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This week, we are very pleased to host Dr. Bernd Zimmernann from the group of Prof. Yuriy Mokrousov from Forschungszentrum Jülich. He will teach us about spin-orbit effects from ab-initio theory.

We welcome Eric Bousquet from the Abinit team who will be giving the seminar today. We look forward to future collaborations with his team.

We welcome today Dr. Oliver Breunig from the Institute of Physics II at the University of Cologne, hosted by TWIST. He will give a talk on “Gigantic Negative Magnetoresistance in a Disordered Topological Insulator”.

Details: “Recently the phenomenon of negative magnetoresistance (MR) is attracting renewed interest due to its occurrence in Weyl semimetals because of the chiral anomaly. In other systems a large MR typically relates to magnetism. In this talk a novel mechanism leading to a large negative MR will be presented that is based not on magnetism, but on disorder. In the newly synthesized bulkinsulating topological insulator material T1BixSb1-xTe2 we find a suppression of the resistivity by up to 98 % in 14 T at low temperature. From transport data and numerical simulations, this gigantic negative MR is understood by a percolation of charge puddles formed in the disordered bulk.”

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The TWIST and INSPIRE guest Davi R. Rodrigues from the Department of Physics & Astronomy, Texas A&M University gives a talk on “Effective Description of Topological Magnetic Textures”.

We welcome today's seminar speaker, Roman Kovakick, from Jülich, who will be discussing Spin disorder and transport in magnetic materials from an abi-initio perspective.

For more details see the abstract here.