OXFORD SYMPOSIUM ON QUANTUM MATERIALSSOMERVILLE COLLEGE, OXFORD, 10 MAY 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, Florida State University, USA
Forging a Theory of Iron-based Superconductors

10.00-10:20 Simon Clarke, 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, Oxford Materials
High Resolution microstructural analysis of phase separation phenomena in Fe-based superconductors

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

11.40-12.00 ZiadMelhem, 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, 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, RAL
New Surprises from a Famous Organic Superconductor
4.40-5.00 JesperRomers, Oxford Physics
Unconventional Superconductivity in Strontium Ruthenate
5.00-5.20 Moritz Hoesch, 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, Oxford Chemistry
Do birds use entangled spins in their magnetic compass sensor?
5.55-6:00pm Closing remarks and collection of posters

After meeting chats

6-7.00 pm Royal Oak Pub (Woodstock Road)

7.00 pm Group dinner
BRANCA restaurant (7-9.15pm)
111 Walton Street
Oxford OX2 6AJ

Party Menu

POSTERS:

The dimensions for posters (28 boards available)
are A0 landscape (height=841 mm x width=1189 mm ).
There are further 6 poster board
measuring width=1.80cm x height=1.20cm.

Acknowledgement:
This meeting is sponsored by the EPSRC grant: EP/I017836/1
(dinner and drinks after the meeting are not included

SCIENTIFIC CONTRIBUTIONS AS POSTERS

Zhiming Darren TAN / Oxford Physics / Spin Dynamics of the Frustrated Extended Kagome Lattice
PavelDudin / Diamond Light Source / Spatially resolved ARPES for studies of correlated materials
Noriki Terada / National Institute for Materials Science / High pressure neutron diffraction experiment on triangular lattice antiferromagnet using hybrid anvil cell
VikaranKhanna / Oxford Physics / Photoinduced Melting of Structural and Stripe order in La1.885Ba0.115CuO4 - Measured using Time Resolved Soft Xray Diffraction
James Edmands / Oxford Physics / Searching for topological superconductors
Francesca Foronda / Oxford Physics / Bose-Einstein condensation of magnons in the dimer system Cu(pyz)(gly)ClO4
VitaliyBabenko / Oxford Materials / Optimisation of the CVD synthesis of graphene on platinum foils
Stefanie Thiem / Oxford Physics / Electronic Structure and Quantum Diffusion of QuasiperiodicTilings
Sam Blake / Oxford Physics / The electronic structure of the caged compounds CeZn11 and LaZn11
Robert Schoonmaker / Oxford Physics / The evolution of the electronic structure of BaFe2As2 with pressure
Piet Schönherr / Oxford Physics / Topological Insulator Nanowires
GáborHalász / Oxford Physics / Time-reversal invariant realization of the Weyl semimetal phase
JordanThompson/
Richard Smith / Oxford Physics / Low-Temperature AC Heat Capacity Measurements of Magnetic Materials
Sungkyun Choi / Oxford Physics / Spin waves in honeycomb iridates and relevance of Kitaev physics
M. D. Watson/
Thorsten Hesjedal / Oxford Physics / On the magnetism of Mn-doped Bi2Te3
Shilei Zhang / Oxford Physics / Travelling magnetic vortex-antivortex pairs
Greg Brittles / Oxford Materials / Joint Between Technological Superconductors
AniNersisyan / Oxford Physics / Andreev Bound States(ABS) in Hybrid Superconductor-Carbon Nanotube Devices
Callum Young / Oxford Chemistry / Apical oxygen bonding in YBCO investigated by RMC refinement
Shilei Zhang / Oxford Physics / Travelling magnetic vortex-antivortex pairs
PavelDudin / Diamond Light Source / Spatially resolved ARPES for studies of correlated materials
Joseph Paddison / Oxford Chemistry / Magnetic Frustration: A Tale of Two Pyrochlores
Amir Abbas Haghighirad / Oxford Physics / Synthesis and Properties of Novel Highly Frustrated Quantum Materials
Francesca McGowan / CRC Press / Taylor & Francis / Publishing a book with CRC Press