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Correlation of structural and magnetic properties in oxides containing 1-D ch...
Purely ferromagnetic (FM) oxides are uncommon but we recently reported FM behaviour in a mineral induced by quite small magnetic fields. This ability relates to the presence of... -
Neutron Diffraction study on two novel topological Dirac semimetal candidates...
Dirac fermions with linear energy dispersion with momentum space have been of current interest for spintronic applications because a variety of quantum transport phenomena... -
Magnetic-field induced long-range spin order in quantum spin liquid candidate...
Quantum spin liquid (QSL) is a novel state of matter where the spins are highly entangled with one another but fluctuate strongly down to zero temperature. It may be associated... -
Quantum magnetism in lanthanide gallium garnet magnetocaloric materials
Geometrically frustrated lanthanide gallium garnets find practical applications as low temperature magnetocalorics, but the competing interactions in these materials may give... -
Pressure effect on magnetic orderings in multiferroic frustrated triangular l...
We propose to perform neutron diffraction experiments on a powder sample of the frustrated triangular lattice antiferromagnets α-NaFeO2 under high-pressure up to 18 kbar... -
Partially disordered antiferromagnet phase of CsCoX3 (X=Cl, Br)
Systems of the CsCoX3 family form antiferromagnetic chains along the c-axis, and are arranged in a frustrated triangular arrangement in the ab-plane. Below 30K, both systems... -
Magnetic phase diagram of the quasi-2D honeycomb antiferromagnet Na2Co2TeO6
The layered compound Na2Co2TeO6 is a model honeycomb compound having a zigzag antiferromagnetic (AFM) ground state. Na2Co2TeO6 poses a rich magnetic phase diagram in the H-T... -
Doping dependence of the lattice and magnetic structures in La(2-x)Sr(x)CuIrO6
Double-perovskite iridates attract attention as they combine 5d and 3d magnetism, where spin-orbit coupling plays a significant role in determining a magnetic ground states.... -
Crystal and magnetic structures of Pb2-xBixMnO4
Manganese based oxides are of great interest for both spintronic and multiferroic applications.Pb2MnO4 crystallizes in the acentric but non-polar space group P-421c which... -
Topochemically Reduced Complex Iridium Oxides
In recent years there has been a growing interest in modifying the anion lattice of complex transition metal oxides, via topochemical manipulation, to tune the magnetic and... -
Crystal and magnetic structures of new layered perovskites of possible oxygen...
New layered perovskite compounds LaBaFeMnO5 and LaBaFeMnO6 were recently synthesized. They may be useful for future oxygen storage applications. Fe-Mössbauer spectroscopy has... -
Magnetic structure determination of electron doped Kondo insulator CeFe2Al10
CeFe2Al10 belongs to CeT2Al10 family (T: Ru, Os, Fe), which exhibits Kondo insulating behavior, with an unusual competition of strongly anisotropic crystal-field and exchange... -
Crystal and magnetic structures of polar Co2ScSbO6 oxides
Polar A2BSbO6 oxides with the Ni3TeO6 structure type (space group R3) are being investigated as possible ferroelectrics. Ni2ScSbO6 is reported to have incommensurate helical... -
A comparative study of tricriticality in CoMnSi and NiMnGe
We propose to use WISH to examine whether a transition between different spiral antiferromagnetic structures in zero magnetic field is the key to tricriticality at finite fields... -
Magnetic ordering and an extraordinary anomalous Hall effect in the itinerant...
-Fe3Sn2 is a rare example of a ferromagnetic metal. It features a giant Anomalous Hall Effect (AHE) at room temperature that makes it a candidate material for spintronics... -
Magnetic ordering in the layered honeycomb alpha-RuCl3
This proposal is part of our research programme to explore novel phases stabilized by the combined effect of spin-orbit interaction and electron correlations. Here we aim to... -
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... -
Uniaxial pressure induced spin-density wave order in CeAuSb2
We propose to apply uniaxial strain to induce a spin-density wave (SDW) modulation in CeAuSb2. Neutron diffraction measurements show this system has a tendency to order along... -
Magnetic ground state of Ni(III) S=1/2 square-lattice oxyhalides Sr2NiO3X (X ...
Square-lattice antiferromagnetic oxides with spin S=1/2 provide the basis for many dramatic and interesting phenomena, include high temperature superconductivity observed in... -
Are La3Ni2NbO9 and La3Ni2TaO9 relaxor ferromagnets?
A relaxor ferroelectric exhibits a net polarisation only in an applied electric field due to the co-alignment of polar nanoregions. In La3Ni2SbO9 we found the magnetic...
