Copyright 2008 Christopher L. Henley

This is intended for students and auditors of Physics 654. Please consult Chris Henley first. (clh@ccmr.cornell.edu)

Each lecture is given with the date(s) of handouts.

• LECTURE 0: notes from 'Modern Models', MM 4.1 Spin Hamiltonians and exchange interactions; MM 5.0C Semiclassical treatment of spin system Also, MM 5.3 Antiferromagnetic and frustrated order (handout together, W 3/26/08).
• Lec. 1: MM 5.5 Spin waves (W 3/26/08; corrected version 3/27/08)
• MM 5.5 Z Spin waves: Order by disorder (with homework 5.5.5) (Th 3/27/08 electronic.)
• Lec. 2: MM 5.6 Quantum spin chains (F 3/28/08)
• MM Exercises for 5.6 (F 4/4/08)