Quantum Heisenberg model
The quantum Heisenberg model, developed by Werner Heisenberg, is a statistical mechanical model used in the study of critical points and phase transitions of magnetic systems, in which the spins of the magnetic systems are treated quantum mechanically. It is related to the prototypical Ising model, where at each site of a lattice, a spin σ i ∈ { ± 1 } {\displaystyle \sigma _{i}\in \{\pm 1\}} represents a microscopic magnetic dipole to which the magnetic moment is either up or down.