Course

PHYS-491: Magnetism in materials

Summary

The lectures will provide an introduction to magnetism in materials, covering fundamentals of spin and orbital degrees of freedom, interactions between moments and some typical ordering patterns. Selected experimental techniques and their application in current research will be presented.

Lectures

Instructor

Ivica Zivkovic

Teaching & PhD PhD Students Berna Esmer Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector Virgile Favre, Bhushan Hegde, Yikai Yang Courses Magnetism in materials PHYS-491 The lectures will provide an introduction to magnetism in materials, covering fundamentals of spin and orbital degrees of freedom, interactions between moments and some typical ordering patterns. Selected experimental techniques and their application in current research will be presented.

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https://edu.epfl.ch/coursebook/en/magnetism-in-materials-PHYS-491

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http://go.epfl.ch/PHYS-491

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Summary

Lectures

Instructor

Ivica Zivkovic

Official source

https://edu.epfl.ch/coursebook/en/magnetism-in-materials-PHYS-491

Moodle Page

http://go.epfl.ch/PHYS-491

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Lectures in this course (88)

Magnetic Spin: Elementary Particles and Quantum Effects

Covers magnetic spin, elementary particles, quantum effects, and the Dirac equation.

Isolated Magnetic Moments: Overview

Explores the behavior of atoms in a magnetic field and their magnetic response.

Isolated Magnetic Moments: Canonical Momentum

Explores the intrinsic spin of electrons, angular momentum, magnetic fields, and canonical momentum.

Isolated Magnetic Moments: An Atom In Magnetic Field

Explores the Hamiltonian of an atom in a magnetic field and its paramagnetic and diamagnetic responses.

Isolated Magnetic Moments: Magnetic Susceptibility

Explores the concept of magnetic susceptibility as a tensor of proportionality between magnetization and the magnetizing field.

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