Spin Ice and Magnets with Bond Dependent Interactions

Presentations

• Disorder-induced proximate quantum spin ice phase in Pr₂Sn₂O₇

  Invited-In-person · Invited

  March 18, 2026, 3:30 PM – March 18, 2026, 4:06 PM

  Publication: Luo, Yi, et al. "Disorder-induced proximate quantum spin ice phase in Pr2Sn2O7." arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.19248 (2025). Submitted to Phys. Rev. X.

  Presenters

  • Yi Luo

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  Authors

  • Yi Luo

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  • Joseph Paddison

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  • Brenden Ortiz

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  • Miles Knudtson

  • Stephen Wilson

    • University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Jue Liu

  • Benjamin Frandsen

    • Brigham Young University

  • Si Athena Chen

  • Matthias Frontzek

  • Andrey Podlesnyak

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  • Adam Aczel

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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• Quantum Spin Ice in magnetic field: Experimentally Tunable QED, Kasteleyn transition and flux liquid

  Oral-In-person · Withdrawn

  March 18, 2026, 4:06 PM – March 18, 2026, 4:18 PM

  Publication: arXiv:2312.11641, new work in preparation

  Presenters

  • Alaric Sanders

    • Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin

  Authors

  • Alaric Sanders

    • Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin

  • Claudio Castelnovo

    • Univ of Cambridge

  • Han Yan

    • University of Tokyo

  • Andriy Nevidomskyy

    • Rice University

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• Tuning and interfacing emergent QED in quantum spin ice

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 4:18 PM – March 18, 2026, 4:30 PM

  Presenters

  • Claudio Castelnovo

    • Univ of Cambridge

  Authors

  • Claudio Castelnovo

    • Univ of Cambridge

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• Field-tuned transition of a U(1) quantum spin ice in Ce₂Zr₂O₇ - emergent photon suppression and spinon reorganization

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 4:30 PM – March 18, 2026, 4:42 PM

  Publication: Nat. Phys. 15, 1052–1057 (2019)
  Nat. Phys. 21, 1203–1210 (2025)
  B. Gao, et al. manuscript in preparation

  Presenters

  • Bin Gao

    • Rice University

  Authors

  • Bin Gao

    • Rice University

  • Zhengbang Zhou

    • University of Toronto

  • Tingjun Zhang

    • Rice University

  • Andrey Podlesnyak

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  • Sang-Wook Cheong

    • Rutgers University

  • Yong-Baek Kim

    • University of Toronto

  • Pengcheng Dai

    • Rice University

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• Hearing the light: stray field noise from the emergent photon in quantum spin ice

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 4:42 PM – March 18, 2026, 4:54 PM

  Presenters

  • Gautam Naik

    • Boston University

  Authors

  • Gautam Naik

    • Boston University

  • Jonathan Hallén

    • Harvard University

  • Nishan Jayarama

  • Roderich Moessner

    • Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems

  • Christopher Laumann

    • Boston University

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• Quantum Fisher Information as a Thermal and Dynamical Probe in Frustrated Magnets: insights from Quantum Spin Ice

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 4:54 PM – March 18, 2026, 5:06 PM

  Publication: https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.14813

  Presenters

  • Zhengbang Zhou

    • University of Toronto

  Authors

  • Zhengbang Zhou

    • University of Toronto

  • Chengkang Zhou

    • The University of Hong Kong

  • Félix Desrochers

    • University of Toronto

  • Yong-Baek Kim

    • University of Toronto

  • Zi Yang Meng

    • The University of Hong Kong

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• Next-nearest-neighbor frustration and bond-dependent exchange in low-dimensional quantum magnets

  Invited-In-person · Invited

  March 18, 2026, 5:06 PM – March 18, 2026, 5:42 PM

  Publication: P. Park et al., arXiv:2507.19412

  Presenters

  • Pyeongjae Park

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  Authors

  • Pyeongjae Park

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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• Dipolar-octupolar pyrochlore spin systems in magnetic field

  Oral-In-person · Withdrawn

  March 18, 2026, 5:42 PM – March 18, 2026, 5:54 PM

  Presenters

  • Han Yan

    • University of Tokyo

  Authors

  • Han Yan

    • University of Tokyo

  • Alaric Sanders

    • Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin

  • Claudio Castelnovo

    • Univ of Cambridge

  • Andriy Nevidomskyy

    • Rice University

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• Anisotropic quantum magnetism in the Pr⁴⁺ oxide Sr₂PrO₄

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 5:54 PM – March 18, 2026, 6:06 PM

  Presenters

  • Rasmus Tang Christiansen

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  Authors

  • Rasmus Tang Christiansen

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Abhijit Adak

  • Daniel Pajerowski

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  • Athena Chen

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  • Joseph Paddison

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  • Kurt Kummer

  • Rachel Nickel

  • Henry La Pierre

  • Martin Mourigal

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

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• Suppresssion of thermal conductivity by magnetic singlets in TmFeO₃ and implications for quantum magnetism

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 6:06 PM – March 18, 2026, 6:18 PM

  Publication: M. L. McLanahan, D. Lederman and A. P. Ramirez, "Suppression of Thermal Conductivity via Singlet-Dominated Scattering in TmFeO3, submitted.

  Presenters

  • Arthur Ramirez

    • University of California, Santa Cruz

  Authors

  • Arthur Ramirez

    • University of California, Santa Cruz

  • Maverick McLanahan

    • University of California, Santa Cruz

  • David Lederman

    • University of California, Santa Cruz

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• Structure-driven prediction of magnetic order in uranium compounds

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 6:18 PM – March 18, 2026, 6:30 PM

  Publication: C. Broyles, W. Charles, and S. Ran. Structure-driven prediction of magnetic order in uranium compounds. Physical Review Materials. 8, 114405. (2024)

  Presenters

  • Christopher Broyles

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  Authors

  • Christopher Broyles

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • William Charles

    • Washington University, St. Louis

  • Sheng Ran

    • Washington University, St. Louis

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