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Probing the superconducting ground state of the Heusler superconductors
This proposal plans to investigate the superconducting ground state of the Heusler superconductors with a superconducting transition of ~2K. Heusler compounds have attracted a... -
Magnetic properties of yttrium diluted Ho2-xYxTi2O7 spin ice.
Pure Ho2Ti2O7 and Dy2Ti2O7 exhibit spin ice behaviour. The recent discovery of monopoles and "magnetricity" in Dy2Ti2O7 spin ice has only added to the interest in these... -
Fluctuating stripes in an insulating hole-doped antiferromagnet
In a recent letter to Nature, Boothroyd and coworkers have shown that the well known hour-glass spectrum, previously observed in some cuprate materials, occurs in a hole doped... -
Muon spin relaxation study of Halden like spin chains in Layered Li3Cu2SbO6
A large variety of exotic magnetic structure and relevant magnetic properties is observed in honeycomb layered oxides. Recently Koo et al. have observed two magnetic... -
Magnetic ordering and correlation phenomena in the rare-earth RT2Al10 compounds
RT2Al10 is a new series of rare-earth-based ternary aluminide compounds that show a variety of magnetic phenomena. This proposal is for a muSR study on three of its members to... -
Magnetic Ground State of a New Honeycomb Iridate
A new layered iridate material, Cu2IrO3, has been fabricated. This material is isostructural with the much-studied Na2IrO3 and has a nearly ideal honeycomb structure that should... -
Superconducting Pairing Symmetry of the Non-Magnetic Anion-Based Organic Supe...
lambda-(BETS)2GaCl4 is a non-magnetic anion-based organic superconductor SC attracting interest since its Fe analog becomes SC by applying 33 T. Both SCs have similar Tc ~5 K.... -
Superconductivity and the FμF state in ACa2Fe4As4F2
Materials with a layered structure have been the subject of great interest as potential candidates for high-temperature superconductors. The ACa2Fe4As4F2 family of materials... -
HfV2Ga4: a new promising class of materials to study unconventional supercond...
It is of great interest to explore possible unconventional superconductivity with multiband pairing state as observed is observed in high Tc Fe-based superconductor. Unusual... -
μSR Study of Superconductor Re2Hf and Re2Zr
Noncentrosymmetric superconductors are expected to exhibit a highly unconventional ground-state, which consists of an admixture of spin-singlet and spin-triplet Cooper pairs.... -
Spin dynamics and magnetism in CeRh6(Ge1-xSix)4
In Ce-based heavy fermion materials, there is competition between the interactions which lead to a magnetically ordered arrangement of the Ce magnetic moments, and the... -
Muon spin relaxation study of the single crystals of rare-earth chalcogenides...
Exploring the exotic quantum phenomena and the related ground state of the frustrated quantum magnets has emerged as a forefront area of condensed matter physics. These... -
Studying the helimagnetic order and precursor phenomena in MnSi under pressure
The archetype chiral system MnSi belongs to the family of non-centrosymmetric cubic helimagnets where a helimagnetic ordering exists below the critical temperature of 29 K. This... -
Broken time reversal symmetry in the superconducting state in Lu5M6Sn18 (M = ...
High quality single crystals Lu5M6Sn18 (M = Co, Rh, and Ir) have been successfully growth by flux method. These caged type compound reveal superconductivity below Tc = 1.5 K, 4... -
Investigating the nature of magnetism by μSR study in the Kondo-lattice ...
Ce-compounds are well known to present very rich physics and exotic electronic ground state due to the competing RKKY, Kondo and crystal field interactions. Recently CeRuPO... -
Valence bond solid in the charge ordered state of Rb4O6
Open p-shell anionic mixed-valence compounds have been recently proposed as intriguing model systems for disentangling the complex interplay of charge, lattice, orbital, and... -
Muon spin rotation and relaxation study to investigate nature of superconduct...
The binary ruthenium pnictides RuAs and RuP exhibit metal-insulator (MI) transition below 200 K and 270 K, respectively, and show an evidence of pseudogap formation in their... -
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... -
A µSR stoichiometry study of TixV1-x alloys superconductivity in the presen...
This is a continuation proposal, for work carried out previously on the EMU and MuSR spectrometers. We have determined that spin fluctuations are present in this system, by... -
Investigation of non-Fermi liquid behaviour in Mn0.75Fe0.25Si through muon sp...
The investigation of electron correlations in intermetallic alloys is fascinating. At times, depending on the nature and strength of correlations, the compounds exhibit...
