Spin glasses exhibit random magnetic ordering as a result of competing interactions such as exchange or anisotropy. While they are easily prepared, and many of their general properties have been described, a detailed understanding of their behaviour is still lacking after more than 30 years of study. This book reviews the progress that has been made over the last five years on several aspects of the spin glass problem. Unlike several recent books, the authors concentrate here on experimental results, limiting the theoretical discussion to efforts most directly related to such work. The field of spin glasses, or more generally random magnets, continues to attract the interest of researchers worldwide, and the contributions in this book clearly show that this will be the case for many years to come.
Contents:
- Exchange Frustration and Tranverse Spin Freezing (D H Ryan)
- Investigation of the Reentrant Spin Glass Phase by Neutron Scattering (I Mirebeau et al.)
- Random Anisotropy and Phase Transitions in Magnetic Glasses (D J Sellmyer & M J O'Shea)
- Magnetic Anisotropy of Spin Glasses (J S Kouvel)
- Phase Transitions in Magnets with Random Uniaxial Anisotropy (Y Y Goldschmidt)
- Finite Size Effects in Metallic Spin Glasses (J Bass & J A Cowen)
- Slow Dynamics in Spin Glasses and Other Complex Systems (E Vincent et al.)
- Spin Density Waves in Spin Glasses, Rare-Earth Metallic Alloys and Artificial Superlattices (S A Werner & J J Rhyne)
- Random Field Ising Model Experiments: Statics and Dynamics (D P Belanger)
- The Random Field Enigma (Y Shapir)
Readership: Condensed matter physicists.
