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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
Teaching methods:	full-time

Guarantor:	Ross Harvey Colman, Dr.

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Annotation -

Last update: Mgr. Kateřina Mikšová (10.06.2022)

Spin-glasses, spin glass theory, common characterisational tools, advanced characterisational tools. For 1st and 2nd year Masters students, and Doctoral Students

Course completion requirements -

Last update: Mgr. Kateřina Mikšová (10.06.2022)

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.

Literature

Last update: Mgr. Kateřina Mikšová (10.06.2022)

[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).

Syllabus -

Last update: Mgr. Kateřina Mikšová (10.05.2023)

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