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The new study has appeared in Physical Review Letters. The research joined theoretical and experimental physicists at UNSW with colleagues in Cambridge and Sheffield in the UK, and Novosibirsk in Russia. The work was funded by the Australian Research Council Discovery Programs, and included Alex Hamilton, Oleg Sushkov and Dima Miserev.
Read more at the phys.org science news website.
The 2017 Gordon Godfrey Workshop on Spin and Strong Electron Correlations was held at UNSW, School of Physics, from 30 October to 3 November 2017. This year’s workshop brought together 74 scientists including 37 invited speakers from Australia, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, Switzerland, Russia, USA. 12 PhD students and early career researchers presented their posters at the special evening session.
One day was dedicated for the discussion topics such as Spin orbit interaction in itinerant systems and nanostructures; Novel 2D materials; Oxides. Irridates. Magnetism etc.
The workshop has been productive and well attended. Essential aspect of the workshop was the opportunity for the participants to exchange new ideas. PhD students and young researchers got acquainted with each other through hot discussions in the conference room and at the poster session.
Have a look at the selection of photos of the 2017 Gordon Godfrey workshop.
Australian Institute of Physics Annual Scientific Meeting 2017 (called Summer meeting) will be held at University of New South Wales, 3 - 8 December 2017. The meeting covers the full spectrum of physics research, with an emphasis on students and early career researchers. The following topics will be presented at the meeting: Condensed Matter Physics, Astronomy and Space Sciences, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, Quantum Physics, Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Education etc.
The special Undergraduate Symposium will be held on Sunday, 3 December 2017 with additional events throughout the conference.
Harley has obtained a remarkable number of new and non-trivial theoretical results in his thesis “Interplay of Quantum and Statistical Fluctuations in Critical Quantum Matter”. He is awarded the title of Doctor in Philosophy/Physics. Congratulations!
Congratulations to Dima and Ashwin. The paper "Mechanisms for strong anisotropy of in-plane g-factors in hole based quantum point contacts" by D. S. Miserev, A. Srinivasan, O. A. Tkachenko, V. A. Tkachenko, I. Farrer, D. A. Ritchie, A. R. Hamilton, and O. P. Sushkov, has been published in Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 116803 (2017).
In-plane hole g-factors measured in quantum point contacts based on p-type heterostructures strongly depend on the orientation of the magnetic field with respect to the electric current. This effect, first reported a decade ago and confirmed in a number of publications, has remained an open problem. Systematic experimental studies to disentangle different mechanisms contributing to the effect is presented in the paper. The theory which describes it successfully is developed. We show that there is a new mechanism for the anisotropy and that this anisotropy is due to a new contribution to the Zeeman spin splitting.
Yaroslav Kharkov has been awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy for his thesis titled "Quantum critical matter: Casimir pairing, emergent orders and topological defects". Excellent work! Congratulations.
The 2017 Gordon Godfrey Workshop will be held at UNSW, School of Physics, from Monday 30 October to Friday 3 November 2017. The registration online will be open in September 2017.
The program comprises the topics such as spins/pseudospins and correlations in low dimensional systems and nanostructures; correlations in metal oxides; phase transitions, superconductivity, Bose condensation; novel materials.
Students and early career researchers are encouraged to participate and to submit poster presentations. We invite you to take this special opportunity and to enjoy an interesting scientific program and wonderful location. For more useful information see the 2017 Gordon Godfrey Workshop website.
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Congratulations to Ashwin Srinivasan, Dima Miserev and Karina Hudson. The paper showing that we can detect the signatures of Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions in hole quantum point contacts, and control their interplay by changing the substrate orientation, has just been published in Physical Review Letters. A. Srinivasan, D. S. Miserev, K. L. Hudson, O. Klochan, K. Muraki, Y. Hirayama, D. Reuter, A. D. Wieck, O. P. Sushkov, and A. R. Hamilton, Detection and Control of Spin-Orbit Interactions in a GaAs Hole Quantum Point Contact. Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 146801 (2017).
Congratulation to Harley Scammell - his paper has just been published in Physical Review B. The work predicts the emergence of multiple (three) universalities under combined pressure and field tuning and also predicts logarithmic corrections to the power law scaling. Scammell H. D. and Sushkov O. P. (2017) Multiple universalities in order-disorder magnetic phase transitions.
Phys. Rev. B 95, 094410.
