Magnetic Critical Scattering

'Professor Collins' book is to be welcomed ... will be a useful introduction and summary for postgraduate students working in the field of phase transitions'Professor R.A. Cowley, FRS (Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford), Contemporary Physics, Volume 31, Number 3, May/June 1990

• I: THEORY OF CRITICAL PHENOMENA: Introduction to critical phenomena; Ginzburg-Landau theory; Critical exponents; Universality, standard models and solvable models; Scaling; The renormalization group; Critical dynamics; More complex magnetic systems; Dilution, percolation and random fields; II: THE TECHNIQUE OF THERMAL NEUTRON SCATTERING AND ITS APPLICATION TO INVESTIGATE CRITICAL PHENOMENA: Basic properties of thermal neutrons; Correlation function formalism; Bragg scattering; Measurement of critical dynamics; III: MEASUREMENTS OF CRITICAL SCATTERING: Two- and one-dimensional systems; Three-dimensional Ising systems; Other simple systems in three dimensions; Multicritical points; Critical phase transitions in magnetic metals; Critical scattering investigations of dilution, percolation and random-field effects.