Lectures and Selected Reading Material
Daniel Arovas: A Quantum Mechanic’s Toolbox for Magnetism
Michael Coey: Oxide and Semiconductor Magnetism
- Lectures #1, #2, and #3
- Magnetic carbon
- Mixed valent manganites
- Materials for spin electronics
Daniel Cox: Quantum Impurity Problems
- Lectures
- Exotic Kondo effects in metals
- Non-Fermi-liquid behavior in d- and f-electron metals
- A. C. Hewson, The Kondo Problem to Heavy Fermions (Cambridge, 1993)
Daniel Dessau: Photoemission and Magnetic Oxides
Anupam Garg: Spin Semiclassics
- Lectures #1 and #2
- Path integrals and stationary phase approximations
- The semiclassical propagator for spin coherent states
- Topologically quenched tunnel splitting in spin systems without Kramers degeneracy
- Quantum phase intereference and parity effects in molecular clusters
- Spin Tunneling in molecular magnets
- Magnetic tunneling told to ignorants by two ignorants
- SU(2) instantons with boundary jumps and spin tunneling in magnetic molecules
- Spin tunneling in magnetic molecules: quasisingular perturbations and discontinuous SU(2) instantons
- L. D. Faddeev, in Methods in Field Theory , Les Houches 1975, R. Balian and J. Zinn-Justin, eds. (North-Holland, 1976)
Olle Heinonen: Computational Applied Magnetics
Claire Lhuillier: Frustrated Magnets
- Lectures
- Frustration in two-dimensional quantum antiferromagnets
- A. Auerbach, Interacting Electrons and Quantum Magnetism (Springer-Verlag, 1994): chapters 5, 6, 8, 9, 11, 12, 15
Allan MacDonald: Semiconductor Spintronics
Brian Maple: Magnetic Impurities in Metals
- Lectures #1, #2, and #3
- Heavy fermion phenomena
- How do fermi liquids get heavy and die?
- Novel superconductivity in f-electron systems
- Kondo effect: alloys and compounds
- Non-fermi liquid ground states in strongly correlated f-electron materials
- Electronic pairing in exotic superconductors
- Superconductivity
Andrew Millis: Theory of Magnetic Oxides
Stuart Parkin: Spintronics
- Lecture notes #1-2a, pt. 1a, #1-2a, pt. 1b, #1-2a, pt. 2, #1-2b, pt. 1a1, #1-2b, pt. 1a2, #1-2b, pt. 1b, #1-2b, pt. 2, and #3
Daniel Ralph: Nanomagnets
- Lecture notes #1, #2, and #3
- Quantum description of ferromagnet metal nanoparticles
- Magnetization orientation dependence of the quasiparticle spectrum and hysteresis in metal nanoparticles
- Noncollinear spin transfer in Co/Cu/Co multilayers
Subir Sachdev: Quantum Criticality in Magnetic Systems
- Lectures: pdf or ppt
- Quantum phase transitions of correlated electrons in two dimensions
- Heisenberg spins: ferromagnets and antiferromagnets
Richard Scalettar: Computational Quantum Magnetism
- Lecture #1
- Lecture #2
- Lecture #3
- Mean Field Theory for the Hubbard Model #1
- Mean Field Theory for the Hubbard Model #2
- Mean Field Theory for the Hubbard Model #3
- Worldline Monte Carlo
- Determinant Quantum Monte Carlo
B. Sriram Shastry: The Microscopic Basis of Magnetism
- Lecture notes #1 and #2
- Figures
- Antiferromagnetism: theory of superexchange interaction
- New approach to the theory of superexchange interactions
- Magnitude and origin of the band gap in NiO
- An electron spin resonance selection rule for spin-gapped systems
Nicola Spaldin: Electronic Structure Methods for Magnetic Materials
Harry Suhl: Modern Micromagnetism
- Lectures and Figures and References
- Full Suhl reading list
- Stochastic Problems in Physics and Astronomy
- On the Theory of Spin Waves in Ferromagnetic Media
- Theory of the Magnetic Damping Constant
- “Dynamical-thermal” reversal in a fine micromagnetic grain
- Localized Surface Nucleation of Magnetic Reversal
Yuri Suzuki: Fabricated Magnetic Structures
Wolfgang Wernsdorfer: Molecular Magnets