Conveners
Invited talks: Opening session
- Jaroslav Fabian (University of Regensburg)
The Shastry-Sutherland lattice is one of the paradigmatic geometries used in frustrated magnetism, and the properties of the Heisenberg and Ising models on this lattice have been studied extensively over the last two decades. The Heisenberg model has several well identified properties, including a spin gap and a remarkable series of magnetization plateaus at $1/8$, $2/15$, $1/6$, $1/4$, $1/3$,...
Induction-heating of nanoparticles placed inside chemical reactors is an alternative green approach for heating high-temperature endothermic catalytic reactions such as steam methane reforming (SMR) [1,2]. As of today, most of the world's hydrogen is produced from natural gas through SMR, but the reaction has conventionally been heated by firing, causing $\sim 1 \%$ of the world’s CO$_2$...
The antiferromagnetic spin-$1/2$ spin chain with Heisenberg-Ising (XXZ) anisotropy is a rich source of novel phenomena. Good physical realizations are the compounds SrCo$_2$V$_2$O$_8$ and BaCo$_2$V$_2$O$_8$ where the Co$^{2+}$ ions have effective spin-$1/2$ and are coupled by antiferromagnetic interactions into chains while collinear long-range magnetic order occurs below $T_N\approx 5$ K due...
Despite the complexity of high-$T_c$ cuprates, we have identified a series of surprisingly simple and universal behaviors [1-7]. Building on these findings, we show [8,9] that the phenomenology of cuprates across the phase diagram can be fully described by two relatively simple relations:
$\hspace{2cm}$$1 + p = n_{loc} + n_{eff}\;\; (1)\hspace{2cm} \rho_S = n_{eff}\cdot(O_S\,n_{loc})\;\;...
