Table of Contents

1: Introduction
2: Magnetic Interactions in Molecular Systems
3: Observation of Microscopic Magnetism
4: Single Molecular Magnets
5: Thermally Activated Magnetic Relaxation
6: Magnetic Tunnelling of an Isolated Spin
7: Introduction to Path Integrals
8: Tunnelling in a Time-Dependent Magnetic Field at Low Temperature
9: Interaction of a Spin with the External World at Low Temperature
10: Tunnelling between Excited States
11: Coherence and Decoherence
12: Disorder and Magnetic Tunnelling
13: More Experiments on Single Molecule Magnets
14: Other Magnetic Molecules
15: Emerging Trends in Molecular Nanomagnetism
A: Systems of Units, Physical Contants and Basic Mathematical Tools
B: The Magnetic Field
C: How Irreversibility Comes In
D: Basic Properties of the Master Equation
E: Derivation of the Arrhenius Law
F: Phonons and How to Use Them
G: High Order Perturbation Theory
H: Proof of the Landau-Zener-Stuckelberg Formula
I: Tunnelling Between Hyperfine States
J: Specific Heat
K: master Equation for the Density Matrix

About the Author

Dante Gatteschi
Department of Chemistry
Università degli Studi di Firenze
via della Lastruccia 3
50019 Sesto Fiorentino
ITALY; Roberta Sessoli
Department of Chemistry
Università degli Studi di Firenze
via della Lastruccia 3
50019 Sesto Fiorentino
ITALY; Jacques Villain
17 Boulevard de Jomardière,
F-38120
Saint-Egrève

Reviews

'The book can be strongly recommended. It succeeds in bridging the gap between the many different facets of chemistry and physics. The subject is sure to gain in importance in the coming years.' Angewandte Chemie, March 2007 Written by the chemist originators as well as by a theorist who has been one of the protagonists of the development of the field, this book is explicitly addressed to an audience of chemists and physicists and aims to use a language suitable for the two communities. Lab Plus International