ECRYS meetings provide cross-links between various studies of spontaneous structures formed by electrons in solids, with extensions to related systems such as vortices in superconductors, ferroelectric and magnetic domains, mixed and spin-polarized states in superconductors, cold ions, charged objects in soft matter and biology. Unifying concepts and phenomena emphasize a complex of nonlinear nonstationary spacio-temporal effects, role of topological defects and microscopic solitons.
The notion of electronic crystals embraces numerous cases of spontaneous structural aggregation of electrons in solids. Depending on interactions, lattice deformations, spin involvement, and dimensionality, the electronic crystals acquire forms of charge and spin density waves, of interface and bulk Wigner crystals, charge ordered phases, stripes, modulations induced by high magnetic fields, interface and surface phases originated by high electric fields, charges in meso- and nanostructures, charged liquid suspensions, Coulomb interactions in soft and condensed matter.
Planning of sections:
Charge order in electronic systems Charge density waves Spin density waves and stripes Pair density waves in superconductors Axionic charge density waves and Weyl-Dirac semimetals. Antiferromagnetism and Mott insulator Excitonic insulator Electronic ferroelectricity Coulomb crystals from cold ions to the spin ice Superconductivity versus charge orderings and charge density waves Local and nano-scale effects, STM Commutation of states by optical quench Hetero-structures and electrostatic doping