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22 de agosto de 2018
16h30
Sala 18 (Cristalografia)

Rajesh Narayanan
Department of Physics Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Índia

Emergent Random Fields in Frustrated Magnets

A host of examples in modern condensed matter has low temperature ground states that breaks not only symmetries such as spin or phase or gauge symmetries but also real space lattice symmetries. Salient examples are the stripe phase in superconductors or the Ising nematic state in pnictides. In this talk we investigate the effect of quenched disorder on
such ground states which break real space symmetry. By means of utilizing a simple generalisation of the Ising model we show that disorder (uncorrelated) is inimical to such real space broken ground states, leading to its destruction via an emergent random field mechanism. We further show that the strength of the random field can be tuned to zero via building anticorrelations in the distribution of impurity atoms. This thus protects the ground states with broken translational symmetry.