TY - BOOK ID - 77945165 TI - Statistical mechanics of magnetic excitations : from spin waves to stripes and checkerboards PY - 2013 SN - 129928129X 9814355518 9789814355513 9789814355506 981435550X 9781299281295 PB - Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, DB - UniCat KW - Magnetic resonance. KW - Nuclear spin. KW - Spin excitations. KW - Spin waves. KW - Statistical mechanics. KW - Mechanics KW - Mechanics, Analytic KW - Quantum statistics KW - Statistical physics KW - Thermodynamics KW - Waves, Spin KW - Ferromagnetism KW - Low temperatures KW - Nuclear spin KW - Excitations, Spin KW - Nuclear excitation KW - Spin, Nuclear KW - Angular momentum (Nuclear physics) KW - Nuclear physics KW - Resonance, Magnetic KW - Atoms KW - Magnetic fields UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77945165 AB - The aim of this advanced textbook is to provide the reader with a comprehensive explanation of the ground state configurations, the spin wave excitations and the equilibrium properties of spin lattices described by the Ising-Heisenberg Hamiltonians in the presence of short (exchange) and long range (dipole) interactions.The arguments are presented in such detail so as to enable advanced undergraduate and graduate students to cross the threshold of active research in magnetism by using both analytic calculations and Monte Carlo simulations.Recent results about unorthodox spin configurations suc ER -