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Quantum Magnetism (NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics) by B. Barbara, B. Barbara, Y. Imry, G. Sawatzky, P.C.E. Stamp is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This book is based on some of the lectures during the Pacific Institute of Theoretical Physics (PITP) summer school on “Quantum Magnetism”, held during June 2006 in Les Houches, in the French Alps. The school was funded jointly by NATO, the CNRS, and PITP, and entirely organized by PITP. Magnetism is a somewhat peculiar research field. It clearly has a quantum-mechanical basis – the microsopic exchange interactions arise entirely from the exclusion principle, in conjunction with respulsive interactions between electrons. And yet until recently the vast majority of magnetism researchers and users of magnetic phenomena around the world paid no attention to these quantum-mechanical roots. Thus, eg., the huge ($400 billion per annum) industry which manufactures hard discs, and other components in the information technology sector, depends entirely on room-temperature properties of magnets - yet at the macroscopic or mesoscopic scales of interest to this industry, room-temperature magnets behave entirely classically. This situation has now begun to change, and the quantum collective properties of magnetic systems, for so long of interest only to a few, have begun to move to centre stage

Who reads Quantum Magnetism (NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics)?

Author

B. Barbara, B. Barbara, Y. Imry, G. Sawatzky, P.C.E. Stamp

Publisher

Springer :, Published in cooperation with NATO Public Diplomacy Division

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9781402085123

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Chemistry, Engineering