Quantum Magnetism

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Schollwöck, Ulrich (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Richter, Johannes (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Farnell, Damian J.J (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Bishop, Raymond F. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2004.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, 645
• Subjects: Magnetism.; Magnetic materials.; Solid state physics.; Spectroscopy.; Microscopy.; Superconductivity.; Superconductors.; Magnetism, Magnetic Materials.; Solid State Physics.; Spectroscopy and Microscopy.; Strongly Correlated Systems, Superconductivity.

The investigation of magnetic systems where quantum effects play a dominant role has become a very active branch of solid-state-physics research in its own right. The first three chapters of the "Quantum Magnetism" survey conceptual problems and provide insights into the classes of systems...

Table of Contents:

• One-dimensional magnetism
• Quantum magnetism in two dimensions: From semi-classical Néel order to magnetic disorder
• Molecular magnetism
• Spin wave analysis of heisenberg magnets in restricted geometries
• Simulations of pure and doped low-dimensional spin-1/2 gapped systems
• Field-theoretical methods in quantum magnetism
• The coupled cluster method applied to quantum magnetism
• Integrability of quantum chains: Theory and applications to the spin-1/2 XXZ chain
• Quantum phases and phase transitions of Mott insulators
• Spin-Orbit-Topology, a triptych.