TY - BOOK ID - 217277 TI - Quantum magnetism AU - Barbara, Bernard. AU - NATO Advanced Study Institute on Quantum Magnetism PY - 2008 SN - 1281860700 9786611860707 1402085125 1402085117 1402085109 PB - Dordrecht, The Netherlands : Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Magnetism. KW - Quantum theory. KW - Mathematical physics KW - Physics KW - Electricity KW - Magnetics KW - Quantum dynamics KW - Quantum mechanics KW - Quantum physics KW - Mechanics KW - Thermodynamics KW - Chemistry, Physical organic. KW - Classical Electrodynamics. KW - Quantum Physics. KW - Magnetism, Magnetic Materials. KW - Quantum Information Technology, Spintronics. KW - Physical Chemistry. KW - Chemistry, Physical organic KW - Chemistry, Organic KW - Chemistry, Physical and theoretical KW - Optics. KW - Electrodynamics. KW - Quantum physics. KW - Magnetic materials. KW - Quantum computers. KW - Spintronics. KW - Physical chemistry. KW - Chemistry, Theoretical KW - Physical chemistry KW - Theoretical chemistry KW - Chemistry KW - Fluxtronics KW - Magnetoelectronics KW - Spin electronics KW - Spinelectronics KW - Microelectronics KW - Nanotechnology KW - Computers KW - Materials KW - Dynamics KW - Light UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:217277 AB - This bookis based on some of the lectures duringthe Paci?c 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 ?eld. It clearly has a quant- mechanical basis – the microscopic exchange interactions arise entirely from the exclusion principle, in conjunction with repulsive interactions between electrons. And yet until recently the vast majority of magnetism researchersand users of m- netic phenomena around the world paid no attention to these quantum-mechanical roots. Thus, e.g., 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. ER -