Domain imaging and control in unconventional magnets

SPICE Workshop on Altermagnetism: Emerging Opportunities in a New Magnetic Phase, May 9th - 11th 2023

Andrew Mackenzie

I will describe an instrument that is under construction in our department that will enable the imaging of a number of optical response functions in magnets and correlated electron systems.  The design philosophy is for a moving-sample, fixed-optics setup, to maximise the flexibility.  Spatial resolution will be of order microns, over a temperature range of approximately 15 - 330 K, and the instrument includes a uniaxial pressure cell with which the samples of interest can be tuned.