This article reviews static and dynamic interfacial effects in magnetism, focusing on
interfacially driven magnetic effects and phenomena associated with spin-orbit coupling and …

In the past, perfect surfaces have been shown to yield local critical behaviour that differs
from bulk critical behaviour. On the other hand, surface defects, whether they are of natural …

The massive field-theory approach for studying critical behavior in fixed space dimensions
d< 4 is extended to systems with surfaces. This enables one to study the surface critical …

Using Monte Carlo methods and finite-size scaling, we investigate surface criticality in the O
(n) models on the simple-cubic lattice with n= 1, 2, and 3, ie, the Ising, XY, and Heisenberg …

Interacting field theories for systems with a free surface frequently exhibit distinct universality
classes of boundary critical behaviors depending on gross surface properties. The boundary …

The liquid–vapour phase transition near a weakly attractive surface is studied by simulations
of the coexistence curves of water in hydrophobic pores. There is a pronounced gradual …

We study the crossover from the ordinary to the normal surface universality class in the three-
dimensional Ising bulk universality class. This crossover is relevant for the behavior of films …

Systems described by an O (n) symmetrical ϕ 4 Hamiltonian are considered in ad-
dimensional film geometry at their bulk critical points. The critical Casimir forces between the …

The behaviour of the 3D axial next-nearest-neighbor Ising model at the uniaxial Lifshitz point
is studied using Monte Carlo techniques. A new variant of the Wolff cluster algorithm permits …

Selected modern aspects of artificially layered structures and bulk materials involving
antiferromagnetic long-range order are the main themes of this book. Special emphasis is …