Focus Session: MAG.THY III: Oxides and Phase Transitions

Presentations

• Antiferromagnetic Heisenberg Spin Layers coupled with Dipolar Interaction -- a Monte Carlo study of Rb$_{2}$MnF$_{4}$

  ORAL

  March 15, 2006, 8:00 AM – March 15, 2006, 8:12 AM

  Authors

  • C.G. Zhou

    • ORNL

  • Thomas C. Schulthess

    • Computer Science and Mathematics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, P.O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6164

  • David P. Landau

    • Center for Simulational Physics, University of Georgia, Athens GA, 30602

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• RVB liquid phase of a quantum dimer model with competing kinetic terms

  ORAL

  March 15, 2006, 8:12 AM – March 15, 2006, 8:24 AM

  Authors

  • Francois Vernay

    • University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

  • Arnaud Ralko

    • ITP, Ecole Polytechnique F\'ed\'erale de Lausanne, Switzerland
    • ITP - Ecole polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland

  • Federico Becca

    • SISSA, Trieste, Italy

  • Frederic Mila

    • ITP - Ecole polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland

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• Dynamical correlations of the Quantum Dimer Model on the triangular lattice

  ORAL

  March 15, 2006, 8:24 AM – March 15, 2006, 8:36 AM

  Authors

  • Arnaud Ralko

    • ITP, Ecole Polytechnique F\'ed\'erale de Lausanne, Switzerland
    • ITP - Ecole polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland

  • Michel Ferrero

  • Federico Becca

    • INFM-Democritos, SISSA, Trieste, Italy

  • Dmitri Ivanov

  • Fr\'ed\'eric Mila

    • ITP, Ecole Polytechnique F\'ed\'erale de Lausanne, Switzerland

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• Towards material-specific simulations of high-temperature superconducting cuprates

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 15, 2006, 8:36 AM – March 15, 2006, 9:12 AM

  Authors

  • T.C. Schulthess

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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• Mechanism of Noncollinearity and Magnetoelectric Coupling in Incommensurate Multiferroics

  ORAL

  March 15, 2006, 9:12 AM – March 15, 2006, 9:24 AM

  Authors

  • Ivan Sergienko

  • Elbio Dagotto

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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• Numerical Study of Magnetism in the Periodic Anderson Model

  ORAL

  March 15, 2006, 9:24 AM – March 15, 2006, 9:36 AM

  Authors

  • Yong-Qiang Wang

  • Hai-Qing Lin

    • Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
    • Institute of Theoretical Physics and Physics Department, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
    • Department of Physics, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong
    • Institute of Theoretical Physics and Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
    • Chinese University of Hong Kong
    • Department of Physics and Institute of Theoretical Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

  • James Gubernatis

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA

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• Bond-diluted Heisenberg spin systems on coupled ladders

  ORAL

  March 15, 2006, 9:36 AM – March 15, 2006, 9:48 AM

  Authors

  • Daoxin Yao

  • Anders W. Sandvik

  • Antonio H. Casto Neto

    • Department of Physics, Boston University, 590 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215, USA
    • Boston University
    • Department of Physics, Boston University
    • Department of Physics, Boston University, 590 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA

  • David K. Campbell

    • Boston University
    • Department of Physics, Boston University, MA 02215

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• Thin Ising films with both competing surface fields and a magnetic field gradient: A Monte Carlo study

  ORAL

  March 15, 2006, 9:48 AM – March 15, 2006, 10:00 AM

  Authors

  • Lijun Pang

  • D.P. Landau

    • Center for Simulational Physics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA30602

  • K. Binder

    • Institute of Physics, University of Mainz, Germany

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• Electronic structure and excitation spectra of transition metal monoxides investigated via orbital-dependent functionals

  ORAL

  March 15, 2006, 10:00 AM – March 15, 2006, 10:12 AM

  Authors

  • J. Ashley Alford

  • Oscar D. Restrepo

    • (University of Tennessee and CMSD, ORNL (2))

  • Adolfo G. Eguiluz

    • University of Tennessee and CMSD,ORNL (2)
    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory/Univ. of Tennessee

  • T.C. Schulthess

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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• Ab initio calculations on the frustrated magnet ZnCr$_2$O$_4$

  ORAL

  March 15, 2006, 10:12 AM – March 15, 2006, 10:24 AM

  Authors

  • Kevin T. Chan

  • Jay D. Sau

  • Marvin L. Cohen

    • UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Peihong Zhang

    • University at Buffalo

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• Anisotropic magnetic phases

  ORAL

  March 15, 2006, 10:24 AM – March 15, 2006, 10:36 AM

  Authors

  • Julio F. Fernandez

    • ICMA, CSIC, Zaragoza, Spain

  • Juan J. Alonso

    • Universidad de Malaga, Spain

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• Alternative methods to characterize phase transitions in Ising systems

  ORAL

  March 15, 2006, 10:36 AM – March 15, 2006, 10:48 AM

  Authors

  • Eugenio E. Vogel

  • Bernardo Fierro

  • Fernando Bachmann

    • Universidad de La Frontera, Temuco, Chile

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