SPICE Young Research Leaders Group Workshops on Insulator spintronics starts today!! Welcome all to an exciting new workshop.
Events
31.07.2017 – SPICE Young Research Leaders Workshop starts
25.07.2017 – SPICE workshop Topology Matters starts
We welcome all the participants to theSPICE Topology Matters workshop. It brings togetherthe top scientists in the fields of spintronics, superconductivity, topological insulators, and multiferroics in order to explore their connections via topology.
This will also be the first workshop of SPICE where the majority of the typical gender balance has been inverted!!
It promises to be an exciting workshop!
11.07.2017 – Network-Meeting SPP2137 Skyrmionics
SPICE welcomes today the network meeting of the new SPP program on Skyrmions. The meeting is organised by Karin Everschor-Sitte and Christian Pfleiderer.
06.06.2017 – SPICE Spin Dynamics in the Dirac Systems workshop starts
We welcome the participants of the SPICE Spin Dynamics in the Dirac Systems workshop .
The workshop offer a platform for the knowledge exchange between diverse novel condensed matter domains such as topological insulators and superconductors, Weyl physics, topological Josephson junctions, spintronics in graphene, spin valves, spin-logic devices, quantum magnetism, spin lattices, frustrated magnets, spin liquids, non-trivial spin states, etc.
We wish you all a very productive meeting!
30.05.2017 – SPICE Non-equilibrium Quantum Matter workshop starts
We welcome the participants of the SPICE Non-equilibrium Quantum Matter workshop that starts today.
The workshop brings together leading experts – both theorists and experimentalists – working in the broad field and focuses on the most exciting recent developments in non-equilibrium many-body physics.
We wish you all a very productive workshop!
17.03. 2017 – Meet us at the DPG Spring Meeting 2017!
You can find us in Dresden from March 19-24, where we present our work at the DPG Spring Meeting of the Condensed Matter Section.
Consult the conference program for more details.
20.12.2016 – INSPIRE Group & Kläui Lab opened new Communication Zone
Yesterday, after three months of planning and construction, Jairo Sinova and Mathias Kläui opened the new Communication Zone. The shared communication space will be open for all members of the INSPIRE-Group, SPICE, the Kläui-Lab and their guests. The ComZone allows both groups to meet, discuss and work together on projects in a nice and modern working environment.
At the inauguration both group leaders were looking forward to even more interchange between the groups: "Whether you're just having a discussion over a cup of coffee, or a large scientific meeting, the new ComZone will be the perfect place for you. We like to thank the institute of physics for making this possible, as well as everybody who was involved in this project."
Hard Condensed Matter Theory Seminar / SPICE-Spin+X Seminar
Upcoming seminars
Online SPICE-SPIN+X Seminars
Dear colleagues, in a time of physical distancing, it is more important than ever to continue disseminating science. Please join us on a weekly on-line seminar on spintronics and related areas of research.
This summer, the INSPIRE group (within SPICE) has organised the seminar on-line in a SPICE-SPIN+X partnership.
WS 2019/20
SS 2019
| Date | Place | Speaker | Title of Presentation | Host |
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| 2019.09.24 | Lorentz Room 05-127 (Staudingerweg 7) | Nikolai Sinitsyn | Integrable Time-Dependent Quantum Hamiltonians | Jairo Sinova |
| 2019.07.05 | Media Room 03-431 (Staudingerweg 7) | Xiong-Jun Liu | Emergent topology and symmetry-breaking order in correlated quench spin dynamics | Jairo Sinova |
| 2019.07.02 | Ran Cheng | Antiferromagnetic Magnons - A tale of two spins | ||
| 2019.06.04 | MAINZ Seminarraum, 03-122 (Staudinger Weg 9) | Dr. Herbert Jaeger | An introduction to Reservoir Computing | Mathias Kläui, Emergent AI Center |
| 2019.05.28 | Calum Ross | Magnetic skyrmions at critical coupling | Ben McKeever, Karin Everschor-Sitte | |
| 2019.05.21 | Börge Göbel | Going beyond skyrmions | Karin Everschor-Sitte | |
| 2019.05.07 | MAINZ Seminarraum, 03-122 (Staudinger Weg 9) | Prof. Alberta Bonanni | At the interface between nitride compounds and quantum materials | Jairo Sinova |
| 2019.04.30 | Dr. Nicholas Sedlmayr | The Superconductivity of Topologically Protected Surface States | Jairo Sinova |
WS 2018/19
| Date | Place | Speaker | Title of presentation | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019.03.26 | Timo Pulch | Specialisation talk: Inverting magnetic logical circuits | Karin Everschor-Sitte | |
| 2019.03.19 | Bennet Karreta | Modelling of the magnetic states and phase transitions in hematite | Olena Gomonay | |
| 2019.02.19 | Ricardo Zarzuela | Spin transport in frustrated magnets | Jairo Sinova | |
| 2019.02.12. | Patrick M. Buhl | Topological transport in non-Abelian spin textures from first principles | Bertrand Dupé | |
| 2019.02.05. | Nils Sommer | Influence of chiral interactions on domain wall creation by electric current | Karin Everschor-Sitte | |
| 2019.01.08. | Anna Pertsova | Transient excitonic instability in optically-driven Dirac materials | Jairo Sinova | |
| 2019.01.01. | Christmas Holidays | |||
| 2018.12.25. | Christmas Holidays | |||
| 2018.12.11. | Maxime Garnier | Many Majorana zero modes around the deformable edge of a magnetic skyrmion | Jonas Nothhelfer | |
| 2018.11.26 (Monday) | Lorentz Room 05-127 (Staudingerweg 7) | Assa Auerbach | Equilibrium Formulae for Transverse Magneto-transport of Strongly Correlated Metals | Jairo Sinova |
| 2018.11.22 (Thursday) | Media room 03-431 (Staudingerweg 7) | Jonas Nothhelfer | Knowledge of methods talk for Master | Matteo Rizzi and Karin Everschor-Sitte |
| 2018.11.20. | Tobias Meng | Weyl semimetals with single Weyl nodes, and the fate of their chiral anomaly | Karin Everschor-Sitte | |
| 2018.11.13 | Inti Sodemann | The Berry curvature dipole and the shear sound of metals | Karin Everschor-Sitte | |
| 2018.11.06 | Markus Drescher | The Theory of Inelastic Tunneling Spectroscopy in Superconductors | Bertrand Dupé | |
| 2018.10.30 | Imke Schneider | Impurities and disorder in one-dimensional quantum systems | Karin Everschor-Sitte | |
| 2018.10.23 | INSPIRE & TWIST | organisational group meeting | Jairo Sinova, Karin Everschor-Sitte |
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| 2018.10.16 | Warlley Campos | Semi-Transparent Particles in Optical Tweezers: Topological Insulators, Semiconductors and Generalization of the Ashkin’s Mode | Davi Rodrigues | |
| 2018.10.09 | Ilja Müller | "Influence of Morphology and Energetic Disorder on Electron Mobility in PSSS Polymers" | Erik McNellis | |
| 2018.10.04 (Thursday) | Lorentz Room 05-127 (Staudingerweg 7) | George Bourianoff | Overview of Artificial Intelligence accelerator technologies and markets: Implications for future research funding | Karin Everschor-Sitte |
SS 2018
| Date | Place | Speaker | Title of presentation | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018.07.12 (Thursday) | Galilei room, 01-128 | Vincent Baltz | Probing antiferromagnets with currents | Olena Gomonay |
| 2018.07.11 (Wednesday) | Galilei room, 01-128 | Hongbin Zhang | High throughput design of magnetic materials | Jairo Sinova |
| 2018.07.10, at 11:00 | Galilei room, 01-128 | Jonas Nothhelfer | Specialization talk for Master: Magnetic Skyrmion materials as a platform for quantum information theory | Matteo Rizzi and Karin Everschor-Sitte |
| 2018.07.03 | Galilei room, 01-128 | Laura Köhler | Topological domain walls and dislocations in helimagnets | Karin Everschor-Sitte |
| 2018.06.26 | Galilei room, 01-128 | Michail Titov | Dzyaloshinskii-Moria interaction in Rashba systems | Olena Gomonay |
| 2018.06.19 | Galilei room, 01-128 | Ilja Müller | Master thesis talk: Method seminar "Theoretical Approach of Electron Transport in Organic Semiconductors by the example of Organic Molecule PSSS" | Erik R. McNellis |
| 2018.06.05 | Galilei room, 01-128 | Paschalis Gkoupidenis | Neuromorphic devices using organic materials | Karin Everschor-Sitte |
| 2018.05.15 | Galilei room, 01-128 | Lykourgos Bougas | Ultrasensitive chiral sensing in the gas, liquid, and solid state by signal-reversing cavity polarimetry: applications to atmospheric studies and biosensing | Erik R. McNellis |
| 2018.05.01 | HOLIDAY | |||
| 2018.04.17 | Galilei room, 01-128 | Wojtek Morawiec | Master thesis talk: Method seminar "Density Functional Theory within the FLAPW approximation" | Bertrand Dupé |
| 2018.04.10 | Lorentz-Raum, 05-127 | Alexander Mook | Topological Magnon Materials and Transverse Magnon Transport | Jairo SInova |
WS 2017/18
| Date | Place | Speaker | Title of presentation | Host |
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| 2018.03.06 | Galilei room, 01-128 | Kyoung-Whan Kim | Chiral renormalization of magnetization dynamics through self-feedback | Karin Everschor-Sitte |
| 2018.02.27 | Galilei room, 01-128 | Rafael Gonzalez-Hernandez | Computational modeling of 2D materials beyond graphene | Jairo Sinova |
| 2018.02.13. | SEMESTER BREAK | |||
| 2018.01.30. | Galilei room, 01-128 | Babak Seradjeh | Universal fluctuations of Floquet topological invariants at low frequencies | Jairo Sinova |
| 2018.01.23. | Galilei room, 01-128 | Prof. Igor Lukyanchuk | Topological excitations in nano-scale ferroelectrics | Olena Gomonay |
| 2018.01.22. | Media room, 03-431, at 13:00 | Prof. André Thiaville | Skyrmions in symmetric bilayers. Presentation | Olena Gomonay |
| 2018.01.09. | Galilei room, 01-128 | Wojciech Morawiec | Master thesis talk: Specialization seminar | Bertrand Dupé |
| 2017.12.05. | Galilei room, 01-128 | Bernd Zimmermann | Spin-orbit effects from ab-initio theory: from electron scattering to chiral spin textures | Bertrand Dupé |
| 2017.11. 22 | Galilei room, 01-128 | Eric Bousquet | Magnetoelectric response from first-principles: microscopic understanding and design rules | Bertrand Dupé |
| 2017.11.07 | Galilei room, 01-128 | Oliver Breunig | Gigantic negative magnetoresistance in a disordered Topological Insulator | Karin Everschor-Sitte |
| 2017.10.24 | Galilei room, 01-128 | Davi Rodrigues | Effective description of topological magnetic textures Presentation Video | Karin Everschor-Sitte |
| 2017.10.17 | Galilei room, 01-128 | Roman Kováčik | Spin disorder effect on the electronic and transport properties in magnetic materials from first principles | Bertrand Dupé |
SS 2017
WS 2016/17
SS 2016
| Date | Location | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| 02.08.2016 | Media room, 03-431 | Dmytro Bozhko | Bottleneck accumulation of hybrid bosons in a ferrimagnet |
| 26.07.2016 | Media room, 03-431 | Shufeng Zhang | Angular momentum transport in magnetic structures |
| 06.07.2016 | Gernott-Gräff room, 05-431 | Martin Stier | Current-induced Skyrmion creation and Skyrmion fission |
| 06.07.2016 | Gernott-Gräff room, 05-431 | Mikhail Raikh | Slow dynamics of spin pairs in random hyperfine field and organic magneto-resistance |
| 08.06.2016 | Media room, 03-431 | Sarah Schroeter | Skyrmion caloritronics |
| 07.06.2016 | Media room, 03-431 | Hans Werner Schumacher | Single electron pumps: from primary current standards to single spin on demandPresentation |
| 02.06.2016 | Media room, 03-431 | Mikhail Titov | Spin-orbit and spin-tranfer torques in two dimensions Presentation |
| 11.05.2016 | Office, 01-327 | Mark Stiles | Spin current: the torque wrench of spintronics |
WS 2015/16
| Date | Location | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| 27.10.2015 | Galilei room | Ulrich Rößler | Finding skyrmions in magnetic materials |
| 26.01.2016 | Galilei room | Roberto Raimondi | Spin current swapping and spin Hall effect in a 2DEG Presentation |
| 28.01.2016 | Media room, 03-431 | Kyoung-Whan Kim | Spin transport related to spin-orbit coupling Presentation |
| 28.01.2016 | Media room, 03-431 | Cosimo Gorini | Thermoelectric conversion in disordered nanowires Presentation |
| 16.02.2016 | Galilei room | Peter Kopietz | Rayleigh-Jeans condensation of pumped magnons in thin film ferromagnets |
SS 2015
| Date | Location | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21.07.2015 | Galilei room | Joo-Von Kim | Magnetization dynamics in chiral spin textures: Spin wave channelling and skyrmion oscillations |
| 14.07.2015 | Galilei room | Manuel Brando | Metallic Quantum Ferromagnets |
| 07.07.2015 | Galilei room | Ewelina Hankiewicz | Transport in hybrid structures of topological insulators and in topological superconductors: In the Search of Majorana Fermions |
| 16.06.2015 | Galilei room | Markus Garst | Magnon-skyrmion scattering in chiral magnets |
| 02.06.2015 | Galilei room | Casper Drukier | Non-analytic corrections in Fermi liquids and multi-channel scattering |
| 12.05.2015 | Galilei room | Amaury Melo Souza | Transport properties in single-molecule junctions: master equations and model Hamiltonians. |
| 31.03.2015 | Lorentz room 05-127 | Yuri Mokrousov | Topologocial Spintronics: an ab-initio perspective |
WS 2014/15
| Date | Location | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12.02.2015 | MITP seminar room | Thierry Valet | tba |
| 11.02.2015, 10:00 | Gernot Graeff room, 05-431 | Binghai Yan | Quantum Anomalous Hall Effects on the Novel Honeycomb Material Stanene |
| 06.02.2015, 10:30 | Galilei room | Amnon Aharony | Spin filtering: how to write and read quantum information on mobile qubits |
| 06.02.2015, 09:00 | Galilei room | Sebastian Müller | Bachelor colloquium: spin accumulation and diffusion in magnetic multilayers |
| 05.02.2015, 11:00 | Media room | Ora Entin-Wohlman | Thermoelectricity in nano-junctions |
| 21.01.2015, 10:15 | 01-327 | Diana Prychynenko | Strongly correlated Chern insulators |
| 25.11.2014 | Galilei room | Yuta Yamane | Effective forces in ferromagnets -spinmotive force, anomalous Hall effect, and domain wall resistance- |
| 11.11.2014 | Galilei room | Vitalii Dugaev | Edge scattering of electrons in graphene |
| 21.10.2014 | Galilei room | Helen Gomonay (Kiew) | Spintronics with antiferromagnets: spinning of spin |
SS 2014
| Date | Location | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| 27.05.2014 | Seminar room K | Matteo Rizzi (Mainz) | Optimal persistent currents for interacting bosons on a ring with gauge field |
| 28.05.2014 | Lorentz room | Dmitry Budker (Mainz/Berkeley) | The perfect (NV) defect: making sens(or) of diamond |
| 17.06.2014 | Seminar room K | Hans Christian Schneider (Kaiserslautern) | Demagnetization dynamics and spin dependent lifetimes in ferromagnets |
| 01.07.2014 | Seminar room K | Ronny Thomale (Würzburg) | Entanglement spectrum of Fractional Quantum Hall states and Quantum spin chains |
| 02.07.2014 | Media room | Elio König (KIT Karlsruhe) | Disordered surfaces of 3D topological insulators: interactions and/or strong magnetic field |
| 09.07.2014 | Seminar room K | Charles Gould (Würzburg) | Transport investigations on a magnetic topological insulator - a work in progress |
| 25.07.2014 | Seminar room K | Björn Sbierski (Berlin) | Disordered Weyl Semimetals |
| 29.07.2014 | Seminar room K | Alex Levchenko (Michigan) | Kinetics of 1d electrons beyond the Luttinger liquid paradigm |
04.07.2016 – INSPIRE Group Workshop in Sörgenloch
On July 4th and 5th the INSPIRE group had an internal group workshop in the picturesque village of Sörgenloch close to Mainz. In the nice atmosphere of Schloss Sörgenloch the INSPIRE group focused on team building processes and internal working strategies. The group also used the occasion to welcome Ulrike Ritzmann, as well as Bertrand Dupé and Marie Böttcher, who will join the group in October 2016. After a very successful first day, the group enjoyed the food and a variety of local wines served on the Schloss Sörgenloch terrace in the evening. On the second day of the workshop the group worked on presentation techniques and communication skills under the guidance of two coaches from an improvisational theater. We thank the participants for two beautiful and very successful days in Sörgenloch.
17.06.2016 – SPICE Young Research Leaders Group Workshop: New Paradigms in Dirac-Weyl Nanoelectronics

With the impending end of traditional Si based electronics due to Moore's law limitations, the need for novel approaches to next generation device design is not only apparent, but has become a popular interdisciplinary research topic. From research in fabrication engineering and device architectural design to devices based on intrinsically different physics, there is ample room for research from physics, chemistry, and engineering perspectives. From June 13th to 17th, the SPICE Young Research Leaders Workshop was held to approach the problem from a primarily materials perspective aiming to use external stimuli such as classical gating, ionic liquid gating, optical excitation, magnetic field control, strain, etc. to cause large physical property changes in Dirac and Weyl materials due to their unique, sensitive and modifyable Fermi surfaces. Together with co-organizer Jairo Sinova, the organizers Mazhar Ali and Binghai Yan brought together 22 young experts in theoretical and experimental physics, solid state chemistry, and electrical engineering in a multi-disciplinary collaborative effort to quickly bring the exciting new physics of Dirac and Weyl materials to practical application. Through the foundations laid in this workshop, we hope to spark a new field of electronics, discover new materials, new properties, new physics, and possibly create devices based on changing between fundamental states of matter.
For videos of the talks and further information, visit the workshop home page.


