Program – Young Research Leaders Group Workshop: Magnetism in van der Waals materials: current challenges and future directions

Tuesday, July 8th

Session Topic Chair: Samuel Mañas-Valero

09:00 – 09:15 Registration
09:15 – 09:30 Opening Remarks
09:30 – 09:55 Dahlia KLEIN, WIS
Imaging the Sub-Moiré Potential Landscape using an Atomic Single Electron Transistor
10:00 – 10:25 Julien BARRIER, ICFO
Non-linear transport in graphene-based superlattices
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:25 Mauro BROTONS-GISBERT, HWU
The interplay of field-tunable strongly correlated states in a multi-orbital moiré system
11:30 – 11:55 Josep INGLA-AYNES, MIT
Spin-polarized quantum point contacts for efficient spin injection in graphene
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break

Session Topic Chair: Talieh Ghiasi

13:00 – 13:25 Sophie WEBER, Chalmers
Leveraging the intrinsic electric fields at surfaces for spintronics applications
13:30 – 13:55 Aravind DEVARAKONDA, Columbia University
Lattice and Superlattice Design of Correlated 2D Phases
14:00 – 14:30 Coffee Break
14:30 – 14:55 Dmytro AFANASIEV, Radboud University
Controlling complex antiferromagnets with orbital excitations
15:00 – 15:25 Hamoon HEDAYAT, University of Cologne
Light-Induced Metastable Disordered Spins in the Kitaev Candidate α-RuCl₃
18:00 Dinner at Restaurant WASEM
Edelgasse 15, 55218 Ingelheim am Rhein

Wednesday, July 9th

Session Topic Chair: Samuel Mañas-Valero

09:00 – 09:25 Benjamin HUDDART, University of Oxford
Quantum spin liquids in van der Waals materials
09:30 – 09:55 David A. BROADWAY, RMIT University
Imaging magnetism in low dimensional materials
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 – 10:55 Märta TSCHUDIN, University of Basel
Engineering antiferromagnetic domains in an atomically thin 2D magnet
11:00 – 11:25 Carla BOIX-CONSTANT, University of Valencia
A twist on 2D spintronics: orthogonally twisted CrSBr
11:30 – 13:00 Lunch Break

Session Topic Chair: Talieh Ghiasi

13:00 – 13:25 Marc VILA TUSELL, LBNL
Coupled Crystal Field, Spin and Orbital Physics in Altermagnets
13:30 – 13:55 Makars ŠIŠKINS, NUS
Phase transitions and mechanical degrees of freedom in 2D magnets
14:00 – 14:30 Coffee Break
14:30 – 14:55 Andrej PUSTOGOW, TU Wien
Strain Tuning of Correlated Electrons: Stress Reduces Frustration
15:00 – 15:25 Berit HANSEN GOODGE, MPI CPfS
Advanced scanning transmission electron microscopy for atomic-scale insights to van der Waals magnets
18:00 Dinner at Restaurant WASEM
Edelgasse 15, 55218 Ingelheim am Rhein

Thursday, July 10th

Session Topic Chair: Samuel Mañas-Valero

09:00 – 09:25 Giovanni ZAMBORLINI, University of Graz
Photoemission Electron Microscopy: a tool for accessing electronic structure, spin texture and ultrafast dynamics of the interface
09:30 – 09:55 Iolanda DI BERNARDO, UAM
Observation of charge density wave excitonic order parameter in topological insulator monolayer WTe2
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 – 10:55 Yunqiu Kelly LUO, USC
Spin-orbit torque in magnetic heterostructures: van der Waals exchange bias and ultrasensitive Sagnac magneto-optic interferometry
11:00 – 11:25 Bing ZHAO, Chalmers University
Coexisting non-trivial van der Waals magnetic orders enable field-free spin-orbit torque magnetization dynamics
11:30 – 13:00 Lunch Break

Session Topic Chair: Talieh Ghiasi

13:00 – 13:25 Edoardo BALDINI, University of Texas
Giant chiral magnetoelectric oscillations in a van der Waals multiferroic
13:30 – 13:55 Nathan WILSON, TU Munich
Antiferromagnetism and the excitonic layer-spin pseudospin in CrSBr
14:00 – 14:30 Coffee Break
14:30 – 14:55 Open discussion on current challenges, future directions, and possible collaborations
15:00 – 15:15 Closing Remarks