Workshop on Antiferromagnetic Spintronics

September 26th-30th 2016

The emerging field of antiferromagnetic spintronics focuses on making antiferromagnets active elements of spintronic devices. From an application point of view, it emphasizes how to read, manipulate, and store information in these systems robustly. From the basic science point of view, it exploits the larger range of spin physics in this material due to the higher complexity of the ordered phase and order parameters.

New connections with the current ferromagnetic spintronics research have created entirely new ways of rethinking spin phenomena in antiferromagnets, while still building on long standing pioneering works in antiferromagnetic materials.

Although some prevailing concepts map directly between these fields, in many important instances the intuition built in the ferromagnetic spintronics systems can lead us astray in the antiferromagnetic systems.

The recent successes in this new area and rapid theoretical developments make this the right time for a conference on the subject.

FORMAT: In order to bring up to speed many young and established researchers on this subject, the first 1 1/2 days will be in a school format with tutorials that will emphasize the similarities and differences between ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic spintonics. It will be followed by the workshop that will cover the latest developments in the field.

Scientific Organizers
Helen Gomonay (JGU, Mainz, Germany)
Tomas Jungwirth (ASCR, Prague, Czech Republic)
Jairo Sinova (JGU, Mainz, Germany)

Invited Speakers

(*) unconfirmed