Scientific
Coordinators:
Roderich
Moessner (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme Dresden, Germany)
Hirokazu Tsunetsugu (The
Institute for Solid State
Physics, The University of
Tokyo, Chiba, Japan)
Organisation:
Katrin
Lantsch (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme Dresden,
Germany)
Scope:
Impurities play an important role in the study of new spin states. On
one hand, they are an important fact of life when analysing magnetic
compounds such as putative spin liquids in their imperfect materials
realisations. On the other, they can act as formidable probes of spin
states which are otherwise featureless, such as topological spin
liquids. In particular, they have been found both to enhance or
inhibit ordering tendencies, or to nucleate extended textured spin
patterns around them.
More broadly, the appearance of textures is a particular form of
unconventional order in magnetism, an extreme form of non-collinearity
which may be stabilised by a number of mechanisms such as spin-orbit
coupling or flux-charge commensurability.
This three-day workshop is devoted to exploring these two aspects of
unconventional magnetism in a focused manner.
Invited participants:
Fabien Alet (Université Paul Sabatier, France)
Leon Balents (University of California, USA)
Claudio Castelnovo (Royal Holloway, UK)
John Chalker (University of Oxford, UK)
Kedar S. Damle (Tata Institute, India)
Benoit Doucot (LPTHE, France)
Sian Dutton (Princeton University, USA)
Claudia Felser (MPI CPfS, Germany)
Kazushi Kanoda (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
Naoki Kawashima (ISSP, Japan)
Dmitry Kovrizhin (MPIPKS, Germany)
Philippe Mendels (Université Paris-Sud, France)
Olexei Motrunich* (Caltech, USA)
Satoru Nakatsuji (ISSP, Japan)
Masaki Oshikawa (ISSP, Japan)
Didier Poilblanc (Université Paul Sabatier, France)
Achim Rosch* (Universität zu Köln, Germany)
Peter E. Schiffer (Penn State University, USA)
Arnab Sen (MPIPKS, Germany)
Yoshinori Tokura (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
Simon Trebst (Universität zu Köln, Germany)
Jeroen van den Brink (IFW Dresden, Germany)
Matthias Vojta (TU Dresden, Germany)
(* to be confirmed)
Applications for participation and poster or oral contributions are
welcome and should be made by using the application form on the workshop's
web page. The number of attendees is limited. The registration fee for the
workshop is 120 EUR and should be paid by all participants. Costs for
accommodation and meals will be covered by the Max Planck Institute for the
Physics of Complex Systems. Limited funding is available to partially cover
travel expenses. Please note that childcare is available
upon request.
Applications received before 15 February 2012 are
considered preferentially.
For further information please e-mail to:
imptex12pks.mpg.de
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