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PhD Scholarship Opportunity

Spectroscopy of magnetic materials for rare-earth dopant-based quantum technologies

We have a PhD scholarship that requires a student who can start in early 2026. The project is a collaboration with our colleagues at University of Otago and involves optical spectroscopy and modelling of rare-earth ions in magnetic materials. In addition to experimental and modelling work at Canterbury, there would be opportunities for research visits to University of Otago and overseas.

For details see: Link.


University of Canterbury Profile Pages

• Official Home Page.
• Publications on Google Scholar.

Preprints/Reprints

• Theory of Rare-Earth Electronic Structure and Spectroscopy.
  Review published in: Bunzli JCG; Pecharsky VK (Ed.), Handbook on the Physics and Chemistry of Rare Earths, Vol 50, 47-64, 2016. Amsterdam: North Holland. DOI
• My arxiv.org preprints.

Tutorials on Electronic Structure Calculations

For "Electronic Structure and Transistion Intensities in Rare-Earth Materials", the Handout provides extensive background and exercises, and the Presentation Slides give an overview.

• Electronic Structure and Transistion Intensities in Rare-Earth Materials. Handout --- updated October 2019.
• Electronic Structure and Transistion Intensities in Rare-Earth Materials. Presentation slides --- updated September 2019).

For "Making Sense of Rare-Earth Electronic Structure - A Tutorial", I currently only have Presentation Slides.
There is some overlap between the two tutorials, but this one emphasises the fundamentals of tensor operators and the use of magnetic splitting data as an aid to the determination of crystal-field parameters.

• Making Sense of Rare-Earth Electronic Structure - A Tutorial. Presentation Slides --- updated June 2023).
• Making Sense of Rare-Earth Electronic Structure - A Tutorial. Presentation Slides --- Chongqing, November 2024 --- NEW.

Crystal Field Handbook Resources

Crystal Field Handboook, by Doug Newman and Betty Ng Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Crystal Field Handbook Resource Page

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Contact details

Prof. Michael F. Reid
School of Physical and Chemical Sciences, Te Kura Matū
University of Canterbury
Christchurch
New Zealand Phone: + 64 3 3694252
Email: Mike.Reid@canterbury.ac.nz


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Last modified: September 2022