Experimental methods for investigating spin-glasses and short-range magnetically ordered systems

Syllabus

1. A review of magnetic interactions, magnetic ordered states and sources of disorder in magnetic materials.

2. Basic spin-glass theory: the bare-bones necessary understanding for an experimentalist.

3. Experimental Methods I: AC- and DC-susceptibility

4. Experimental Methods II: Specific heat and resistivity

5. Experimental Methods III: Neutron scattering

6. Experimental Methods IV: µSR spectroscopy

7. Experimental Methods V: mPDF measurements

Annotation

Spin-glasses, spin glass theory, common characterisational tools, advanced characterisational tools. For 1st and 2nd year Masters students, and Doctoral Students