Instructors: Dr. Georg Schwiete; Prof. Dr. Jairo Sinova
Event type:
Lecture with practice class
Displayed in timetable as:
Quant.transports and
Hours per week:
4
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
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Contents:
We will discuss the following topics:
- Basics of many-body physics: second quantization and imaginary-time path integral
- Magnetism: Models and phenomenology
- Spintronics: spin valves, spin transfer torque and domain walls
- Transport: microscopic description, spin-dependent transport
Recommended reading list:
A. Altland and B. Simons: "Condensed Matter Field Theory", 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, 2010
Y. Nazarov and Y. Blanter: "Quantum Transport", Cambridge University Press, 2009
R. Duine: "Spintronics", Lecture notes available online at http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~Duine102/
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