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Anomalous magnetism in oxygen-deficient scandium-doped spin ice
Our previous diffuse neutron scattering experiment on SXD showed that oxygen vacancies are the dominant defects in spin ice. The substitution of tetravalent titanium by... -
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... -
Intrinsic defect structures in zinc oxide
Zinc oxide is an important semiconductor, but its use in a wide range of applications is limited by the difficulty in doping p-type. This is believed to be related to the nature... -
Muon level-crossing resonances as a probe for studying antiferromagnets at pu...
We propose a set of measurements using the HiFi spectrometer in which muon level-crossing resonances are used to probe the internal field inside antiferromagnets in which the... -
Systematic Investigation of Magnetically Doped Toplogical Insulators
Topological insulators (TIs) are of inherent interest as they are conducting on the surface whilst insulating on the bulk. We would like to investigate magnetically doped... -
Oxygen-deficient quantum spin ice
In quantum analogues of the spin ice materials quantum mechanical tunneling between ground states is expected, and exotic emergent behaviour has been predicted including a Higgs... -
Magnetic excitations in a candidate magnetic XY analogue of graphene
This proposal is part of our research programme to explore the experimental manifestation of topological properties of magnetic excitations. The honeycomb ferromagnet is... -
Magnetic interactions in 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... -
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... -
Magnetism in the inverse spinel ScMn2O4
The inverse spinel ScMn2O4 contains a mixture of Mn2+ and Mn3+ ions and shows probable ferrimagnetic order below 58 K. This proposal aims to investigate this magnetic transition... -
Varying oxygen content in the quantum spin ice Tb2Ti2O7
Tb2Ti2O7 is one of two compounds identified as potential quantum spin ices. As with other oxide pyrochlores the properties depend sensitively on the oxygen stoichiometry. Most... -
Phonons and disorder in Yb2Ti2O7
The pyrochlores provide an excellent model system for studying the interaction of framework vibrational modes, defects and magnetism. We propose to investigate these couplings... -
Anomalous magnetism in oxygen-deficient scandium-doped spin ice
Our previous diffuse neutron scattering experiment on SXD showed that oxygen vacancies are the dominant defects in spin ice. The substitution of tetravalent titanium by... -
Phonons and disorder in Yb2Ti2O7
The pyrochlores provide an excellent model system for studying the interaction of framework vibrational modes, defects and magnetism. We propose to investigate these couplings... -
Spin-Lattice Coupling in spin ice Tb2Ti2O7
The rare earth titanates pyrochlores R2Ti2O7 are a topic of intense research focus owing to their perfect realisation of classical dipolar spin ice physics and the monopole... -
Unconventional superconductivity in quasi-1D K_2Cr_3As_3 (QLCR)
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... -
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,... -
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... -
Investigation of magnon dynamics of rare-earth garnet Ho3Fe5O12
Rare-earth Iron garnets (RE3Fe5O12) have been in the focus of active research for the last five decades due to their fascinating properties, such as large magnetostriction,... -
Defect structure of the stuffed pyrochlore Yb2+xTi2-xO7-x/2
The magnetic ground states of geometrically frustrated pyrochlores are highly sensitive to the presence of defects. The stuffing of rare-earth ions on titanium sites has...
