R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminars |
Events During the Week of March 31st through April 7th, 2013
Monday, April 1st, 2013
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Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013
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Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013
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Thursday, April 4th, 2013
- Specific heat and magnetization studies of Dy<sub>2</sub>Ti<sub>2</sub>O<sub>7</sub>
- Time: 10:00 am
- Place: 5310 Chamberlin
- Speaker: Jan Kycia, University of Waterloo
- Abstract: Dy2Ti2O7 is a material with a pyrochlore lattice of corner-sharing tetrahedral. Crystal-field effects constrain the magnetic moments of the rare-earth ions to point along the axis connecting the centres of the two neighbouring tetrahedra. As a result, the magnetic moments are highly frustrated and possess a ground state containing a large residual entropy similar to water ice. Because of this similarity to water ice, the system is called a spin ice. Recently a very interesting perspective has been developed in which the thermal excitations in the magnetic spins are viewed as magnetic monopoles. In this talk, I will review some of the progress in understanding spin ice and the monopole picture. I will discuss my group's results of specific heat, ac susceptibility and magnetization measurements.
- Host: McDermott
Friday, April 5th, 2013
- No events scheduled