Conveners
Invited Talks: Yamazaki Prize Giving and Lecture
- Thomas Prokscha (PSI)
Invited Talks: Invited Talk I
- Pietro Carretta
Invited Talks: Invited Talk II
- Hubertus Luetkens (Paul Scherrer Institut)
Invited Talks: Invited Talk III
- Stefano Carretta (Università di Parma, Dipartimento di Scienze Matematiche, Fisiche e Informatiche)
Invited Talks: Invited Talk IV
- Mauro Riccò (Nanocarbon Laboratory, Dipartimento di Scienze Matematiche, Fisiche e Informatiche & INSTM, Università degli Studi di Parma, 43124 Parma, Italy)
Invited Talks: Invited Talk V (Hybrid)
- Philippe Mendels (Université Paris(Sacaly)
Invited Talks: Invited Talk VI
- Toni Shiroka
Invited Talks: Invited Talk VII
- Paolo Santini
Invited Talks: Invited Talk VIII
- Martin Mansson (KTH)
Invited Talks: Conference Summary (Hybrid)
- Jeff Sonier (Simon Fraser University)
The key physical process at the heart of the muon-spin rotation ($\mu$SR) technique is that the spin of the positive muon precesses in a local magnetic field, a process that can be modelled either classically (torque on a magnetic dipole) or quantum mechanically (interference between components in a superposition). However, some aspects of the muon's interaction with its environment bring out...
Resonant Inelastic X-rays Scattering (RIXS) is an energy loss spectroscopy made with x rays whose energy is tuned to a suitable absorption edge. When the instrumental resolution is good enough, RIXS spectra provide information on the energy, dispersion and symmetry of local and collective excitations, such as ligand field excitations, magnons and paramagnons, phonons, particle-hole pairs,...
Zero-field muon spin relaxation experiments probe directly the intrinsic magnetic fields that arise spontaneously in a given material. The full understanding of such experiments requires a microscopic description of the material under investigation, including its electronic state and the complex interactions between the muon and the material’s electronic and structural degrees of freedom....
Implementation of advanced Quantum Technologies might benefit from the remarkable quantum properties shown by molecular spin systems based on the coordination bond. The versatility of the molecular approach combined with rational design has recently boosted the operativity temperature of molecules acting as bits of memory, otherwise known as Single-Molecule Magnets, or the coherence time of...
Batteries are a key-technology for accelerating decarbonization. The benefits of the development of advanced batteries are enormous: broader energy access, specifically for off-grid communities, the transport electrification that reduce the dependency from fossil fuels and the harmful local emission of nanoparticulates, better utilization of intermittent energy sources [1]. Europe has decided...
In geometrically-frustrated Ce-based pyrochlores, such as Ce$_2$Zr$_2$O$_7$, the effective S=1/2 of the Ce3+ crystal field ground state doublet is known to act both as a conventional dipole magnetic moment, and as an octupole. This constrains the form of its near-neighbour Hamiltonian, and allows for different ordered or quantum disordered ground states in this family of materials, where...
A molecular Mott insulator ß'-EtMe$_3$Sb[Pd(dmit)$_2$]$_2$ (dmit = 1,3-Dithiol-2-thione-4,5-dithiolate) is a quantum spin liquid (QSL) candidate. In the crystal with the space group $C2/c$, Pd(dmit)$_2$ anion radicals are strongly dimerized to form a dimer with spin 1/2. The dimers are arranged in an approximately isosceles-triangular lattice, which leads to a frustrated S = 1/2 Heisenberg...
One might wonder: what do muons have to do with quantum computing? I will argue that environmental muons and ionizing radiation in general represent a source of noise and dissipation which until recently has been underestimated in the quantum devices community. I will present measurements performed in the deep-underground laboratory of Gran Sasso [1] which show a significant improvement in the...
In this presentation I will give a short introduction into quasielastic neutron scattering (QENS) and its application to glass-forming systems. QENS operates on time scales from picoseconds to a microsecond and at the same time has a spatial resolution in the Ångström range. Therefore, it is well suited for the study of molecular and polymeric glass-formers.
The dynamics of glass-formers is...
