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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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