Speakers: Matthias Vojta (Technical University Dresden)
Place: Na Slovance, seminar room No. 117
Presented in English
Organisers:
Department of Condensed Matter Theory
Abstract: Coupled-dimer magnets have become model systems in the study of quantum phase transitions. After an introduction to quantum criticality, the talk will discuss various theoretical approaches to describe coupled-dimer magnets, using both field-theoretic and microscopic techniques, and link the results to experimental observations. In particular, a novel expansion in 1/d will be presented where d is spatial dimensionality. In addition, interesting phenomena arising from quenched disorder in coupled-dimer magnets will be highlighted, both for dilute and dense concentrations of defects.
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