by Louk Rademaker | Jan 24, 2025 | Next Meeting
We are a few years into the “nickel age of superconductivity” now. In this presentation I will review what we know so far and what open questions remain to be answered. I will cover both square-planar nickelates and octahedral nickelates and compare to what we have...
by Louk Rademaker | Jan 24, 2025 | Past meetings
Strain engineering is an effective approach to tune the electronic properties of materials by applying mechanical deformation to their lattice. Conventional straining methods for 3D materials, such as epitaxial growth on substrates with lattice mismatch, dielectric...
by Louk Rademaker | Oct 28, 2024 | Past meetings
Over the last 20 years, a lot of progress has been made in the realisation of 2D arrangements of magnetic islands. The moment of each island must point along a local axis, and the system can be described by interacting Ising spins. If the magnetic moments are parallel...
by Louk Rademaker | Oct 28, 2024 | Past meetings
Antiferromagnetic conductors with suitably broken spatial symmetries host spin-polarized bands, which lead to transport phenomena commonly observed in metallic ferromagnets. In bulk materials, it is the given crystalline structure that determines whether symmetries...
by Louk Rademaker | Oct 28, 2024 | Past meetings
Changing the properties of materials on demand is crucial both for understanding the conditions which allow for the appearance of emergent order and for generating new functionalities. Using laser light for this purpose is a particularly interesting approach: It...
