. 
700 1 # |a Hoser, Andreas.  |e author. 
710 2 # |a SpringerLink (Online service) 
773 0 # |t Springer eBooks 
776 0 8 |i Printed edition:  |z 9783642024863 
830 # 0 |a Springer Series in Materials Science,  |v 127  |x 0933-033X ; 
856 4 0 |u https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02487-0 
912 # # |a ZDB-2-PHA 
950 # # |a Physics and Astronomy (Springer-11651)