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Phonon dispersion and defects in pyrochlores
Pyrochlores exhibit a rich variety of exotic physical properties including fractionalization, topological order and emergent magnetic monopoles in the classical spin ices, and a... -
Weyl Points in the Magnetic Excitations of Er2Ti2O7
In the condensed matter community the last ten years have seen a revolution in our understanding of how topology influences the properties of solids. A famous example from the... -
2D vs. 3D ordering in CrCl3, a Heisenberg antiferromagnet on a honeycomb lattice
Van der Waals solids containing two-dimensional lattices of magnetic moments with only weak interlayer coupling have attracted significant scientific interest due to their... -
Spin excitations in the paramagnetic phase of a charge-ordered bilayered mang...
In a previous experiment we measured the spin wave spectrum of the half-doped bilayer manganite Pr(Ca,Sr)2Mn2O7 in its spin, charge and orbital ordered phase. The data, which... -
Magnetic excitations in novel ferrimagnetic spinel ScMn2O4
Spinel oxides with the formula AB2O4, are an important structural family of materials which exhibit a large variety of interesting and industrially relevant properties. We have... -
Unconventional superconductivity in quasi-1D K_2Cr_3As_3
Metallic systems with one-dimensional chain-like atomic structure can support unusual mechanisms for electron pairing leading to superconductivity. K_2Cr_3As_3 is one of a... -
Magnetic interactions of the room-temperature skyrmion material Co8Zn8Mn4
We propose an investigation of the spin-waves in the recently discovered room-temperature skyrmion material Co8Zn8Mn4. The ground state of Co8Zn8Mn4 is a very long wavelength... -
Exploration of possible spin-charge ordered phases in La2-xBaxCoO4 (x=1/3 and...
This is a proposal to measure the magnetic spectrum of single crystal La2-xBaxCoO4 for the first time. The isostructural layered cobaltates with Sr and Ca instead of Ba have... -
The single ion crystal field ground state of Yb3+ in Yb2Ir2O7
The rare earth iridates, R2Ir2O7 have been intensely studied in recent years due to the unique behaviour of the magnetism on the iridium sites; a consequence of competition... -
Effect of oxygen vacancies on the phonon dispersion of pyrochlores
The frustrated magnetism of pyrochlores makes them candidates for applications in magnetic cooling and scientific instrumentation, and the proposal that they can be used to... -
Dirac Point and Topological Triplon Bands in the Shastry-Sutherland Material ...
SrCu$_2$(BO$_3$)$_2$ (SCBO) is a very much studied quantum magnet that is most well known for its ground state of coupled singlets and multiple magnetization plateaux. Recently,... -
The superconducting properties of a spin-3/2 superconductor
In all known superconductors, the supercurrent is carried by Cooper pairs which consist of spin-1/2 quasiparticles in either spin-singlet (the usual case) or spin-triplet (the... -
Unconventional superconductivity in quasi-1D K_2Cr_3As_3
Metallic systems with one-dimensional chain-like atomic structure can support unusual mechanisms for electron pairing leading to superconductivity. K_2Cr_3As_3 is one of a... -
Single crystal study of a-RuCl3, a quantum magnet on a honeycomb lattice
a-RuCl3 is a honeycomb lattice system which is thought to be close to a spin liquid state. The layers are weakly coupled and therefore the system is susceptible to stacking... -
Magnetic order in two pyrochlore iridates
Iridium oxides are of interest because many novel magnetic phases have been predicted in crystals, depending on the geometry of the crystal lattice. Our proposal concerns two... -
Intrinsic defect structures in zinc oxide
Zinc oxide is an important semiconductor material used in a wide range of industrial applications, many of which require both n-type and p-type components. It can easily be... -
Search for monopoles in spin ice via the exterior field distribution
Bramwell et al. have provided an elegant demonstration of dynamics in magnetic monopoles in spin ice measured by muons implanted inside the sample. However, it is likely that... -
Characterising the Holmium contribution to excitations in Holmium Iron Garnet
Rare-earth Iron garnets (R3Fe5O12) have been in the focus of active research for the last five decades due to properties such as magnetostriction, magneto-optical effects, as... -
Crystal structure of a new hexagonal layered cobaltate LaBaCoO4+y
We have synthesized a new cobalte oxide compound. We know from preliminary measurements that its crystal structure is hexagonal, and that the magnetic behaviour is intriguing.... -
Magnetic structure of EuZrO3
There are four parts to this experiment: (i) first we aim to study the magnetic ordering of the new compound Dy2Ge2O7 in comparison to the canonical spin ice Dy2Ti2O7 using ZF...
