Outline

Classic Overview of
Spin wave

Origin of Exchange:
Heisenberg Hamiltonian

Spin Wave on linear

Ferromagnetic Chain
Weiss Mean Field Theory What’ the origin of the alignment of the atomic magnetic
moments?

For MFT we have predicted the results for Magnetization

Spin Wave Theory (Magnon)

N Spin

Lowest energy
configuration
𝑩𝒎𝒇 = 𝝀𝑴 + 𝑩
N-1 pair

The Exchange energy associated with this

𝐸𝑒𝑥 = −2𝐽𝑆 2 𝑁 − 1
From exchange perspective if the angle btw two spin is really really small then the
energy can be written as

𝐸𝑝𝑎𝑖𝑟 = −2𝐽𝑠Ƹ1 ⋅ 𝑠Ƹ2

𝐸𝑝𝑎𝑖𝑟 = −2𝐽𝑠 2 cos 𝜃 ≈ −2𝐽𝑠 2

The interaction energy is very very small therefore the energy of the system is also
small but mean field theory has the believe that the M = 0 the energy is high.
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