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Instructors: Dr. Georg Schwiete
Event type:
Lecture/practice class
Displayed in timetable as:
Quant.transports and
Hours per week:
4
Credits:
6,0
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
- | -
Requirements / organisational issues:
PREREQUISITES
We will build upon basic concepts of quantum mechanics and statistical physics.
EXERCISES
We plan to have tutorials every second week, thus having a (6+2) format rather than a 2x(3+1) one. Excercise sheets will be correspondingly distributed, evaluated and discussed. A copy of the exercise sheet will be uploaded on the reader.uni-mainz.de website.
To gain access to the exam, the following criteria have to be fulfilled:
a) average score above 50%;
b) minimum score per sheet of 25%, with one exception without justification.
EXAM
The course can be taken as a "Vertiefende Vorlesung". The exam can be either oral or written, and we will decide during the first week of the semester.
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, disorder, spin-dependent transport
Recommended reading list:
A. Altland and B. Simons: "Condensed Matter Field Theory", 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, 2010
R. Duine: "Spintronics", Lecture notes available online at http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~Duine102/
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