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Spinon Confinement and Longitudinal Interchain modes in Yb2Pt2Pb
The f-electron metal Yb2Pt2Pb is best thought of as a one dimensional (1D) quantum spin chain system, despite the fact that the magnetic moments are large and anisotropic with... -
Neutron inelastic scattering of the possible quantum spin ice state of Nd2Zr2...
Nd2Zr2O7 is a new candidate for quantum spin ice proposed theoretically. It has a well-isolated dipolar-octupolar doublet with Ising anisotropy as the crystal field ground state... -
Magnetic Excitations on the Frustrated Triangular Lattice of UAu2
Nature abhors disorder and degeneracy at low temperature. Designing materials that confront this requirement can therefore lead to new states in which the degeneracy is lifted.... -
Detecting quantum critical fluctuations in the distorted kagome Kondo compoun...
Geometrically frustrated spin systems have been studied extensively for decades because of many intriguing phenomena, exemplified by the non-magnetic quantum disordered states.... -
Critical scattering and coupled order parameters in the ferromagnetic superco...
We propose to conduct a high resolution neutron inelastic scattering study of the ferromagnetic superconductor UCoGe. Initial polarised results obtained at 4F1 (Saclay) are... -
Investigation of a frustrated quantum magnet with novel interaction scheme
SrCuTe2O6 consists of a 3-dimensional arrangement of spin-1/2 Cu ions that are coupled into network of isolated triangles,a highly frustrated hyperkagome lattice consisting of... -
Proton diffusion in zirconate perovskites investigated by QENS
The growth in both global demand for energy and fossil-fuel related environmental issues drive research on alternative fuel sources. Solid oxide fuel cells, which can operate on... -
Nearly ferromagnetic fluctuations in CeRhSi3? A high resolution study at lo...
The proposal requests time on OSIRIS to measure the low-energy magnetic fluctuations in CeRhSi3. This compound is a noncentrosymmetric superconductor under pressures of ~10... -
High energy dependence of countable spin excitations in CaFe2O4 using backsca...
Recent high resolution spectroscopy has found countable and discrete excitations in the two dimensional magnet CaFe2O4. This work aims to track these excitations to higher... -
Full reciprocal space mapping of the relaxational dynamics in CH3NH3PbCl3:
The organic-inorganic perovskites with chemical formula CH3NH3PbB(Br,Cl,I)3 have been implicated as being efficient photovoltaic materials. Theoretical calculations and... -
Nearly ferromagnetic fluctuations in CeRhSi3? A high resolution study at lo...
The proposal requests time on OSIRIS to measure the low-energy magnetic fluctuations in CeRhSi3. This compound is a noncentrosymmetric superconductor under pressures of ~10... -
Temperature dependence of spin dynamics near quantum criticality in an Ising ...
This proposal is part of our research programme to explore the interplay of thermal and quantum fluctuations near zero-temperature quantum phase transitions. Here we apply for a... -
Fractionalized spin excitation and crystal electric field study in the rare-e...
A new rare-earth triangular quantum spin liquid (QSL) candidate, YbMgGaO4, has an odd number of electrons per unit cell and spin-orbit entangled effective spin-1/2 (Yb3+).... -
Magnetic structure of the beta-phase of MnAs
MnAs is a promising room-temperature ferromagnetic material for spintronic applications and magnetologic devices, as it can be grown epitaxially on the most relevant... -
Quantum Criticality in YFe2Al10
Quantum phase transitions, where correlation length and time scales diverge, are of broad interest to the condensed matter physics community. The new layered material YFe2Al10... -
What is the cause for the gapped mode in the `BEC' phase of DTN?
Arguably the most-famous quantum phase transition is the Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) of magnons. It can be studied experimentally in gapped quantum paramagnets when an...