Young Research Leaders Group Workshop: Recent advances in non-equilibrium and magnetic phenomena

Workshop, July 25th - 27th 2023

In nature, all the most interesting phenomena are non-equilibrium processes, whether it be star explosions, hurricanes or electrons flowing in metals. In recent decades, the invention of new theoretical tools combined with considerable gains in computational power have enabled physicists to investigate and understand increasingly sophisticated non-equilibrium systems.
Magnetic systems provide an excellent playground for investigating non-equilibrium phenomena. Spins couple effectively to temperature gradients, oscillating magnetic fields, charge and heat currents, or laser pulses. This gives rise to phenomena like magnon BEC, the ultrafast switching of magnetic domains, novel types of phase transitions, or rapidly moving magnetic skyrmions and domain walls.
At the same time, the language of quantum magnetism can also be used to describe completely different kinds of systems, for example ultracold atoms in cavities or the qubits of quantum computers. These systems provide new ideas and challenges to the field of non-equilibrium magnetism, e.g., on the role of dissipation, measurement and entanglement.
By bringing together young researchers from both magnetism and more broad non-equilibrium topics with theoretical and experimental backgrounds we hope to learn about each others’ areas of expertise and build future collaborations to advance these fields. Science benefits from diversity, open communication, and different perspectives, and special care has been taken to make this event inclusive and gender-balanced.

This workshop is organized by SPICE as part of the Gutenberg International Conference Center (GICC) at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU). The GICC is funded through the German Research Foundation’s (DFG) university allowance in the Excellence Strategy program and aims at fostering JGU as a national and international research hub. By organizing regular conferences and workshops in fields of excellent JGU research, the GICC provides a platform to build interest networks and collaborations – to promote exchange and dialog among academics and research groups from all over the world.

Best Talk Awards

Congratulations to Lukas Körber, Lise-Marie Kern and Phatthamon Kongkhambut on winning 1st, 2nd and 3rd prize respectively in the best talk awards!

 

Organizers

Maria Azhar, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Alla Bezvershenko, University of Cologne
Nina del Ser, University of Cologne

Invited Speakers

Aisha Aqeel, Technical University of Munich Michael Buchhold, University of Cologne Vir Bulchandani, Princeton University Atasi Chakraborty, JGU Oksana Chelpanova, JGU Alberto de la Torre, Brown University Louise Desplat, University of Liège Dennis Hardt, University of Cologne Lisa-Marie Kern, Max Born Institute Berlin Kai Klocke, UC Berkeley Svitlana Kondovych, IFW Dresden Phattamon Kongkhambut, University of Hamburg

Lukas Körber, Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden Rossendorf Denis Mettus, Technical University of Munich Robin Msiska, University of Duisburg Sara Murciano, California Institute of Technology Jasnamol Palakkal, University of Goettingen Shahram Panahiyan, MPSD Pablo Sala, California Institute of Technology Michael Sonner, University of Geneva Federica Maria Surace, California Institute of Technology Victor Ukleev, Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin