Barbara B., Imry Y., Sawatzky G., Stamp P.C.E. (ed.). Quantum Magnetism

Springer + NATO Public Diplomacy Division, 2008, 258 pages, ISBN: 1402085109, 978-1-4020-8510-9, 978-1-4020-8511-6, 1402085117, 1402085125, 9781402085123NATO science for peace and security series. Physics and biophysics Series BThis book is based on some of the lectures during the Pacific Institute of Theoretical Physics (PITP) summer school on Quantum Magnetism, held during June 2006 in Les Houches, in the French Alps. The school was funded jointly by NATO, the CNRS, and PITP, and entirely organized by PITP.Magnetism is a somewhat peculiar research field. It clearly has a quantummechanical basis – the microscopic exchange interactions arise entirely from the exclusion principle, in conjunction with repulsive interactions between electrons. And yet until recently the vast majority of magnetism researchers and users of magnetic phenomena around the world paid no attention to these quantum-mechanical roots. Thus, e.g., the huge ($400 billion per annum) industry which manufactures hard discs, and other components in the information technology sector, depends entirely on room-temperature properties of magnets – yet at the macroscopic or mesoscopic scales of interest to this industry, room-temperature magnets behave entirely classically.A Gentle Introduction to the Functional Renormalization Group: The Kondo Effect in Quantum Dots
A Simple View on the Quantum Hall System
Halfvortices in Flat Nanomagnets
Spin Structure and Dynamical Magnetic Response of Spin-Orbital Polarons in Lightly Doped Cobaltates
Quantum Corrections to the Ising Interactions in LiY1−xHoxF4
Spin-Orbital-Lattice Physics in Ca-Based Ruthenates
Local Moment Approach to Multi-Orbital Anderson and Hubbard Models
High Field Level Crossing Studies on Spin Dimers in the Low Dimensional Quantum Spin System Na2T2(C2O4)3(H2O)2 with T=Ni, Co, Fe, Mn.
Quantum Nanomagnets and Nuclear Spins: An Overview
Quantum Dimer Models and Exotic Orders
Imaging Transverse Electron Focusing in Semiconducting Heterostructures with Spin-Orbit Coupling
Spectroscopic Analysis of Finite Size Effects Around a Kondo Quantum Dot
EffectiveMagnus Force on a Magnetic Vortex
Anisotropic Exchange in Spin Chains
A Review of Bose-Einstein Condensation in Certain Quantum Magnets Containing Cu and Ni