FUNDAMENTALS OF LINEAR AND NONLINEAR SPIN-WAVE PROCESSES IN BULK AND FINITE MAGNETIC SAMPLES

The following sections are included:

• INTRODUCTION

  • Magnetic Interactions and Ordering

  • Concept of Spin Waves

  • Effects at Surfaces and Interfaces

• SPIN WAVES IN BULK MATERIALS

  • Regimes of Wave Vector

  • Microscopic Theory of Spin Waves

  • Macroscopic Theory of Spin Waves

  • Effects of Retardation

  • Antiferromagnets and Ferrimagnets

• SPIN WAVES IN FILMS

  • The Boundary Problem

  • Magnetostatic Spin Waves in Ferromagnets

  • Exchange-Dominated Spin Waves in Ferromagnets

  • Dipole-Exchange Spin Waves in Ferromagnets

  • Exchange Spin Waves in Ferromagnets: Microscopic Theory

• SPIN WAVES IN MULTILAYER SYSTEMS

  • Double-Layer Magnetic Systems

  • Magnetic Superlattices

• FUNDAMENTALS OF MAGNETIC NONLINEARITIES

  • Origins of the Nonlinear Effects

  • Classical Hamiltonian Formalism for Spin Waves

  • Microscopic Approach to Spin-Wave Interactions

• NONLINEAR DYNAMICS OF SPIN WAVES

  • Spin-Wave Parametric Processes in Limited Ferromagnetic Samples

  • Dynamics of Spin-Wave Auto-Oscillations: Transition to Chaos

  • Dynamics of Propagating Spin Waves in Films: Envelope Solitons

• CONCLUSIONS

• REFERENCES