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Jožef Stafan Institute

https://ijs.si

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Quantum Materials Group

Laboratory for EPR

Laboratory for NMR

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Laboratory for Measurements at Large-Scale User Facilities

https://quantum.ijs.si

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STFC RAL

https://www.isis.stfc.ac.uk

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Muon Spectroscopy

http://cmms.triumf.ca

TRIUMF

ISIS-RAL

PSI

J-PARC

MuSIC

RAON

CSNC

SNS

planned (3)

in operation (5)

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Muon Spectroscopy

https://toutestquantique.fr

MuSR INSTRUMENT, RAL

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Neutron Scattering

neutrons

(1 cm-1 = 1.4 K = 0.12 meV)

R. Pynn, Neutron scattering – A Primer, Los Alamos Science, Summer 1990

neutrons

Diffraction

Spectroscopy

magnetic moment

no electric charge

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Neutron Scattering

https://toutestquantique.fr

LET INSTRUMENT, RAL

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Ab initio (DFT) Simulations of Matter

Maribor

122,000 CPU cores

384 TB memory

10.1 petaflops

Harwell Campus, VB

23,064 CPU cores

171 TB memory

~0.8 petaflops

Density functional theory (DFT). Nobel prize in 1998

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Y3Cu9(OH)19Cl8�(distorted kagome antiferromagnet)

YCu3(OH)6Cl3�(“perfect” kagome antiferromagnet)

 

T. Arh, M. Gomilšek et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 027203 (2020).�W. Sun, T. Arh, M. Gomilšek et al., Phys. Rev. Materials 5, 064401 (2021).

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Ab initio (DFT) Simulations of Matter

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Y3Cu9(OH)19Cl8�(distorted kagome antiferromagnet)

YCu3(OH)6Cl3�(“perfect” kagome antiferromagnet)

 

Ab initio (DFT) Simulations of Matter

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Y3Cu9(OH)19Cl8�(distorted kagome antiferromagnet)

YCu3(OH)6Cl3�(“perfect” kagome antiferromagnet)

 

Ab initio (DFT) Simulations of Matter

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Cu[(pyz)(gly)](ClO4)�(Bose–Einstein condensation of magnons)

Li4CuTeO6�(quantum spin liquid)

J. Khatua, M. Gomilšek et al., Commun. Phys. 5, 1 (2022).

 

 

Ab initio (DFT) Simulations of Matter

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GaV4Se8�(materials with topological skyrmions)

K. J. A. Franke et al., Phys. Rev. B 98, 054428 (2018).

Ab initio (DFT) Simulations of Matter

T. Lancaster et al., New J. Phys. 20, 103002 (2018).

(Hpip)2CuBr4�(quantum spin chain)

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