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February 2022 - Matt Coak moves to UCL

Farewell to Matt Coak

Dr Matt CoakLink opens in a new window has completed his post-doc working with Paul GoddardLink opens in a new window and has moved to UCL to work with Dr Mark Buitelaar in the Quantum Devices GroupLink opens in a new window.

Fri 17 Mar 2023, 14:25 | Tags: People

August 2022 - PhD for Amelia Hall

Amelia Hall PhD

Congratulations to Amelia HallLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new winAmelia HallLink opens in a new window who has completed her PhD. Matt was supervised by Geetha BalakrishnanLink opens in a new window.

Amelia work on the UK Skymion ProjectLink opens in a new window focussed on studies of intercalated transition metal dichalcogenides that have the potential to host skyrmions, and some of which have been shown to host interesting other magnetic phenomenon such as the chiral soliton lattice.

Fri 17 Mar 2023, 14:15 | Tags: PG Students Research People

January 2022 - PhD for Matt Pearce

PhD award

Congratulations to Matt PearceLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new windo on successfully defending his PhD thesis. Matt was supervised by Paul GoddardLink opens in a new window.

Matt studied a range of strongly correlated electron systems including pyrochlores.

Matt is now a post-doc in Oxford University working with Prof. Radu ColdeaLink opens in a new window.

Fri 04 Mar 2022, 18:40 | Tags: PG Students Research People

November 2021 - Goodbye and good luck to Kathrin Gotze

We bid farewell to Dr Kathrin Gotze who has completed her ERC post-doc working with Paul Goddard and leaves to start work as accelerator scientist at the synchrotron - DESY in Hamburg.

Wed 10 Nov 2021, 13:02 | Tags: People

November 2021 - PhD for Sam Curley

Congratulations to Sam Curley on successfully defending his PhD thesis. Sam’s work was supervised by Paul Goddard.

Sam used pressure and magnetic field to tune quantum interactions and shed light on the causes of exotic magnetism and unconventional superconductivity.

Sam is now based in Manchester where he is training to be a Medical Physicist.

Wed 10 Nov 2021, 11:54 | Tags: PG Students Research

August 2021 - Farewell and good luck to Monica Ciomaga Hatnean

We bid farewell to Monica Ciomaga Hatnean who is leaving the group after 8 years to take up new a role at the ETH in Zurich. We wish Monica and her partner Christian all the best for their new life together in Switzerland.

Sat 14 Aug 2021, 16:43 | Tags: People

July 2021 - PhD for Sam Holt

PhD graduation Congratulations to Sam Holt who has completed his doctorate. Sam’s work on skyrmion materials was supervised by Geetha Balakrishnan and involved preparing samples in polycrystalline, single crystal, and nano particle form, in-house measurements, and neutron scattering experiments.
Sat 03 Jul 2021, 13:01 | Tags: PG Students Research People

April 2021 - PhD for Marta Crisanti

Congratulations to Marta Crisanti who has completed her doctorate. Marta ’s work was supervised by Don Paul, Robert Cubitt, latterly with a little help from Oleg Petrenko. Marta has used SANS to study skyrmions and spent the last three years of her PhD based In Grenoble at the ILL.

Wed 28 Apr 2021, 16:40 | Tags: PG Students Research People

October 2020 - Welcome to our new PhD students

The group welcomes three a new PhD students.

Manisha Islam who joins us from University of York and will work with Oleg Petrenko, Shroya Vaidya who completed a MPhys degree here at the University of Warwick and is supervised by Paul Goddard, and George Wood, who is working with Geetha Balakrishnan after completing his first degree at the University of Bristol.

Fri 18 Dec 2020, 18:31 | Tags: PG Students Research People

December 2019 - Farewell to Santosh Kumar

The group went for a meal in Leamington Spa to wish farewell to Dr Santosh Kumar. Santosh has completed his 4 year post-doc working as part of the PRETAMAG project.

Santosh has returned to India and is currently working at the TIFR Mubai as a Visiting Research Fellow before taking up a post as an Assistant Professor at IIT Dharwad.

Sat 28 Mar 2020, 21:04 | Tags: Research People

October 2019 - New PhD Student

The group welcomes David Jonas, a new PhD student who joins the group after completing his MPhys here at Warwick. David will be working on superconductors with Martin Lees.

Sat 28 Mar 2020, 21:00 | Tags: PG Students

October 2019 - Farewell and good luck to Rob Williams and Ales Stefancic

We bid farewell to Dr Robert Williams who has completed his post-doc working with Paul Godard and leaves to start training as a Medical Physicist at the University of Edinburgh. We also say auf wiedersehen und viel glück to Dr Ales Stefancic, who leaves us after completing his post-doc with Geetha Balakrishnan to take up new a role as a Research Fellow at PSI.

Sat 28 Mar 2020, 20:48 | Tags: People

September 2019 - PhD for Dan Mayoh

Congratulations to Dan Mayoh who has completed his doctorate. Dan’s work was supervised by Martin Lees and involved in-house measurements, and muon spectroscopy and neutron scattering experiments performed at ISIS, studying the properties of some novel noncentrosymmetric superconductors.

Dan's thesis, Experimental Studies of Noncentrosymmetric Superconductors can be downloaded from his web page.

Sat 28 Mar 2020, 20:41 | Tags: PG Students Research People

September 2019 - EPSRC Grant - Single Crystal Growth at Warwick

A project entitled Single Crystal Growth (EP/T005963/1) at Warwick has been funded by the EPSRC from September 2019.

The research is led by Prof. Geetha Balakrishan and includes Dr Monica Ciomaga Hatnean as Senior Research Fellow.

Sat 28 Mar 2020, 20:31 | Tags: Research

June 2019 - PhD for Dr Simon Riberolles

Congratulations to Simon Riberolles who has completed his doctorate. Simon, who was an ILL PhD student, was co-supervised by Oleg Petrenko (Warwick) and Navid Qureshi (ILL).

Simon studied the magnetic properties of the geometrically frustrated SrLn2O4 (Ln = Nd, Gd, Dy, Ho, Er).

Sat 28 Mar 2020, 20:28 | Tags: PG Students Research

March 2019 - Welcome to Dr Matt Coak

The group welcomes Dr Matthew Coak. Matt joins the group having completed a PhD at Cambridge supervised by Dr Siddharth Saxena and and a first postdoctoral position in the Emergent Phenomena Group of the IBS Centre for Correlated Electron Systems at Seoul National University, under Prof Je-Geun Park. Matt will work with Dr Paul Goddard studying the properties of quantum systems at low-temperature, and under high pressure and magnetic field.

Sat 28 Mar 2020, 20:20 | Tags: Research People

September 2018 - PhD for Will Blackmore

Congratulations to Will Blackmore on successfully defending his PhD thesis. His work was supervised by Paul Goddard.

Will's thesis entitled Ground states in low-dimensional quantum magnets can be downloaded from WRAP here.

Sat 28 Mar 2020, 20:14 | Tags: PG Students Research People

October 2018 - Welcome to Amelia Hall, new PhD student

The Group welcomes Amelia Hall, a new PhD student. Amelia, who joins us from York, will be working with Geetha Balakrishnan on skyrmionic materials.

Sat 22 Dec 2018, 20:59 | Tags: PG Students People

July 2018 - PhD for Jamie Brambleby

Congratulations to Jamie Brambleby on successfully defending his PhD thesis. His work was supervised by Paul Goddard.

Jamie's thesis is entitled Quantum magnetism in coordination polymers. The thesis can be downloaded from WRAP here.

Sat 22 Dec 2018, 20:53 | Tags: PG Students Research People

September 2018 - Ali Julian leaves for Cornwall

It's goodbye and good luck to Ali Julian our Group Technician, who is leaving Warwick University to return to his family business in Cornwall. Everyone in the Group would like to thank Ali for all his hard work over the last three years and to wish him and the Julian family every success for their new life in Cornwall.

Sat 22 Dec 2018, 20:45 | Tags: People

December 2017 - PhD for Daniel Brunt

Daniel Brunt Ph.D.  

Congratulations to Dan Brunt who has completed his doctorate. Dan, whose PhD work was supervised by Oleg Petrenko, used in-house measurements and neutron scattering experiements performed at ISIS and the ILL to study the magnetic properties of some rare earth tetraborides.

Dan's thesis which is entitled Magnetic properties of frustrated Shastry-Sutherland magnets; rare earth Tetraborides can be downloaded from his web page or from Warwick WRAP.
Sat 17 Mar 2018, 21:18 | Tags: PG Students Research

APS March Meeting 2018 - Los Angeles

APS 2018 - Loa Angeles Dan Mayoh and Geetha Balakrishnan both present talks at this year's APS March meeting in Los Angeles.
Sat 17 Mar 2018, 20:59 | Tags: Conferences and Meetings

December 2017 - Award for the best paper published by a research fellow in the Physics Department in 2017

In recognition of the excellent contribution that postdocs make to the research in the Physics Department at the University of Warwick, the Head of Department, Prof. David Leadley, has initiated an award for the best paper published by a research fellow this year. Chris Patrick and Santosh Kumar from PRETAMAG have jointly won the first award for their paper “Rare-earth/transition-metal magnetic interactions in pristine and (Ni,Fe)-doped YCo5 and GdCo5Phys.Rev.Materials 1, 02411 (2017). The paper was consider to be well-written and to convey clearly the outcomes of the joint theory-experimental activities. The interpretation of results and insight into the materials that this joint approach has enabled was particularly commended.

Fri 05 Jan 2018, 11:03 | Tags: Research Publications

October 2017 - Welcome to 3 New PhD Students

The Group welcomes 3 new PhD students, Sam Holt, Bethany Hampshire, and Sam Curley. Sam Holt will be working with Geetha Balakrishnan on Skyrmionic materials. Beth will be working under the joint supervision of Don Paul (Warwick) and Aidy Hillier (ISIS-RAL) on the use of negative muons, studying at Warwick and at ISIS. Sam Curley will be working with Paul Goddard on an ERC project studying Quantum Materials under Extreme Conditions.

Sat 30 Sep 2017, 20:19 | Tags: PG Students People

July - September 2017 URSS projects

Two Undergraduate Research Support Scheme (URSS) project students have joined the group over the summer. Oliver Rigby (3rd year Physics) is working with Martin Lees and Santosh Kumar on the physics of rare earth transition metal magnets as part of the PRETAMAG project. Stepan Marek (2nd year Physics) is working with Oleg Petrenko on SrRE2O4 frustrated magnetic materials.

Thu 03 Aug 2017, 14:07 | Tags: People

July 2017 - Group Summer Meal

The Group held its summer meal at Seasons restaurant in Leamington Spa. The whole group took the chance to get together and to wish Saurabh Barua bon voyage, as he is leaving the Group soon when his post-doc comes to a close.

The meal came about due to the excellent organisation of Dan Brunt. Thanks Dan!

Thu 03 Aug 2017, 12:03 | Tags: People

July - August 2017 - Three Visitors from Japan

Over the last month, Prof. Geetha Balakrishnan and the group have hosted three separate visits by Japanese scientists.

Dr. Kaya Kobayashi from Okayama University has been working with Dr Ales Stefancic growing some new superconducting single crystals.

Prof. Toshiro Takabatake from Hiroshima University, a world leading expert in crystal growth and especially heavy fermions, Kondo insulators, thermoelectrics and related materials, visited us to discuss joint projects that included a reciprocal visit by Dan Mayoh to Hiroshima in August.

Prof. Shinchiro Seki, RIKEN, Japan also visited us in August to discuss the study of magnetic materials and Skyrmions in materials.

Thu 03 Aug 2017, 11:54 | Tags: Research People

July 2017 - Theoretical and Experimental Magnetism Meeting 2017

Almost the whole group decamped to Abingdon to attend the annual Theoretical and Experimental Magnetism Meeting (TEMM 2017). The meeting was combined with IOP Magnetism TCM joint group symposium and the UK-Korea workshop on strongly correlated electron systems. It was a great chance to talk to old friends and colleagues and to make new contacts. Dan Brunt gave an invited talk at the TCM theory meeting.

Prof. Ray Osborn, who is based at Argonne National Laboratory in the USA visited us just before TEMM and gave a CMP seminar, while Dr. Sylvain Petit of LLB -CEA Saclay came back from Abingdon with us to visit our labs and discuss future projects.

Thu 03 Aug 2017, 11:50 | Tags: Conferences and Meetings People

APS March Meeting 2017 - New Orleans

Monica Hatnean Ciomaga and Geetha Balakrishnan both attended this year's APS March meeting in New Orleans. Part scientific meeting – part Mardi Gras!

Thu 03 Aug 2017, 11:39 | Tags: Conferences and Meetings People

January 2017 - PhD for Joel Barker

Congratulations to Joel Barker on successfully defending his PhD thesis. Joel, whose PhD work was jointly supervised by Don Paul at Warwick and Aidy Hillier at ISIS-RAL, has been studying the physics of non-centrosymmetric superconductors with a particular emphasis on the use of muon spectroscopy.

Joel's thesis which is entitled Muon Studies of Unconventional Superconductors can be downloaded from his web page.

Sat 11 Feb 2017, 15:43 | Tags: PG Students Research People

January 2017 - Welcome to Dr Ales Stefancic and Marta Crisanti

We welcome Dr Ales Stefancic who has recently joined the Group as Post-Doctoral Research Assistant (PDRA) studying the physics of Skyrmionic materials. Ales will work here at Warwick as part of a larger EPSRC Programme Grant Skyrmionics: From Magnetic Excitations to Functioning Low-Energy Devices involving the Universities of Durham, Cambridge, Southampton, and Oxford. The work here at Warwick will be led by Prof. Geetha Balakrishnan.

We also welcome Marta Crisanti who joins us as a Warwick/ILL Ph.D. student working under the joint supervision of Don Paul (Warwick) and Robert Cubitt who works in the Large Scale Structures Group at the ILL. Marta will also be working on Skyrmionic materials, focussing on the use of small angle neutron scattering.

Wed 18 Jan 2017, 12:21 | Tags: PG Students Research People

December 2016 - Paper published in Physical Review B

Oxides containing 5d ions, particularly Ir4+, offer possibilities for interesting spin-orbit and spin-lattice coupling effects. In these materials, the energy scales for spin-orbit interactions, Coulomb repulsion, and crystalline-electric fields can be very similar. Competition between these three energies can result in exotic magnetic states such as spin-orbit entanglement, extreme magnetic exchange anisotropy leading to, for example, a Kitaev spin liquid, and spin-orbit entangled Mott insulating behaviour.

Using experiments performed at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, a team from the USA, UK and South Korea (including Paul Goddard at Warwick) have observed extremely large coercive magnetic fields of up to 55 T in Sr3NiIrO6 and 52 T in Sr3CoIrO6, with switched magnetic moments of ≈ 1μB and 3μB per formula unit, respectively. Rather than the switching of magnetic domains, which is the cause of the coercive fields of traditional ferromagnets, the large hysteresis observed in our materials evolves out of a frustrated, antiferromagnetic ground state that incorporates an entangled spin-orbit state on the 5d ion.

Magnetic properties of Sr3NiIrO6 and Sr3CoIrO6: Magnetic hysteresis with coercive fields of up to 55 T, J. Singleton, J. W. Kim, C. V. Topping, A. Hansen, E.-D. Mun, S. Chikara, I. Lakis, S. Ghannadzadeh, P. Goddard, X. Luo, Y. S. Oh, S.-W. Cheong, and V. S. Zapf, Physical Review B 94, 224408 (2016).

Wed 04 Jan 2017, 18:08 | Tags: Research Publications

December 2016 - Welcome to Dr Kathrin Gotze and Dr Robert Williams

Welcome to Dr Kathrin Gotze and Dr Robert Williams who have recently joined the Group as Post-Doctoral Research Assistants (PDRAs).

Kathrin previously worked in the High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Dresden, while Rob has just completed his PhD at Durham University. Both Robert and Kathrin will be working on an ERC funded project entitled Quantum Materials Under Extreme Conditions led by Dr Paul Goddard.

Sat 17 Dec 2016, 21:53 | Tags: Research People

November 2016, ERC Grant - Quantum Materials Under Extreme Conditions

Dr Paul Goddard has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant with maximum ERC funding of 1.84 million euros.

The EXTREMEQUANTUM project will significantly advance our knowledge of interacting quantum systems.

Sat 17 Dec 2016, 21:51 | Tags: Research People

October 2016, new PhD students join the Group

Welcome to Amy Tedstone and Matt Pearce who have joined the Group as PhD students. Amy will be working jointly with Rachel Edwards of the Ultrasound Group and Martin Lees and Geetha Balakrishnan on Permanent Magnet Systems (PRETAMAG project). Matt has joined Paul Goddard working on Low Dimensional and Molecular Magnets.

Wed 05 Oct 2016, 08:27

May 2016 - Paper published in Nature Physics

A paper has been published in Nature Physics that reveals that magnetic fragmentation occurs in the spin ice candidate Nd2Zr2O7. The work was carried out in collaboration with colleagues from the CEA in Saclay and the ILL, CEA, and the Institut Neel in Grenoble.

It has recently been suggested that in spin ice, the magnetic moment field can fragment, resulting in a dual ground state consisting of a fluctuating spin liquid, a so-called Coulomb phase, on top of a magnetic monopole crystal. Here we show, by means of neutron scattering measurements, that such fragmentation occurs in Nd2Zr2O7. We observe the spectacular coexistence of an antiferromagnetic order induced by the monopole crystallization and a fluctuating state with ferromagnetic correlations.

Experimentally, this fragmentation manifests itself through the superposition of magnetic Bragg peaks, characteristic of the ordered phase, and a pinch point pattern, characteristic of the Coulomb phase. These results highlight the relevance of the fragmentation concept to describe the physics of systems that are simultaneously ordered and fluctuating.

Observation of magnetic fragmentation in spin ice, S. Petit, E. Lhotel, B. Canals, M. Ciomaga Hatnean, J. Ollivier, H. Mutka, E. Ressouche, A. R. Wildes, M. R. Lees, and G. Balakrishnan, Nature Physics 12, 746, (2016).

Also see ILL highlights.

Wed 25 May 2016, 19:33 | Tags: Research Publications

May 2016 - PhD for Mo Saghir

Congratulations to Mo Saghir on successfully defending his PhD thesis. Mo, whose Ph.D. work was supervised by Geetha Balakrishnan, has been working on growing new topological insulators and superconductors in both bulk and nano form.

Mo's thesis is entitled Topological Insulators: A Study of Bulk Crystalline and Nanomaterials and can be downloaded from his web page.

Wed 25 May 2016, 19:30 | Tags: PG Students People

May 2016 - Paper published in Nature Physics

At temperatures above 300mK, gradual restoration of kinetic monopole equilibria causes the non-Ohmic current to smoothly evolve into the high-field Wien effect for magnetic monopoles, as confirmed by comparison to a recent and rigorous theory of the Wien effect in spin ice. The results extend the universality of the exponential-root field form into magnetism and illustrate the power of emergent particle kinetics to describe far-from-equilibrium response in complex systems.

Experimental signature of the attractive Coulomb force between positive and negative magnetic monopoles in spin ice, C. Paulsen, S. R. Giblin, E. Lhotel, D. Prabhakaran, G. Balakrishnan, K. Matsuhira, and S. T. Bramwell, Nature Physics 12, 661 (2016).

Tue 24 May 2016, 18:29 | Tags: Research Publications

TO-BE Meeting, Spring 2016 - University of Warwick 6th-8th April 2016

Geetha Balakrishnan has successfully organised and co-chaired (along with Rosalba Tatiana Fittipaldi) the Spring 2016, Towards Oxide Based Electronics (TO-BE) meeting here in the Physics Department at the University of Warwick.

The conference addressed recent global trends in the field of Transition Metal Oxides, covering a wide range of topics including fabrication methods, sophisticated analytical techniques and the fundamental understanding of these materials in various forms (thin films, bulk, nanostructures). The scope of the meeting also covered the use of oxides in applications and in industry.

The Local Organising Committee included Natalia Parzyk, and help with bell ringing from Mo Saghir.

Monica Ciomaga-Hatnean gave a talk on Friday 8th April.

Fri 08 Apr 2016, 19:37 | Tags: Conferences and Meetings

February 2016 - Welcome to Dr Sourabh Barua and Dr Santosh Kumar

Welcome to Dr Sourabh Barua and Dr Santosh Kumar who have just joined the Group as Post-Doctoral Research Assistants (PDRAs).

Santosh will be working with Geetha Balakrishnan, Martin Lees, and Rachel Edwards (Ultrasound Group) on a project to study rare-earth based permanent magnetic systems. This EPSRC funded project (PRETAMAG) includes experimental and theoretical studies and is led by Professor Julie Staunton.

Sourabh will be studying topological insulators in bulk and nano form in an EPSRC project led by Geetha Balakrishnan with collaborations at several institutions including the universities of Manchester and St Andrews, PSI, UCLA, and TIFR.

Wed 02 Mar 2016, 23:04 | Tags: People

February 2016 - Paper published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society

A paper has been published in JACS which reports the accurate electron density distribution and magnetic properties of two metal–organic polymeric magnets. The work is a collaboration with the Universities of Bern, Eastern Washington, Durham, and Oxford, and the high field laboratory in Los Alamos,

The paper combines high-resolution single-crystal X-ray diffraction, DFT calculations, and magnetic studies to characterize the possible magnetic exchange pathways and establish the relationships between the electron (charge and spin) densities and the exchange-coupling constants in both compounds.

Experimental and Theoretical Electron Density Analysis of Copper Pyrazine Nitrate Quasi-Low-Dimensional Quantum Magnets, L. H. R. Dos Santos, A. Lanza, A. M. Barton, J. Brambleby, W. J. A. Blackmore, P. A. Goddard, F. Xiao, R. C. Williams, T. Lancaster, F. L. Pratt, S. J. Blundell, J. Singleton, J. L. Manson, P. Macchi, Journal of the American Chemical Society 138, 2280 (2016).

Mon 29 Feb 2016, 08:58 | Tags: PG Students Research Publications

December 2015 - Paper published in Physical Review Letters

A paper has been published in Physical Review Letters reporting our discovery of unconventional superconductivity in La7Ir3, one of a new family of noncentrosymmetric superconductors that breaks time reversal symmetry. The study using muon spectroscopy was carried out in collaboration with colleagues from IISER, Bhopal and TIFR, Mumbai in India, and ISIS-RAL.

Unconventional Superconductivity in La7Ir3 Revealed by Muon Spin Relaxation: Introducing a New Family of Noncentrosymmetric Superconductor That Breaks Time-Reversal Symmetry, J. A. T. Barker, D. Singh, A. Thamizhavel, A. D. Hillier, M. R. Lees, G. Balakrishnan, D. M. Paul, and R. P. Singh, Physical Review Letters 115, 267001 (2015).

Fri 15 Jan 2016, 16:49 | Tags: PG Students Research Publications

November 2015 - Paper published in Physical Review Letters

Neutron scattering and magnetization measurements down to 90 mK have been used to determine the magnetic ground state of the spin-ice candidate Nd2Zr2O7. Along with colleagues from Grenoble and Saclay we show Nd2Zr2O7 undergoes a transition at 285 mK towards an all-in–all-out antiferromagnetic state, and establish the H-T phase diagram. We propose that this behaviour results from the peculiar nature of the Nd dipolar-octupolar doublet, revealing the importance of multipolar correlations in pyrochlore oxides.

Fluctuations and All-In All-Out Ordering in Dipole-Octupole Nd2Zr2O7, E. Lhotel, S. Petit, S. Guitteny, O. Florea, M. Ciomaga Hatnean, C. Colin, E. Ressouche, M. R. Lees, and G. Balakrishnan, Physical Review Letters 115, 197202 (2015).

Fri 01 Jan 2016, 22:18 | Tags: Research Publications

October 2015 - Three new students join the Group

Welcome to Panayiota Argyrou, Daniel Mayoh, and Simon Riberolles who have all joined the Group as students.

Daniel will be working toward a PhD based here at Warwick, while Simon will spend one year at Warwick and then two years based at the Institute Laue Langevin (ILL) in Grenoble, France as an ILL PhD student. Panayiota will be working for an MSc by research here at Warwick.

Wed 21 Oct 2015, 19:01 | Tags: PG Students People

October 2015 - Paper published in Science

A paper examining the hidden magnetic order in the spin-liquid Gd3Ga5O12 has been published in the journal Science. Along with colleagues based in Oxford, the Niels Bohr Institute Copenhagen, Denmark, ESS Lund, Sweden, and the ILL Grenoble, France the work combines neutron scattering with theory to show that the spin-liquid Gd3Ga5O12 supports hidden order in which multipoles are formed from 10 spin loops.

Hidden order in spin-liquid Gd3Ga5O12, J. A. M. Paddison, H. Jacobsen, O. A. Petrenko, M. T. Fernández-Díaz, P. P. Deen, and A. L. Goodwin, Science 350, 179 (2015).

Please also see ILL Highlights 2015.

Fri 09 Oct 2015, 12:24 | Tags: Research Publications

September 2015 - Tom Orton heads to Nijmegen

It's goodbye and good luck or rather tot ziens en succes to Tom Orton our Group Technician, who is leaving the Group after 15+ years of loyal service, man and boy. Tom is moving to Holland to work in the High Field Magnet Laboratory in Nijmegen. Everyone in Group would like to wish him success in his new role. Good luck Tom!

Thu 17 Sep 2015, 21:29 | Tags: People

August 2015 - Paper published in Nano Letters

A paper demonstrating a new approach that allows air sensitive two-dimensional crystals to be cleaved, transferred, aligned, and encapsulated has been published in the journal Nano Letters. Along with colleagues based in Manchester, Grenoble in France, and Tsukuba in Japan, the work illustrates this technology on black phosphorous and niobium diselenide.

Quality Heterostructures from Two-Dimensional Crystals Unstable in Air by Their Assembly in Inert Atmosphere, Y. Cao, A. Mishchenko, G. L. Yu, E. Khestanova, A. P. Rooney, E. Prestat, A. V. Kretinin, P. Blake, M. B. Shalom, C. Woods, J. Chapman, G. Balakrishnan, I. V. Grigorieva, K. S. Novoselov, B. A. Piot, M. Potemski, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, S. J. Haigh, A. K. Geim, and R. V. Gorbachev, Nano Letters 15, 4914 (2015).

Fri 11 Sep 2015, 20:02 | Tags: Research Publications

August 2015 - EPSRC Grant Funded - Rare Earth Transition Metal Permanent Magnets

Geetha Balakrishnan and Martin Lees are two Co-Investigators on an EPSRC grant worth £931k to study the physics underlying the principles of design of rare earth - transition metal permanent magnets. The programme will be led by Prof. Julie Staunton and also includes Rachel Edwards here at Warwick.

Sat 29 Aug 2015, 00:13 | Tags: Research

July 2015 - Paper published in Science

A paper examining the unconventional Fermi surface in an insulating state in hexaboride SmB6 has been published in the journal Science. Along with colleagues based in Cambridge , the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee and Los Alamos observation, and the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington DC, the work shows that SmB6 has an unusual insulating state with an electrically insulating bulk that simultaneously yields bulk quantum oscillations with characteristics of an unconventional Fermi liquid.

B. S. Tan, Y.-T. Hsu,1 B. Zeng, M. Ciomaga Hatnean, N. Harrison, Z. Zhu, M. Hartstein, M. Kiourlappou, A. Srivastava, M. D. Johannes, T. P. Murphy, J.-H. Park, L. Balicas, G. G. Lonzarich, G. Balakrishnan, and Suchitra E. Sebastian Unconventional Fermi surface in an insulating state, Science 349, 287 (2015).

Mon 06 Jul 2015, 13:34 | Tags: Research Publications

July 2015, EPSRC Grant Funded - Single Crystal Growth

Geetha Balakrishnan has been awarded a grant of £515k to continue our succcessful Single Crystal Growth programme here at Warwick. The new programme will run until June 2018.

Mon 06 Jul 2015, 11:54 | Tags: Research

June 2015 - Department Thesis Prize for Michael Smidman

Congratulations to Dr Michael Smidman who has been awarded a Physics Department Thesis Prize for 2015. Michael, whose PhD work was supervised by Geetha Balakrishnan, graduated from the Group in 2014. Michael's PhD is entitled "Superconducting and magnetic properties of non-centrosymmetric systems". The Thesis prize is sponsored by the Faculty of Science.

Fri 19 Jun 2015, 18:36 | Tags: PG Students

June 2015, Paper published in Physical Review Letters

A paper entitled Dispersionless Spin Waves and Underlying Field-Induced Magnetic Order in Gadolinium Gallium Garnet has been published in Physical Review Letters. Oleg Petrenko and Nick d’Ambrumenil based here at Warwick, along with Hannu Mutka and Pascale Deen, have used neutron diffraction and inelastic neutron scattering in high magnetic fields to study the unusual magnetic properties of Gd3Ga5O12. (Also see ESS website highlights).

N. d’Ambrumenil, O. A. Petrenko, H. Mutka, and P. P. Deen, Physical Review Letters 114, 227203 (2015).

Tue 09 Jun 2015, 14:06 | Tags: Research Publications

May 2015, Neutron and Muon Science User Meeting 2015 Poster Prize

Neutron Muon Science User and Meeting Poster Prize. Congratulations to Joel Barker who was awarded a prize for his poster at the UK NMSUM 2015.

Fri 22 May 2015, 19:08 | Tags: PG Students Conferences and Meetings Research

October 2014, PhD Graduation - Natalia Parzyk

Congratulations to Natalia Parzyk. Natalia, who has been working on the physics of some unconventional superconductors, has just completed her PhD Natalia who was supervised by Don Paul becomes the latest PhD student to graduate from the Superconductivity and Magnetism Group.

Thu 23 Oct 2014, 20:41 | Tags: PG Students Research

October 2014, New Group Members

Welcome to Talha Ahmad and Will Blackmore who have joined the Group as PhD students. Talha will be working with Geetha Balakrishnan on Topological Insulators. Will has joined Paul Goddard working on Low Dimensional and Molecular Magnets.

Fri 10 Oct 2014, 10:10 | Tags: PG Students Research

August 2014, Ph.D. Graduation - Robert Cook

Congratulations to Robert Cook. Robert has just completed his Ph.D. under the supervision Martin Lees and Peter Ellis (Johnson Matthey) to become the latest Ph.D. student to graduate from the Superconductivity and Magnetism Group.

Thu 04 Sep 2014, 19:21 | Tags: PG Students Research

July 2014, Paper published in Nature

A paper has been published in Nature in which angle-resolved quantum oscillation measurements are used to study the normal-state nodal electronic structure in underdoped high-Tc copper oxides. The work was performed at the High Field Laboratory in Los Alamos by Paul Goddard, along with his colleagues Suchitra Sebastian, N. Harrison, F. F. Balakirev, M. M. Altarawneh, Ruixing Liang, D. A. Bonn, W. N. Hardy and G. G. Lonzarich from Cambridge, Los Alamos, Mu’tah Universit in Jordan, and the University of British Columbia in Canada.

Suchitra E. Sebastian, N. Harrison, F. F. Balakirev, M. M. Altarawneh, P. A. Goddard, Ruixing Liang, D. A. Bonn, W. N. Hardy & G. G. Lonzarich, Nature 511, 61 (2014).

Thu 04 Sep 2014, 19:18 | Tags: Research Publications

July 2014, PhD Graduation - Michael Smidman

Congratulations to Michael Smidman. Michael (who has never looked so smart!) has just completed his PhD under the supervision of Geetha Balakrishnan and become the latest PhD student to graduate from the Superconductivity and Magnetism Group. Please also see news item in June 2015.

Fri 25 Jul 2014, 15:34 | Tags: PG Students Research

July 2014, Highly Frustrated Magnetism

Several members of the Group (past and present) attended the 2014 International Conference on Highly Frustrated Magnetism held in Queens College, Cambridge on July 7-11, 2014. Dr. Monica Ciomaga Hatnean and Martin Lees gave presentations. HFM 2014 was co-organised by Dr. Oleg Petrenko.

Fri 25 Jul 2014, 15:16 | Tags: Conferences and Meetings Research

July 2014, Warwick Physics Day

A Warwick Physics Day on the Latest Developments in Frustrated Magnetism:spin liquids, spin glass, spin ice state was held on Saturday 5 July 2014.

The day was organised by Oleg Petrenko and featured speakers from around the world.

Fri 25 Jul 2014, 15:11 | Tags: Conferences and Meetings Research

May 2014, Paper published in Angewandte Chemie

A paper has been published in Angewandte Chemie Int. Ed. describing a new synthesis approach to oxides of ruthenium, including new structures, and materials with unusual magnetic properties. The work was performed by Craig Hiley, a PhD student in the group of Richard Walton, in collaboration with an industrial partner (Johnson Matthey) and co-workers in Physics, as part of an ongoing study into the chemistry of precious-metal containing materials.

C.I. Hiley, M.R. Lees, J.M. Fisher, D. Thompsett, S. Agrestini, R.I. Smith and R.I. Walton, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 53, 4423 (2014).

Fri 02 May 2014, 19:12 | Tags: PG Students Research Publications

April 2014, Paper published in Physical Review B (Rapid Communications)

A paper describing a systematic investigation of the magnetic properties of the three-dimensional Kondo topological insulator SmB6 using magnetization and muon-spin relaxation/rotation measurements has been published in Physical Review B. The study was carried out in collaboration with colleagues based at PSI and Zurich in Switerland, and Princeton in the USA.

P. K. Biswas, Z. Salman, T. Neupert, E. Morenzoni, E. Pomjakushina, F. von Rohr, K. Conder, G. Balakrishnan, M. Ciomaga Hatnean, M. R. Lees, D. McK. Paul, A. Schilling, C. Baines, H. Luetkens, R. Khasanov, and A. Amato, Phys. Rev. B 89, 161107(R) (2014).

Fri 18 Apr 2014, 15:28 | Tags: Research Publications

March 2014, Paper published in Physical Review Letters

A paper describing our work on the non centrosymmetric superconductor Re6Zr has been published in Physical Review Letters. The study using muon spectroscopy was carried out in collaboration with colleagues from Kent, Bristol, and ISIS-RAL.

R. P. Singh, A. D. Hillier, B. Mazidian, J. Quintanilla, J. F. Annett, D. McK. Paul, G. Balakrishnan, and M. R. Lees, Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 107002 (2014).

Fri 04 Apr 2014, 18:31 | Tags: Research Publications

March 2014, Oleg Petrenko has been appointed Chairman of the Single Crystal Diffraction, STAP

Oleg Petrenko has been appointed Chairman of the Single Crystal Diffraction, Instrument Scientific and Advisory Technical Panel (STAP) at the European Spallation Source (ESS). The STAP consist of experts from Europe and around the world, contributing their knowledge and experience to help design and build a single-crystal diffractometer at the ESS.

Fri 04 Apr 2014, 17:27 | Tags: Research

March 2014, APS March Meeting, Denver

Mo Saghir, Martin Lees, and Geetha Balakrishnan attend the APS March meeting in Denver, Colorado. The meeting featured presentations on all aspects of Condensed Matter Physics including our own work on topological insulators and exotic superconductors.

Fri 04 Apr 2014, 17:20 | Tags: Conferences and Meetings Research

February 2014, International Workshop on Frustration and Topology in Condensed Matter Physics, Tainan, Taiwan

Geetha Balakrishnan and Martin Lees both gave invited talks at the International Workshop on Frustrated and Topology in Condensed Matter Physics held in Tainan, Taiwan from 13th to 16th February 2014. Prof. Lieh Jeng Chang, who completed his PhD in our Group in 1997, hosted the Conference and was a senior member of the Organizing Committee.

Fri 04 Apr 2014, 17:03 | Tags: Conferences and Meetings Research

January 2014, EPSRC Grant

Geetha Balakrishnan has been awarded a grant of £490k to study topological insulators.

Fri 04 Apr 2014, 15:47 | Tags: Research

December 2013, PhD Graduation - Olga Young

Congratulations to Olga Young. Olga has just completed her PhD under the supervision of Oleg Petrenko and become the latest PhD student to graduate from the Superconductivity and Magnetism Group.

Fri 04 Apr 2014, 15:46 | Tags: PG Students

October 2013, New Group Members

Welcome to Jamie Brambleby and Daniel Brunt who have joined the Group as PhD students.

Fri 04 Apr 2014, 15:44 | Tags: PG Students

September 2013, MPhil Graduation - Tom Hayes

Congratulations to Tom Hayes who has completed an MPhil under the supervision of Oleg Petrenko.

Fri 04 Apr 2014, 15:43 | Tags: PG Students

April 2013, NMUM Poster Prize

Neutron Muon User Meeting Poster Prize. Congratulations to Joel Barker who was awarded joint first prize for his poster at the NMUM 2013.

Fri 04 Apr 2014, 15:38 | Tags: PG Students Conferences and Meetings Research