2018 CAP Congress / Congrès de l'ACP 2018

Session

M-PLEN1 - Plenary Session (S. Nagler) | Session plénière (S. Nagler)

M-PLEN1

11 Jun 2018, 09:15

McCain Ondaatji Hall (Dalhousie University)

Conveners

M-PLEN1 - Plenary Session (S. Nagler) | Session plénière (S. Nagler)

• Graeme Luke (McMaster University)

2306. Pulsed neutrons, fractional excitations, and quantum spin liquids

Dr Stephen Nagler (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

11/06/2018, 09:15

Herzberg Public, Plenary, and Medal Talks / Conférenciers des sessions Herzberg, plénières et médaillés (CAP-ACP)

Plenary Speaker / Conférencier(ère) plénier(ère)

Sixty years ago, Canadian Physicist Bertram Brockhouse pioneered inelastic neutron scattering. His invention, the triple axis spectrometer, enabled direct measurements of phonons, magnons, and other collective elementary excitations in materials. In more recent times the practice of inelastic neutron scattering has been revolutionized by pulsed neutron time-of-flight spectroscopy, enabled in...