My Adventures in Ferromagnetism

What is a permanent magnet? Where does its permanency
come from? How does a magnet behave when forced to
change its "permanent" magnetization? What is the
relationship between structure and ferromagnetic
properties? What is hysteresis and what is it useful
for? Does a ferromagnet blow-up when it gets to the
the critical point? (No) What happens to ferromagnet
near the critical point? Can one design an automatic
algorithm to find the critical point of a
ferromagnetic system? Can one demonstrate hysteresis
with purely mechanical means? Can one use theory to
bridge between two seemingly conflicting experimental
results? Can one build a physically interpretable
model based on the Preisach-Everett model of
ferromagnetism? If you find these questions
interesting you can find them and many more
discussed inside.

Autorentext

Eshel Faraggi was born in Beer-Sheva, Israel, the son ofNaomi and Moshe. He entered the Physics-Mathematics program atthe Hebrew University in Jerusalem at age 21, received a B.Sc. with honors in 1996 and a Ph.D. in Condensed Matter Physics in 2003 under the supervision of Linda Reichl at UT Austin. He is currently a Fellow at IUPUI.

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What is a permanent magnet? Where does its permanencycome from? How does a magnet behave when forced tochange its "permanent" magnetization? What is therelationship between structure and ferromagneticproperties? What is hysteresis and what is it usefulfor? Does a ferromagnet blow-up when it gets to thethe critical point? (No) What happens to ferromagnetnear the critical point? Can one design an automaticalgorithm to find the critical point of aferromagnetic system? Can one demonstrate hysteresiswith purely mechanical means? Can one use theory tobridge between two seemingly conflicting experimentalresults? Can one build a physically interpretablemodel based on the Preisach-Everett model offerromagnetism? If you find these questionsinteresting you can find them and many more discussed inside.