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    • SARAh – Magnetic symmetry calculations and magnetic structure analysis
      • SARAh Installation Instructions
      • SARAh – Introduction and ‘how to’ videos
      • SARAh with GSAS
      • SARAh with FullProf
    • VaList – Bond Valence Calculations and Listing
    • k search – finding the propagation vector with SARAh
    • Downloads
  • Web software- NEW Apps!
    • SARAh – web Representational Analysis
    • SARAh – web Refine – FullProf
    • SARAh – Simple couplings using Kronecker powers (alpha version)
    • SARAh – Invariant Polynomial Analysis (alpha version)
    • SARAh – Kovalev’s tables (IRs of simple group, IRs of double group, ICRs of antiunitary group)
    • Crystallographic point groups – subgroups
  • Video lectures
    • 1. Introduction to representational analysis
    • 2. Linking representation theory to Landau, order parameters, and stationary vector groups
    • 3. Web SARAh introduction (a website walkthrough)
    • 4. Using web SARAh Refine with FullProf (a walk through)
  • Papers/Documents- NEW paper!
    • 1956. Notes on group theory by G.F. Koster
    • 2000. A new protocol for the determination of magnetic structures using simulated annealing and representational analysis (SARAh)
    • 2001. Magnetic structures and their determination using group theory
    • 2009 Brillouin Zone Indexing – k search
    • 2011. Exploring basis vectors and the different types of magnetic structure
    • 2017. Historical introduction to magnetic structures – Pt 1.
      Early quantum theory, neutron powder diffraction
      and the coloured space groups
    • 2019. A walk through of the maths behind Bertaut’s method of representational analysis of magnetic structures
    • 2025. SARAh— webRepresentational Analysis
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Author: wills

andrew.wills is a chemist who ponders a lot about cool things in quantum magnetism. He often doesn't understand and scratches his head a lot. He also tries to make things better. Fermat-E is his latest epic.

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andrew.wills is a chemist who ponders a lot about cool things in quantum magnetism. He often doesn't understand and scratches his head a lot. He also tries to make things better. Fermat-E is his latest epic.

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News

  • Dec 2024. Draft paper introducing webSARAh is available. Error in polynomial invariant calculations fixed. 1st December 2024
  • June 2024. Video lectures released – look in the new tab ! 23rd June 2024
  • May 2024 Updates- tables of coreps, IRs of double groups, couplings using Kronecker power. 13th May 2024
  • Nov 2023 ICANS XXIV presentation – Refining magnetic structures using representational theory and SARAh – learning from simplicity and Serendipity 1st November 2023
  • Oct 2023 – SARAh webRefine for FullProf bug fix 24th October 2023

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