Feeling the strain: fields for electronic nematic order
Event Start:
2018-11-15T16:00:00
Event End:
2018-11-15T17:00:00
Event Information:
It is common to think of strains in solids in a somewhat passive sense, simply as the response of a material to external forces. However, for certain types of electronic order, strains of a specific symmetry can have much more important roles to play, acting as longitudinal, and even transverse, fields for the order parameter. In this talk, I will first describe how antisymmetric strain can act as a longitudinal field for electronic nematic order. I'll then go on to describe appropriate transverse fields for nematic order, including orthogonal antisymmetric
Event Location:
Hennings 201
Speaker:
Ian Fisher (Stanford)
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Event Start:
2018-11-15T16:00:00
Event End:
2018-11-15T17:00:00
Feeling the strain: fields for electronic nematic order
Event Information:
It is common to think of strains in solids in a somewhat passive sense, simply as the response of a material to external forces. However, for certain types of electronic order, strains of a specific symmetry can have much more important roles to play, acting as longitudinal, and even transverse, fields for the order parameter. In this talk, I will first describe how antisymmetric strain can act as a longitudinal field for electronic nematic order. I'll then go on to describe appropriate transverse fields for nematic order, including orthogonal antisymmetric
Event Location:
Hennings 201