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Commission on Magnetic Structures

The Commission on Magnetic Structures (CMS) operates a dedicated website at magcryst.org.

CMS was established ad interim by the Executive Committee in January 2011 and confirmed at the Madrid General Assembly in August 2011.  It’s primary purpose is to facilitate research on the discovery and communication of magnetic structures in magnetically ordered materials; and its present focus is to cultivate a community consisting of interested participants from diverse fields of research, who can establish standards for defining and communicating the crystallographic details of magnetic structures.  The scope of the Commission’s consideration encompasses a broad range of magnetic structure types, including commensurate magnetic structures, modulated and otherwise aperiodic magnetic structures, low-dimensional magnetic structures, disordered magnetic structures, etc.