First USC Theory-Experiment Collaborative Meeting (7-8 September 2017, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)
Location: R80, CR16
Programme (Link to abstracts)
Day 1: Thursday 7 September, 2017
10:00-10:30 | Arrival and coffee |
General theories | |
10:30-11:00 | “Order parameters for unconventional superconductors’’ – James F. Annett, University of Bristol |
11:00-11:15 | Discussion |
11:15-11:35 | “Symmetry of pairing in nonsymmorphic superconductors” – Sudeep Kumar Ghosh, University of Kent |
11:35-11:45 | Discussion |
11:45-12:05 | “Relativistic spin-polarized BdG-KKR theory for noncentrosymmetric materials” – Gabor Csire, University of Bristol |
12:05-12:15 | Discussion |
12:15-13:30 | Lunch |
Specific materials (theory and experiment) I | |
13:30-14:00 | “LaNiC2 and LaNiGa2 – the story so far” – Jorge Quintanilla, Kent |
14:00-14:15 | Discussion |
14:15-14:35 | “Mean field theory of fully-gapped triplet superconductors” – Philip Whittlesea, University of Kent |
14:35-14:45 | Discussion |
14:45-15:05 | “Unconventional superconductivity in the noncentrosymmetric superconductors Re6Zr and La7Ir3” – Daniel Mayoh, University of Warwick |
15:05-15:15 | Discussion |
15:15-15:45 | Coffee |
Wide open | |
15:45-16:15 | “Some interesting materials” – Adrian Hillier, RAL |
16:15-16:30 | Discussion |
16:30-17:30 | Free time |
17:30-… | Transport to restaurant and dinner |
Day 2: Friday 8 September, 2017
9:00-9:30 | Coffee |
Specific materials (theory and experiment) II | |
9:30-10:00 | “Theory for Extremely Small Spontaneous Magnetic Field in Chiral Superconductor Sr2RuO4 Measured by muSR” – Kazumasa Miyake, Osaka University, Center for Advanced High Magnetic Field Science, Toyonaka, Japan |
10:00-10:15 | Discussion |
10:15-10:35 | “Modern Theory for the Orbital Magnetisation in a Superconductor” – Joshua Robbins, University of Bristol |
10:35-10:45 | Discussion |
10:45-11:05 | “Evidence of nodal gap structure in the basal plane of the FeSe superconductor” – Pabitra Biswas, RAL |
11:05-11:15 | Discussion |
11:15-12:15 | General discussion (science) |
12:15-13:30 | Lunch |
13:30-14:15 | General discussion (science) |
14:15-15:15 | Tour of ISIS (SKG, GC, PW) Discussions (planning) |
15:15-15:45 | Coffee |
15:45-16:45 | Discussions (wrapping up) |
16:45-17:00 | Departure |