News
15.08.2021 Sinova Group mourns Uday Chopra
20.05.2021 Bennet Karetta successfully defended his Master thesis
07.04.2021 The EMA 2021 Young Scientist Award goes to Libor Šmejkal
We are very proud to announce that the Young Scientist Award from the European Magnetism Association goes to Libor, "for ground-breaking theoretical predictions of novel spin-splitting mechanisms and antiferromagnetic Hall effect in collinear antiferromagnets, which have ignited the emergent field of topological antiferromagnetic spintronics"
Libor has been in the Mainz INSPIRE team since 2015, where he is now a Research Team Leader. From 2015-2020 he was a PhD student, enrolled in Charles University Czech Republic from which he graduated in 2020. Libor has been a vital part of the INSPIRE group, both intellectually and as a team leader.
12.03.2021 Libor Šmejkal wins second place at Werner von Siemens Award
We congratulate Libor Šmejkal who has won the second place in the “Best Dissertation Thesis” category in
this year’s Werner von Siemens Award. Libor won the award for the thesis entitled “Topology band theory of relativistic spintronics in antiferromagnets”.
We are proud to have Libor as a valuable team member, colleague and a team leader at INSPIRE.
18.11.2020 Rodrigo Jaescke joins the INSPIRE group
We are very pleased to welcome Rodrigo Jaescke to the INSPIRE group. He joins the group as a PhD student. We are looking forward to a successful collaboration.
Contact information:
Rodrigo Jaeschke
Email: rjaeschk@students.uni-mainz.de
11.11.2020 Nayra Alvarez joins the INSPIRE group
We are very pleased to welcome Nayra Alvarez to the INSPIRE group. She joins the group as a PhD student. We are looking forward to a successful collaboration.
Contact information:
Nayra Alvarz
Email: alvarezp@students.uni-mainz.de
13.10.2020 Gizem Özcan joins the INSPIRE group
We are very pleased to welcome Gizem Özcan to the INSPIRE group. She joins the group as a PhD student. We are looking forward to a successful collaboration.
Contact information:
Gizem Özcan
Email: gioezcan@students.uni-mainz.de
05.06.2020 New PhD positions in SPIN+X and ElastoQmat projects
Open positions for PhD, Master and Bachelor theses and Postdoctoral positions at the Institute of Physics, Solid State Physics:
PhD Positions in Computational Topological Spintronics (SFB SPIN+X)
PhD Position in Topological Strongly Correlated Magnetic Systems (SFB ElastoQmat), Project A09
PhD Position in Topological Strongly Correlated Magnetic Systems (SFB ElastoQmat), Project B05
Our group works on the area of spintronics and nano-electronics. We work as well on other aspects of solid state theory, with a view towards multi-disciplinary approaches. Our group is very dynamic and we try to create an environment with diverse characters and expertise in order to attain a much more powerful approach to the physical challenges that we try to solve.
04.06.2020 New Science Advance publication on the prediction of the Crystal Hall effect.
Libor Smejkal has predicted a new type of phenomena in the family of spontaneous Hall effects connected to a new type of exchange splitting that depends on the momentum of the electron quasiparticle.
Abstract: Electrons, commonly moving along the applied electric field, acquire in certain magnets a dissipationless transverse velocity. This spontaneous Hall effect, found more than a century ago, has been understood in terms of the time-reversal symmetry breaking by the internal spin structure of a ferromagnetic, noncolinear antiferromagnetic, or skyrmionic form. Here, we identify previously overlooked robust Hall effect mechanism arising from collinear antiferromagnetism combined with nonmagnetic atoms at noncentrosymmetric positions. We predict a large magnitude of this crystal Hall effect in a room temperature collinear antiferromagnet RuO2 and catalog, based on symmetry rules, extensive families of material candidates. We show that the crystal Hall effect is accompanied by the possibility to control its sign by the crystal chirality. We illustrate that accounting for the full magnetization density distribution instead of the simplified spin structure sheds new light on symmetry breaking phenomena in magnets and opens an alternative avenue toward low-dissipation nanoelectronics.
01.06.2020 – CRC TRR288 Elastoqmat funded by the DFG
The DFG has funded the CRC TRR288 ELASTO-Q-MAT initiative. It involves the JGU (Sinova co-speaker), Goethe University Frankfurt (Roser Valenti as coordinator and speaker), the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Joerg Schmalian co-speaker), and the Max Plank Institutes in Mainz and Dresden. This initiative has the goal to understand, advance, and exploit new physical phenomena emerging from a particularly strong coupling between a material's elasticity and its electronic quantum phases. To this end, we will study the effects of elastic tuning and elastic response of various types of electronic order in representative classes of quantum materials that share a high sensitivity to intrinsic strain or externally applied stress fields
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