Ferronics vs. Magnonics

Abstract:

Ferromagnets and ferroelectrics are phases of condensed matter in which magnetic and electric dipoles align spontaneously below a Curie temperature. “Magnons” (“ferrons”) are the elementary excitations of the magnetic (electric) order that carry spin (electric) polarization, momentum, and energy. I will introduce the basic physics of “magnonics” and “ferronics” concerned with the transport by those quasiparticles and present selected recent results.

Bio:

Prof. Gerrit E.W. Bauer worked as a professor in Delft University of Technology from 1992 to 2022, and he joined the University of Groningen from 2017 to 2022. Right now, he is a professor in Tohoku University and Univ. of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was recognized as Clarivate “Highly Cited Researcher” and China State High-End Project Foreign Expert in 2018. In 2022, he was recognized as the Fellow of the Japan Society of Applied Physics. In 2023, he received the Humboldt Research Award of the AvH-Foundation. The research areas of  Prof. Gerrit E.W. Bauer include theoretical condensed matter theory in nanomagnetism, spintronics, and ferroelectricity.