Publications 2014
Exchange interactions in Ca3Co2O6 probed locally by NMR, G. Allodi, P. Santini, S. Carretta, S. Agrestini, C. Mazzoli, A. Bombardi, M. R. Lees, and R. De Renzi, Physical Review B 89, 104401 (2014).
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Low-temperature magnetic fluctuations in the Kondo insulator SmB6, 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, Physical Review B 89, 161107(R) (2014).
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Superconducting and magnetic properties of Sr3Ir4Sn13, P. K. Biswas, A. Amato, R. Khasanov, H. Luetkens, K. F. Wang, C. Petrovic, R. M. Cook, M. R. Lees, and E. Morenzoni, Physical Review B 90, 144505 (2014).
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Synthesis, structure and magnetism of the mixed-valent phosphonate phosphonate cage, Mn(II)Mn(III)12(mu4-O)6(mu-OH)6(O3P-t-Bu)10(OH2)2(DMF)4][2MeOH.4DMF], V. Chandrasekhar, J. Goura, K. Gopal, J. Liu, and P. Goddard, Polyhedron 72, 35 (2014).
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Static magnetic moments revealed by muon spin relaxation and thermodynamic measurements in the quantum spin ice Yb2Ti2O7, L.-J. Chang, M. R. Lees, I. Watanabe, A. D. Hillier, Y. Yasui, and S. Onoda, Physical Review B 89, 184416 (2014).
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Structural and magnetic properties of single-crystals of the geometrically frustrated zirconium pyrochlore, Pr2Zr2O7, M. C. Hatnean, C. Decorse, M. R. Lees, O. A. Petrenko, D. S. Keeble, and G. Balakrishnan, Materials Research Express 1, 026109 (2014).
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Crystal growth and characterization of the non-centrosymmetric antiferromagnet Ba2CuGe2O7, R. Fittipaldi, L. Rocco, M. C. Hatnean, V. Granata, M. R. Lees, G. Balakrishnan, and A. Vecchione, Journal of Crystal Growth 404, 223 (2014).
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Ultrasonic investigations of the spin ices Dy2Ti2O7 and Ho2Ti2O7 in and out of equilibrium, S. Erfanifam, S. Zherlitsyn, S. Yasin, Y. Skourski, J. Wosnitza, A. A. Zvyagin, P. McClarty, R. Moessner, G. Balakrishnan, and O. A. Petrenko, Physical Review B 90, 064409 (2014).
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Upper critical field of NaFe1-xCoxAs superconductors, S. Ghannadzadeh, J. D. Wright, F. R. Foronda, S. J. Blundell, S. J. Clarke, and P. A. Goddard, Physical Review B 89, 054502 (2014).
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A Direct Three-Component Reaction for the Isolation of a Nonanuclear Iron(III) Phosphonate, J. Goura, J. J. Liu, P. Goddard, and V. Chandrasekhar, European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry 2014, 4342 (2014).
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Ruthenium(V) Oxides from Low-Temperature Hydrothermal Synthesis, C. I. Hiley, M. R. Lees, J. M. Fisher, D. Thompsett, S. Agrestini, R. I. Smith, and R. I. Walton, Angewandte Chemie Int. Ed. 53, 4423 (2014).
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Controlling Magnetic Order and Quantum Disorder in Molecule-Based Magnets, T. Lancaster, P. A. Goddard, S. J. Blundell, F. R. Foronda, S. Ghannadzadeh, J. S. Möller, P. J. Baker, F. L. Pratt, C. Baines, L. Huang, J. Wosnitza, R. D. McDonald, K. A. Modic, J. Singleton, C. V. Topping, T. A. W. Beale, F. Xiao, J. A. Schlueter, A. M. Barton, R. D. Cabrera, K. E. Carreiro, H. E. Tran, and J. L. Manson, Physical Review Letters 112, 207201 (2014).
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Giant frictional dissipation peaks and charge-density-wave slips at the NbSe2 surface, M. Langer, M. Kisiel, R. Pawlak, F. Pellegrini, G. E. Santoro, R. Buzio, A. Gerbi, G. Balakrishnan, A. Baratoff, E. Tosatti, and E. Meyer, Nature Materials 13, 173 (2014).
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Low-energy V t(2g) orbital excitations in NdVO3, J. Laverock, B. Chen, A. R. H. Preston, D. Newby, L. F. J. Piper, L. D. Tung, G. Balakrishnan, P. A. Glans, J. H. Guo, and K. E. Smith, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 26, 455603 (2014).
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First-order magnetic transition in Yb2Ti2O7, E. Lhotel, S. R. Giblin, M. R. Lees, G. Balakrishnan, L. J. Chang, and Y. Yasui, Physical Review B 89, 224419 (2014).
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On the path to bulk FeH2: Synthesis and magnetic properties of amorphous iron (II) hydride, L. Morris, M. L. Trudeau, M. R. Lees, J. V. Hanna, D. and M. Antonelli, Journal of Alloys and Compounds 590, 199 (2014).
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Infrared phonon spectrum of the tetragonal helimagnet Ba2CuGe2O7, A. Nucara, W. S. Mohamed, L. Baldassarre, S. Koval, J. Lorenzana, R. Fittipaldi, G. Balakrishnan, A. Vecchione, and P. Calvani, Physical Review B 90, 014304 (2014).
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Magnetic susceptibility and heat capacity measurements of single crystal TbMnO3, D. O’Flynn, M. R. Lees, and G. Balakrishnan, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 26, 256002 (2014).
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Spin correlations in Ca3Co2O6 : Polarized-neutron diffraction and Monte Carlo study, J. A. M. Paddison, S. Agrestini, M. R. Lees, C. L. Fleck, P. P. Deen, A. L. Goodwin, J. R. Stewart, O. A. Petrenko, Physical Review B 90, 014411 (2014).
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Oxide heterostructures: Thin spin ice under investigation, O. Petrenko, Nature Materials 13, 430 (2014).
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Low-temperature magnetism in the honeycomb systems SrLn2O4, O. A. Petrenko, Low Temperature Physics 40, 106 (2014).
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Normal-state nodal electronic structure in underdoped high-Tc copper oxides, Suchitra E. Sebastian, N. Harrison, F. F. Balakirev, M. M. Altarawneh, P. A. Goddard, Ruixing Liang, D. A. Bonn, W. N. Hardy and G. G. Lonzarich, Nature 511, 61 (2014).
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Synthesis and characterization of nanomaterials of the Topological Crystalline Insulator SnTe, M. Saghir, M. R. Lees, S. J. York, and G. Balakrishnan, Crystal Growth & Design 14, 2009 (2014).
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Superconducting properties of Sn1-xInxTe (x = 0.38-0.45) studied using muon-spin spectroscopy, M. Saghir, J. A. T. Barker, G. Balakrishnan, A. D. Hillier, and M. R. Lees, Physical Review B 90, 064508 (2014).
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Detection of time-reversal symmetry breaking in the noncentrosymmetric superconductor Re6Zr using muon-spin spectroscopy, R. P. Singh, A. D. Hillier, B. Mazidian, J. Quintanilla, J. F. Annett, D. McK. Paul, G. Balakrishnan, and M. R. Lees, Physical Review Letters 112, 107002 (2014).
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Crystal growth and properties of the non-centrosymmetric superconductor, Ru7B3, R. P. Singh, N. A. Parzyk, M. R. Lees, D. M. Paul, and G. Balakrishnan, Journal of Crystal Growth 395, 22 (2014).
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Probing the superconducting ground state of the noncentrosymmetric superconductors CaTSi3 (T = Ir, Pt) using muon-spin relaxation and rotation, R. P. Singh, A. D. Hillier, D. Chowdhury, J. A. T. Barker, D. M. Paul, M. R. Lees, and G. Balakrishnan, Physical Review B 90, 104504 (2014).
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Investigations of the superconducting states of noncentrosymmetric LaPdSi3 and LaPtSi3, M. Smidman, A. D. Hillier, D. T. Adroja, M. R. Lees, V. K. Anand, R. P. Singh, R. I. Smith, D. M. Paul, and G. Balakrishnan, Physical Review B 89, 094509 (2014).
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Electrical transport properties of CaB6, J. Stankiewicz, J. Sese, G. Balakrishnan, and Z. Fisk, Physical Review B 90, 155128 (2014).
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Magnetic properties of geometrically frustrated SrGd2O4, O. Young, G. Balakrishnan, M. R. Lees, and O. A. Petrenko, Physical Review B 90, 094421 (2014).
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Impact of the various spin- and orbital-ordering processes on the multiferroic properties of orthovanadate DyVO3, Q. Zhang, K. Singh, C. Simon, L. D. Tung, G. Balakrishnan, and V. Hardy, Physical Review B 90, 024418 (2014).
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