Jan Wyzula and Milan Orlita, University of Fribourg and LNCMI Grenoble. Magnons, or quantized spin waves, are collective magnetic excitations in solids. These boson-like quasiparticles disperse with lattice momentum k, carry a fixed energy, and possess an integer spin or [...]

Sergei Zvyagin, HLD Dresden. Antiferromagnetic materials with spin 1/2 and triangular-lattice structures are in the focus of modern quantum physics, in particular, in connection with Anderson’s idea of “resonating valence bond” states in frustrated spin systems. He proposed that the [...]

Amirreza Ataei and Louis Taillefer, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada, Cyril Proust and David Vignolles, LNCMI-Toulouse. In certain materials called “strange metals”, the electrical resistivity follows a perfectly linear temperature dependence at low temperature, in contrast to the standard quadratic dependence [...]

Amit Pawbake and Clément Faugeras, LNCMI Grenoble. Spin waves (magnons) in magnetically ordered solids – ferromagnets or antiferromagnets – are collective excitations of an ensemble of spins. They propagate in the solid and do couple to phonons of the host [...]

Uli Zeitler, Steffen Wiedmann, HFML Nijmegen and Sergio Pezzini, Istituto Nanoscienze-CNR Pisa. The quantum Hall effect (QHE), a paradigmatic phenomenon of twodimensional (2D) electron systems in high magnetic fields, typically occurs only at very low temperatures of a few kelvin. [...]

Tino Gottschall, HLD Dresden. We are witnessing a great transition towards a society powered by renewable energies to meet the ever-stringent climate target. Hydrogen, as an energy carrier, will play a key role in building a climate-neutral society. Although liquid [...]

Alessandro Surrente, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Paulina Plochocka, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology and LNCMI Toulouse. The synthesis of colloidal nanocrystals with near-unity photoluminescence (PL) quantum yields has vastly extended the potential of metal-halide perovskites for solid-state [...]

Elena Blundo, Antonio Polimeni, Sapienza University of Rome, Adam Babiński, University of Warsaw, and Peter Christianen, HFML Nijmegen Strain plays an important role in two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors. Thanks to their all-surface nature, these 2D materials feature an extraordinary capability to [...]

J. Chang, Zürich University, M. Ichioka, Okayama University, D. Campbell, D. Le Boeuf, LNCMI Grenoble. In the physics of correlated electron systems, van Hove singularities play a key role. These are points in the band structure where the density of [...]

Denis Gorbunov, HLD Dresden. Optical excitations in solids require conservation of momentum and energy. This applies also to magnetic excitations, when a magnon with a given momentum and energy is created / annihilated by absorbing / emitting a photon. The [...]