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Experimental methods for investigating spin-glasses and short-range magnetically ordered systems - NFPL127
Title: Experimental methods for investigating spin-glasses and short-range magnetically ordered systems
Guaranteed by: Department of Condensed Matter Physics (32-KFKL)
Faculty: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Actual: from 2023
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 3
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Guarantor: Ross Harvey Colman, Dr.
Teacher(s): Ross Harvey Colman, Dr.
Annotation -
Spin-glasses, spin glass theory, common characterisational tools, advanced characterisational tools. For 1st and 2nd year Masters students, and Doctoral Students
Last update: Mikšová Kateřina, Mgr. (10.06.2022)
Course completion requirements -

The condition for completing the course is an oral exam.

The requirements for passing the oral exam correspond to the scope of the syllabus presented

at the lecture.

Last update: Mikšová Kateřina, Mgr. (10.06.2022)
Literature

[1] Mydosh, J. A. Spin glasses : an experimental introduction. (Taylor & Francis, 1993).

[2] Stephen Blundell, Magnetism in Condensed Matter, Oxford University Press, 2001

[3] Castellani, T. & Cavagna, A. Spin-glass theory for pedestrians. J. Stat. Mech. Theory Exp. 215-266 (2005).

[4] Mydosh, J. A. Spin glasses: Redux: An updated experimental/materials survey. Reports Prog. Phys. 78, (2015).

[5] Blundell, S. J., De Renzi, R., Lancaster, T. & Pratt, F. L. Muon Spectroscopy An Introduction. (Oxford University Press, 2021).

[6] Frandsen, B. A. & Billinge, S. J. L. Magnetic structure determination from the magnetic pair distribution function (mPDF): Ground state of MnO. Acta Crystallogr. Sect. A Found. Adv. 71, 325-334 (2015).

Last update: Mikšová Kateřina, Mgr. (10.06.2022)
Syllabus -

1. A review of magnetic interactions, magnetic ordered states and sources of disorder in magnetic materials.

2. Basic spin-glass theory: the bare-bones necessary understanding for an experimentalist.

3. Experimental Methods I: AC- and DC-susceptibility

4. Experimental Methods II: Specific heat and resistivity

5. Experimental Methods III: Neutron scattering

6. Experimental Methods IV: µSR spectroscopy

7. Experimental Methods V: mPDF measurements

Last update: Mikšová Kateřina, Mgr. (10.05.2023)
 
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