BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:iCalendar-Ruby BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations DESCRIPTION:The Physics & Astronomy Colloquium Series presents Cristian Bat ista of University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Lab. on “Magnetic To pological Solitons and Real Space Berry Curvature” on Friday\, Nov. 6\, at 4:10 p.m. at an Online Departmental Colloquium.\n\nJoin on your computer or mobile appClick here to join the meetingOr call in (audio only)+1 614-706- 6572\,\,620424174# United States\, Columbus Phone Conference ID: 620 424 174#Abstract: Inspired by the work Herman Hemholtz\, William Thompson propo sed in 1867 that atoms could be vortices in aether. While later experiments put this proposal out of business\, thinking of topological solitons as em erging building blocks or artificial atoms is very appealing. Indeed\, more recent developments\, that started around the 1960's\, have demonstrated t hat nature has plenty of room for finding updated versions of aether. The a ether of quantum magnets is the vector field of magnetic moments\, whose to pological solitons can be regarded as emergent mesoscale atoms. Like real a toms\, these solitons form periodic arrays or crystals whose organizing pri nciples are dictated by symmetry\, anisotropy and competing microscopic int eractions. Moreover\, these magnetic textures generate an effective compact U(1) gauge field\, minimally coupled to the conduction electrons\, that ca n reach astronomical values.\n\nWe will see that the emergent magnetic fiel d is related to a geometric property known as real space Berry curvature\, whose general (covariant) form must be modified in the presence of relativi stic spin-orbit coupling. DTEND:20201106T221000Z DTSTAMP:20241124T035529Z DTSTART:20201106T211000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Physics Colloquium | Condensed Matter\, Berry Phase UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_34476589824317 URL:https://calendar.ohio.edu/event/physiphysics_colloquium_condensed_matte r_berry_phase END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR