Physics 239 (211C) : Lecture videos

COURSE OUTLINE

 

LECTURE	DATE	TOPIC
No. 1	03/30	sources of magnetism; the periodic table
No. 2	04/01	Hund's rules; Larmor diamagnetism and van Vleck paramagnetism
No. 3	04/06	Hubbard model : Stoner mean field theory
No. 4	04/08	Hubbard model : mean field phase diagram for PM, FM, AFM
No. 5	04/13	Interaction of local moments; magnetism and the Coulomb interaction
No. 6	04/15	Heitler-London theory, Heisenberg model, mean field phases of magnets
No. 7	04/20	Mean field theories of magnetic order
No. 8	04/22	Magnetic ordering: susceptibility and critical temperature
No. 9	04/27	Quasi-low-dimensional magnetism and magnetic ordering
No. 10	04/29	Spin wave theory for ferromagnets
No. 11	05/04	Spin wave theory for antiferromagnets
No. 12	05/06	Modern theories of quantum magnetism
No. 13	05/11	Physics of quantum spin change
No. 14	05/13	Valence bond solid models
SPECIAL	---	Hal Tasaki: The Lieb-Schultz-Mattis theorem and quantum spin chains
No. 15	05/18	VBS states and symmetry protected topological phases
No. 16	05/20	Coherent state path integration and the spin path integral
No. 17	05/25	Quantum spin tunneling in molecular magnets
No. 18	05/27	Haldane's mapping to the nonlinear sigma model
No. 19	06/01	The limit of large N (I)
No. 20	06/03	The limit of large N (II)
No. 21	06/08	Jordan-Wigner transformation and quantum XY chain
No. 22	06/10	Majorana fermions and intro to Kitaev toric code and honeycomb lattice models
No. 23	06/15	Kitaev's honeycomb lattice model
No. 24	06/17	Kitaev's toric code