Intro; Contents; Abstract; 1 Electromagnetism; 1.1 Basic Magnetostatics; 1.2 Magnetic Moment; 1.3 Orbital Angular Momentum; 1.4 Spin Angular Momentum; 1.5 Magnetic Moment in a Magnetic Field; 1.6 Magnetization; 1.7 Magnetostatic Maxwell Equations in Matter; 1.8 Demagnetizing Fields; 2 Atomic Origins of Magnetism; 2.1 Basics of Quantum Mechanics; 2.2 Orbital Angular Momentum in Quantum Mechanics; 2.3 Hydrogen Atom; 2.4 Addition of Angular Momentum and Magnetic Moment; 2.5 Generalization to Many Electrons; 3 Magnetism in Solids; 3.1 The Curie-Weiss Law; 3.2 Exchange Interaction
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3.3 Hydrogen Molecule3.4 Heisenberg, Ising, and XY Models; 3.5 Mean Field Theory; 3.6 Ground State of the Ferromagnetic Heisenberg Hamiltonian; 3.7 Ground State of the Antiferromagnetic Heisenberg Hamiltonian; 3.8 Ground State of the Classical Heisenberg Model; 3.9 Dipole-Dipole Interactions; 4 Spin Waves and Magnons; 4.1 Excitations of the Heisenberg Ferromagnet; 4.2 Equation of Motion Approach; 4.3 Holstein-Primakoff Transformation; 4.4 Spin-Wave Approximation; 4.5 Magnon-Magnon Interactions; 5 Magneto-Optical Effects; 5.1 Electromagnetic Energy and Zero-Loss Condition
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5.2 Permittivity Tensor and Magnetization5.3 Faraday Effect; 5.4 Magneto-Optical Energy; 6 Modern Topics: Cavity Optomagnonics; 6.1 Quantization of the Electromagnetic Field; 6.2 Optical Cavities as Open Quantum Systems; 6.3 The Optomagnonic Hamiltonian; 6.4 Coupled Equations of Motion and Fast Cavity Limit; 6.5 Linearized Optomagnonic Hamiltonian; 6.6 Prospects in Cavity Optomagnonics; References
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This primer thoroughly covers the fundamentals needed to understand the interaction of light with magnetically ordered matter and it focuses on "cavity optomagnonics" which is a topic undergoing intense study in current research. The book is unique in combining elements of electromagnetism, quantum magnetism, and quantum optics and it is intended for advanced undergraduate or graduate students.