Physics of Amorphous Metals

摘要: The discovery of bulk metallic glasses has greatly increased the industrial importance of amorphous metals, and this will continue. This book describes the theoretical physics of amorphous metals, including the major theoretical developments of the last 20 years; The authors stress the universal aspects in the description of the phonon or magnon low-energy excitations in the amorphous metals, e.g. concerning the remarkable consequences of the properties of these excitations for the thermodynamics at low and intermediate temperatures. Intensively treated are tunneling excitations, which is another universal aspect of amorphous systems and responsible for many of their properties. Although the book is focused on analytical approaches, it also describes the numerical calculation of the atomic structure, the electronic excitations, and the itinerant magnetic properties of amorphous metallic alloys.