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Anisotropy of the fluxline latticeof the unconventional non-centrosymmetric s...
Recently, superconductivity has been discovered in a number of materials whose lattices lack inversion symmetry, with importantimplications for the symmetry of the... -
A SANS study of the flux line lattice in the superconducting phase ofnoncentr...
We wish to carry out a small angle neutron scattering experiment on the noncentrosymmetric superconductor Nb0.18Re0.82 (Tc ~8.8 K). Single crystals of this material have been... -
Jamming, glassy dynamics and critical slowing down for the metastableVL phase...
Recently vortex lattice (VL) metastabilty was observed in MgB2. In this material the hexagonal ground state VL rotates continuously as function of field and temperature, between... -
Vortex lattice study of highly ordered underdoped YBa(2)Cu(3)O(6+x)(x=0.5, 0.7)
We propose to perform small-angle neutron scattering investigations of the vortex lattice (VL) in underdoped, twinfree, and highly CuO-chain ordered samples of the High-Tc... -
Spiral spin-liquid in highly frustrated diamond lattice antiferromagnet MnSc2S4
We propose to investigate in detail the short- and long-range quais-elastic and elastic magnetic correlations in single crystalline sample of MnSc2S4 spinel. This willverify the... -
Pinning-free behaviour of the FluxLine Lattice in fully-oxygenated YBCO7
We have previously made observations of the very high-field, high-temperature behaviour of flux lines in an YBCO sample, obtaining results that were nearly ideal. However, the... -
Studies of the Vortex Lattice in Sr 2RuO4 with H || a
Sr2RuO4 is an unconventional superconductor. While this is generally believed to have triplet pairing, this conclusion have recently been questioned [K. Machida and M. Ichioka,... -
Flux line lattice explorations of a stripe-ordered cuprate
The relationship between stripe order and superconductivity is a hotly debated topic. Here we propose preliminary explorations of the vortex state in the cuprate superconductor... -
Magnetization relaxation in magnetically and sterically anisotropic nanocompo...
We propose static and stroboscopic polarized SANS measurements on magnetically and sterically anisotropic Janus nanoparticles. The aim of the experiment is to investigate the... -
Morphology of the Flux-Line Lattice in Nb at High Pressures
The objective of this proposed experiment is to study the pressure dependence of the flux-line lattice(FLL) in the superconducting state of Nb. A diamond anvil cell will be used... -
Principal interactions in helical system MnFeGe
A continuous interest to the B20-type cubic helimagnets doesn't calm down, because of its intriguing properties (quantum phase transition, topology of magnetic phase, critical... -
Magnetic ground state of the dopedfrustrated spin ladder compound CuBi1.95Zn0...
BiCu2PO6 is a model quantum S=1/2 spin ladder with frustrated competing antiferromagnetic exchange interactions, nonmagnetic singlet ground state and incommensurate magnetic... -
Selection of multiferroic monodomains in Mn2GeO4
Mn2GeO4 has recently emerged as a rare example of a magnetically-driven multiferroic (MF) material that exhibits spontaneous ferromagnetic and ferroelectric orders. Current... -
Jamming in the vortex lattice of MgB2
The vortex lattice (VL) in the two-band superconductor MgB2 shows a large degree of metastabilty. Here the hexagonal VL rotates continuously as function of field and... -
De-pinning of the Bragg glass vortex phase in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8
We wish to continue our detailed measurements of the perfection of the vortex Bragg-glass phase in the high temperature superconductor Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8 and distinguish this from... -
Interfacial Effects on [SrMnO3]/[LaMnO3] multilayers
We propose a polarized neutron reflectometry study on [(SrMnO3)j/(LaMnO3)k]N. These multilayers are grown epitaxially on SrTiO3 (STO) (100) single crystals by an oxide-assisted... -
Short-range magnetic correlations in geometrically frustrated CePdAl
Geometrically frustrated CePdAl orders antiferromagnetically below 2.7 K in an incommensurate structure. Doping Ni on the Pd site lowers in Ce(Pd,Ni)Al the ordering temperature... -
Spin and charge correlations in the unconventional spin glass Y2Mo2O7
One of the more remarkable aspects of geometrically frustrated magnets is the emergence of spin glass states in the absence of significant amounts of chemical disorder.... -
Characterization of the magnetic correlations in Gd3Ga5O12
Gd3Ga5O12 is a geometrically frustrated compound and is one of the few compounds that does not order down to the lowest temperatures measured, 25 mK, despite antiferromagnetic... -
Test of temperature induced staticstripes rotation in LSCO at the underdoped ...
It is well known that as LSCO cuprate superconductors transition from insulating to superconducting behavior, as a function of hole concentration (or Strontium doping), the...