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Mar 20 – 23, 2023
Campus Garching
Europe/Berlin timezone

Spin-orbit excitons in transition metal oxides

Mar 23, 2023, 9:00 AM
45m
MW 2 001 - Lecture hall (Fakultät für Maschinenwesen)

MW 2 001 - Lecture hall

Fakultät für Maschinenwesen

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Plenary (only invited by ECNS team!) Magnetism, Superconductivity, Topological Systems, Magnetic Thin Films an other electronic phenomena Plenary

Speaker

Dr Chris Stock (University of Edinburgh)

Description

Transition metal ion compounds that have an orbital degree of freedom have recently been the focus of much attention owing to the importance that spin-orbit coupling plays in the creation of new phases and excitations. We will outline a series of scattering studies illustrating the role that neutrons have in characterizing spin-orbit physics in transition metal compounds. Particular focus will be given to third-row transition metal ions where spin-orbit coupling is of a similar energy scale to symmetric exchange coupling and distortion terms in the magnetic Hamiltonian. We will outline a formalism to understand these excitations based on single-ion physics which, due to the spatially diffuse nature of orbitals, we term spin-orbit excitons. This approach treats single-ion physics, exchange, and distortion terms equally and we will discuss examples applied to compounds containing V3+, Fe2+, and Co2+ containing materials.

References:Phys. Rev. B 98, 024415 (2018); Phys. Rev. B 100, 075143 (2019); Phys. Rev. B 102, 245119 (2020); Phys. Rev. B 104, L020411 (2021); Phys. Rev. B 106, 054431 (2022)

Primary author

Dr Chris Stock (University of Edinburgh)

Co-authors

Dr Harry Lane (St. Andrews) Dr Paul Sarte (UC Santa Barbara)

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