Breaking the Waves

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Date 30.11.2012
Hour 14:15
Speaker Prof. Henrik Ronnow, Laboratory for Quantum Magnetism, ICMP - EPFL
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Category Conferences - Seminars
I will discuss: Future (Swiss) perspectives for neutron spectroscopy; How to find a room temperature superconductor; The theory of high-temperature superconductivity; and How surfing works - with emphasis on the Heisenberg antiferromagnet in 2D and in 1D:
-  The Hubbard heritage providing a consistent 1-band approximation of cuprates
-   A curious zone-boundary effect which may signal spinons in 2D
-   How to count spinons in 1D
-   Decay of spin-waves in 2D and creation of exotic states in 1D

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  • Free

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  • ICMP (Arnaud Magrez)

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  • Arnaud Magrez

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