APS March Meeting 2026, Day 2
Douglas Natelson (noreply@blogger.com)
Today was again a bit random, as I had talks for both one of my students and me, and meetings with folks. Some highlights:
- Edoardo Baldini gave a very nice talk about exotic phases and collective excitations in van der Waals magnets. This included using second harmonic generation microscopy and polarimetry to look at the evolution of magnetic phases in NiPS3 as a function of thickness, ending up at the monolayer which acts like a 2D XY magnet. In the paper, they see clear evidence of a BKT...