NOTE unusual time and location.
Western University
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY
2012 Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP) LECTURE TOUR
Date: THURSDAY, 22nd March 2012
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Location: Biological & Geological Sciences Room 0153
Dr. Jan Kycia
Department of Physics & Astronomy
University of Waterloo
“Magnetic Monopoles in Spin Ice”
ABSTRACT
It has recently been found that magnetic monopoles may exist at low temperatures (temperature less than 1 Kelvin) in an unusual type of magnetic material—spin Ice. Spin ice in itself is interesting since the magnetic moments behave in a somewhat similar way to the ions in water ice. At low temperatures, it is proposed that defects in the spin orientation can be seen as magnetic monopoles. In this talk I will introduce the physics connected with this spin ice and monopoles and describe experiments, including those done in my lab, on this system.
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