
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...

A Gentle Introduction to the Functional Renormalization Group: the Kondo Effect in Quantum Dots; S. Andergassen et al.- Halfvortices in Flat Nanomagnets; G.-W. Chen et al.- Spin Structure and Dynamical Magnetic Response of Spin-Orbital Polarons in Lightly Doped Cobaltates; M...