08.128.7014 Quantum Spintronics

Course offering details

Instructors: apl. Prof. Dr. Martin Jourdan

Event type: online: Lecture/practice class

Displayed in timetable as: 08.128.7014

Hours per week: 4

Credits: 6,0

Language of instruction: German

Min. | Max. participants: - | -

Requirements / organisational issues:
Previous knowledge from Experimental Physics 5c (condensed matter physics) is recommended but not required.


Topics:

Chapter 1: Overview - Introduction
 

Chapter 2: Fundamentals - single individual magnetic moments.

Units, Magnetic Moments of Atoms, Spin-Orbit Coupling, Hund Rules, Zeeman Splitting

 
Chapter 3: Electronic states and magnetic moments in the periodic potential of solids

Essentials of Bloch theory, tight binding band structure, crystal electric field


Chapter 4: Ensembles of individual magnetic moments

Paramagnetism of localized moments, paramagnetism of conduction electrons, diamagnetism


Chapter 5: Coupled magnetic moments – magnetic ordering

Dipole-Dipole interaction, exchange interaction, Mean field model of ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism, Band (Stoner) model of ferromagnetism, magnetic excitations (magnons)

 
Chapter 6: Hard Disk Drive – multidomain states and magnetoresistance effects

Micromagnetic energy terms, magnetic domains and domain walls, Stoner Wohlfarth systems, anisotropic magnetoresistance (AMR), giant magnetoresistance (GMR), tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR)

 
Chapter 7: Magnetic Random Access Memory – torques and dynamics

Spin-transfer torque, spin-orbit torque, Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation

 
Chapter 8: Recent developments in quantum spintronics

Logic gates, Skyrmions, antiferromagnetic spintronics, spin quantum bits

Appointments
Date From To Room Instructors
1 Mon, 12. Apr. 2021 12:15 13:45 N.N. apl. Prof. Dr. Martin Jourdan
2 Wed, 14. Apr. 2021 08:15 09:45 N.N. apl. Prof. Dr. Martin Jourdan
3 Mon, 19. Apr. 2021 12:15 13:45 N.N. apl. Prof. Dr. Martin Jourdan
4 Wed, 21. Apr. 2021 08:15 09:45 N.N. apl. Prof. Dr. Martin Jourdan
5 Mon, 26. Apr. 2021 12:15 13:45 N.N. apl. Prof. Dr. Martin Jourdan
6 Wed, 28. Apr. 2021 08:15 09:45 N.N. apl. Prof. Dr. Martin Jourdan
7 Mon, 3. May 2021 12:15 13:45 N.N. apl. Prof. Dr. Martin Jourdan
8 Wed, 5. May 2021 08:15 09:45 N.N. apl. Prof. Dr. Martin Jourdan
9 Mon, 10. May 2021 12:15 13:45 N.N. apl. Prof. Dr. Martin Jourdan
10 Wed, 12. May 2021 08:15 09:45 N.N. apl. Prof. Dr. Martin Jourdan
11 Mon, 17. May 2021 12:15 13:45 N.N. apl. Prof. Dr. Martin Jourdan
12 Wed, 19. May 2021 08:15 09:45 N.N. apl. Prof. Dr. Martin Jourdan
13 Wed, 26. May 2021 08:15 09:45 N.N. apl. Prof. Dr. Martin Jourdan
14 Mon, 31. May 2021 12:15 13:45 N.N. apl. Prof. Dr. Martin Jourdan
15 Wed, 2. Jun. 2021 08:15 09:45 N.N. apl. Prof. Dr. Martin Jourdan
16 Mon, 7. Jun. 2021 12:15 13:45 N.N. apl. Prof. Dr. Martin Jourdan
17 Wed, 9. Jun. 2021 08:15 09:45 N.N. apl. Prof. Dr. Martin Jourdan
18 Mon, 14. Jun. 2021 12:15 13:45 N.N. apl. Prof. Dr. Martin Jourdan
19 Wed, 16. Jun. 2021 08:15 09:45 N.N. apl. Prof. Dr. Martin Jourdan
20 Mon, 21. Jun. 2021 12:15 13:45 N.N. apl. Prof. Dr. Martin Jourdan
21 Wed, 23. Jun. 2021 08:15 09:45 N.N. apl. Prof. Dr. Martin Jourdan
22 Mon, 28. Jun. 2021 12:15 13:45 N.N. apl. Prof. Dr. Martin Jourdan
23 Wed, 30. Jun. 2021 08:15 09:45 N.N. apl. Prof. Dr. Martin Jourdan
24 Mon, 5. Jul. 2021 12:15 13:45 N.N. apl. Prof. Dr. Martin Jourdan
25 Wed, 7. Jul. 2021 08:15 09:45 N.N. apl. Prof. Dr. Martin Jourdan
26 Mon, 12. Jul. 2021 12:15 13:45 N.N. apl. Prof. Dr. Martin Jourdan
27 Wed, 14. Jul. 2021 08:15 09:45 N.N. apl. Prof. Dr. Martin Jourdan
Course specific exams
Description Date Instructors Mandatory
1. Oral Examination Time tbd Yes
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Instructors
apl. Prof. Dr. Martin Jourdan