Magnetism

Prof. Dr. Markus Braden
2 h lectures: Thursday 10.00-11.30 seminar room 201 of II. Physikalisches Instituts start: Thursday, April 14, 2016 braden(at)ph2.uni-koeln(dot)de   3655

Lecture notes

part I: introduction & units part II: basic concepts & ferromagnetic order part III: ferri- and antiferromagnetic order part IV: Antiferromagnetic magnon dispersion part V: Multiferroics, superexchange and double exchange interaction part VI: Itinerant magnetism Introduction to the Rietveld method (Simon Holbein)

Inhalt

This lecture covers the following aspects I.  Introduction     (Units in electromagnetism)

II.  Basic concepts of diamagnetism and paramagnetism

III. Magnetic order and excitations

IV. Magnetic interactions and symmetry

V.  Magnetic space groups                                                                   special lecture: magnetic structure refinement with Fullprof

VI. Itinerant magnetism

VII. Mott-Hubbard insulators

VIII. Frustration of magnetic interaction

IX. Magnetism and unconventional superconductivity

X. Multiferroic and magnetoelectric materials

Literature

Literature:

Standard literature for solid state physics:
- C. Kittel Introduction to Solid State Physics             (basics)
- Ibach-Lüth  Festkörperphysik                          (more general)
- Ashcroft-Mermin Solid State Physics              (stronger focus on theory)

More specific for magnetism:
- Patrik Fazekas  Lecture Notes on Electron Correlation and Magnetism
- Marshal and Loversey Theory of thermal neutron scattering
- Toru Moriya Spin Fluctuations in Electron Magnetism

- W. Opechowski and Rosalia Guccione,  Magnetic Symmetryin George T. Rado and Harry Suhl (eds.),
Magnetism, vol. IIA (Academic Press: New York, 1965)


- Daniel I. Khomskii Transition metal compounds Cambridge Univ. Press 2014