Impurities and Textures in Unconventional Magnets

International ISSP-MPIPKS Workshop – 2 - 4 April 2012

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)

The announcement's pdf-file

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