Physics 3220: Quantum Mechanics I

Instructor: John Price

Electronic devices are based on the electric charge of the electron, but the electron also has intrinsic angular momentum, or spin. A new research field named "spintronics" is devoted to electronic devices that take advantage of this degree of freedom. Shown above is an MRAM (Magnetic Random Access Memory) device, which incorporates spin-polarized tunnel junctions. Learn how it works here, and read more about spintronics here.

Weeks 14-16 Highlights:

The last part of the course is about angular momentum in quantum mechanics.

Reading:

Chapters 5 and 6 of Rae.

Home page from weeks 1-2, 3-4, 5-11, 12-13

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