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DTSTART:20170126T150000Z
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URL:http://physics.bu.edu/internal/events/show/1701
SUMMARY:New quantum phases of matter in strongly correlated and spin-orbit-
	coupled metals
DESCRIPTION:Featuring John Harter\, California Institute of Technology\n\nP
	art of the Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar Series.\n\nStrong interactio
	ns between electrons are known to drive metallic systems toward a variety o
	f well-known symmetry-broken phases\, including superconducting\, electroni
	c liquid crystalline\, and charge- and spin-density wave ordered states. In
	 contrast\, the electronic instabilities of correlated metals with strong s
	pin-orbit coupling have only recently begun to be explored. In this talk\, 
	I will discuss a new class of parity-breaking Fermi liquid instabilities en
	abled by spin-orbit coupling. These instabilities are distinguished by the 
	spontaneous development of a lattice-locked spin texture on the Fermi surfa
	ce\, generalizing the notion of itinerant ferromagnetism. I will argue that
	 nonlinear optical spectroscopy is an ideal experimental tool to search for
	 these phases in quantum materials\, and I will discuss our recent experime
	ntal discovery of one such phase--multipolar electronic nematic order--in a
	 strongly spin-orbit-coupled metallic pyrochlore.
LOCATION:SCI 352\, 590 Commonwealth Avenue\, 02215
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