Oxford Symposium on Quantum Materials 2013

Superconductivity and Magnetism in Novel Materials

8.40-9.00 am Registration and coffee, posters displayed

Superconductivity I

9.00-9.15 Paolo Radaelli, Oxford Physics
Challenges and opportunities of the study of Quantum Materials

9.15-10.00 Peter Hirschfeld(link is external), University of Florida, USA
Forging a Theory of Iron-based Superconductors

10.00-10:20 Simon Clarke(link is external), Oxford Chemistry
Chemistry of layered chalcogenides and oxide chalcogenides

10.20-10.50 Coffee break

10.50-11.05 Matthew Watson, Oxford Physics
Field-induced magnetic transition in an iron pnictide superconductor, Ca10(Pt3As8)((Fe/Pt)2As2)5

11.05-11.25 Susie Speller(link is external), Oxford Materials
High Resolution microstructural analysis of phase separation phenomena in Fe-based superconductors

11.25-11.40 Saman Ghannadzadeh, Oxford Physics
The upper critical field of NaFeCoAs superconductor

11.40-12.00 Ziad Melhem(link is external), Oxford Instruments
Next Generation of High Field Superconducting Magnets

12.00-2pm Lunch and Posters

GROUP PHOTO

Magnetism I

2.00-2.20 Stephen Blundell(link is external), Oxford Physics
Probing frustration: muons and spin ice

2.20-2.35 Andrew Princep Oxford Physics
Crystal Field States in Candidate Quantum Spin Ice Pr2Sn2O7

2.35-2.50 Eliot Kapit Oxford Physics
Dynamical Spin Waves in the Pyrochlore Magnet

2.50-3.05 Ivelisse M Cabrera, Oxford Physics
Dispersion relations near quantum criticality in the quasi 1D Ising chain CoNb2O6 in transverse magnetic field

3.05-3.20 Natasha Perks Oxford Physics
Magneto-orbital helices: A novel route to coupling magnetism and ferroelectricity in multiferroic CaMn7O12

3.20-3.35 Sam Jones, Oxford Physics
Terahertz frequency electromagnon and magnon modes in multiferroic cupric oxide

3.35-3.50 Danielle Kaminski, Oxford Physics
Antiferromagnetic ordering in quasi-low dimensional polymeric magnets: a CW-ESR study

3.50pm-4.20pm Coffee break

Superconductivity and Magnetism II

4.20-4.40 Francis Pratt(link is external), RAL
New Surprises from a Famous Organic Superconductor

4.40-5.00 Jesper Romers, Oxford Physics
Unconventional Superconductivity in Strontium Ruthenate

5.00-5.20 Moritz Hoesch(link is external), Diamond
Anharmonicity due to Electron-Phonon Coupling in Magnetite

5.20-5.35 Peter Leek, Oxford Physics
Quantum mechanics in superconducting circuits

5.35-5.55 Peter Hore(link is external), Oxford Chemistry
Do birds use entangled spins in their magnetic compass sensor?

5.55-6:00pm Closing remarks and collection of posters