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muSR studies of expanded fullerides close to the Mott transition
Fulleride superconductivity is experiencing a renaissance of interest following our recent discovery of superconductivity proximate to an antiferromagnetic Mott insulating state... -
Temperature Dependence Study of the Local Magnetic Behaviour in Fe3C-Filled N...
Recent research in to Carbon Nanotubes filled with magnetic materials has produced some interesting results that have the potential to bring about new computing technology. In... -
Magnetic order in the low doping regime in La(2-x)SrxCoO4
While investigating the ordering and magnetic dynamics in La2-xSrxCoO4 we found some intriguing behaviour for samples with small x, which would imply that the phase diagram is... -
Continuation of the low-frequency fluctuations muSR study in Mn-doped La1-yYy...
The aim of the experiment is to study, in low magnetic fields, the very slow spin fluctuation (MHz range) present in the normal phase of La0.8Y0.2LaFe1-xMnxAsO0.89F0.11... -
Multistage symmetry breaking of the breathing pyrochlore compounds LiGaCr4O8 ...
At the heart of understanding collective phenomena in condensed matter physics is the search for emergent phases of matter formed by strong frustrations in geometrically... -
Local magnetism in graphene / transition metal oxide nanocomposites
Properties of graphene that make it an important material are its exceptionally high conductivity, massless fermions and a high velocity of electrons near the Dirac points.... -
Motion of Positively Charged Muonium Centres in Rutile and Anatase Titanium D...
We propose a detailed study of the motional dynamics of Mu and the low temperature Mu0-like states in anatase and rutile Titanium Dioxide (TiO2). An initial study on only rutile... -
Effect of doping and disorder on the skyrmion phase dynamics in Zn-doped Cu2O...
Skyrmions are topologically protected, nano-sized objects which have been shown to exist in the spin textures of a range of magnetic materials. As we have recently demonstrated... -
Investigating the magnetic ground states in complex manganese based oxides
The geometric frustration, combined with other parameters like the net quantum spin state (1/2, 1 or 3/2) is expected to give rise the exotic magnetic ground states such as the... -
Search for spin liquid ground state in the disorder free triangular lattice K...
Rare-earth delafossites were recently proposed as promising candidates for the realization of an effective S = 1/2 quantum spin liquid on the triangular lattice [1, 2]. In... -
muSR study on non-centrosymmetric Ce-based heavy fermion superconductors: CeT...
Recently a handful of non-centrosymmetric Ce-based HF compounds with general formula CeTX3 (T=transition mental and X=Si or Ge) have been reported to exhibit superconductivity... -
µSR study of the frustrated hyper-honeycomb magnet beta-Li2IrO3
In the present proposal, we would like to investigate beta-Li2IrO3, a 5d based hyper-honeycomb system, where strong Kitaev-type anisotropy of magnetic couplings triggers a... -
Search for spin freezing and magnetic order in a frustrated cluster magnet
LiZn2Mo3O8 is a highly unusual geometrically frustrated material: the magnetic moments are associated not with single ions but with small transition-metal clusters. The spin is... -
Stacking dependence and spin-Peierls state in layered, triangular cluster mag...
Materials containing triangular structures of magnetic moment are an important pathway to studying unconventional magnetic phenomena that arise from the geometrical frustration.... -
Magnetic ground states in correlated alkali-metal triphenylides
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons have emerged as an exciting class of materials with the report of superconductivity in alkali doped picene with Tc=18 K. However, due to poor... -
Controlling superconductivity in layered lithium iron selenide hydroxides
Lithiation can be used to control the superconductivity in layered lithium iron selenide hydroxides, transferring iron from one layer (the lithium hydroxide layer) to the active... -
Unconventional slow spin fluctuations in Ba122 iron-based superconductors
The iron-based superconductors are at the forefront of the research on unconventional superconductivity. The Barium-122 systems, doped with electrons, reveal a non-trivial... -
Quasi two-dimensional molecular layers separated by magnetic and non-magnetic...
One goal of our research into the nanoengineering of molecular magnets is a detailed understanding of the relationship between the structure and composition of a system and its... -
Probing the spin dynamics in Griffiths phase and spin glass-like phase of La0...
LaCoO3 and A-site Sr doped LaCoO3 have been an intense research area in recent days due to their complex magnetic phase diagram and another additional degree of freedom,... -
Using muons to examine lithium diffusion behaviour in olivine nanoparticles
The constant global demand on energy resources, coupled to a diminishing supply of fossil fuels, has pushed Li-ion battery cathode development to the research forefront....