Publication Highlights

Local Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interactions Driving Quasi-2D Magnetism in a Centrosymmetric Nanoskyrmion Material,

S. H. Moody, P. J. Bereciartua, S. Francoual, M. T. Littlehales, M. N. Wilson, M. Gomilšek, M. T. Birch, D. A. MayohLink opens in a new window, G. BalakrishnanLink opens in a new window, and P. D. Hatton,

Physical Review Letters 135, 076706 (2025).

Spin dynamics in the Dirac U(1) spin liquid YbZn₂GaO₅,

H. C. H. Wu, F. L. Pratt, B. M. Huddart, D. Chatterjee, P. A. GoddardLink opens in a new window, J. Singleton, D. Prabhakaran, and S. J. Blundell,

Physical Review Letters 135, 046704 (2025).

Deterministic control of nanomagnetic spiral trajectories using an electric field,

S. H. Moody, M. T. Littlehales, D. A. MayohLink opens in a new window, G. BalakrishnanLink opens in a new window, D. Alba Venero, P. D. Hatton, and J. S. White,

Nature Communications 16, 5269 (2025).

A resonant valence bond spin liquid in the dilute limit of doped frustrated Mott insulators,

C. Glittum, A. Štrkalj, D. Prabhakaran, P. A. GoddardLink opens in a new window, C. D. Batista, C. Castelnovo,

Nature Physics DOI 10.1038/s41567-025-02923-8 (2025).

A magnon band analysis of GdRu₂Si₂ in the field-polarized state,

G. D. A. WoodLink opens in a new window, J. R. Stewart, D. A. MayohLink opens in a new window, J. A. M. Paddison, J. Bouaziz, S. M. Tobin, O. A. PetrenkoLink opens in a new window, M. R. LeesLink opens in a new window, P. Manuel, J. B. Staunton, and G. BalakrishnanLink opens in a new window,

npj Quantum Materials 10, 39 (2025).

Satisfaction and violation of the fluctuation-dissipation relation in spin ice materials,

F. Morineau, V. Cathelin, P. C. W. Holdsworth, S. R. Giblin, G. BalakhrishnanLink opens in a new window, K. Matsuhira, C. Paulsen and E. Lhotel,

Physical Review Letters 134, 096702 (2025).

Anisotropic skyrmion and multi-q spin dynamics in centrosymmetric Gd₂PdSi₃,

M. Gomilšek, T. J. Hicken, M. N. Wilson, K. J. A. Franke, B. M. Huddart, A.StefančičLink opens in a new window, S. J. R. HoltLink opens in a new window, G. BalakrishnanLink opens in a new window, D. A. MayohLink opens in a new window, M. T. Birch, S. H. Moody, H. Luetkens, Z. Guguchia, M. T. F. Telling, P. J. Baker, S. J. Clark, and T. Lancaster,

Physical Review Letters 134, 046702 (2025).

Charge doping into spin minority states mediates doubling of T_C in ferromagnetic CrGeTe₃,

L. Trzaska, L. Qiao, M. D. Watson, M. C. HatneanLink opens in a new window, I. Markovic, E. A. Morales, T. Antonelli, C. Cacho, G. BalakrishnanLink opens in a new window, W. Ren, S. Picozzi and P. D. C. King,

npj 2D Materials and Applications 9, 4 (2025).

Multiphase superconductivity in PdBi₂,

L. Powell, W. J. Kuang, G. Hawkins-Pottier, R. Jalil, J. Birkbeck, Z. Y. Jiang, M. Kim, Y. C. Zou, S. Komrakova, S. Haigh, I. Timokhin, G. BalakrishnanLink opens in a new window, A. K. Geim, N. Walet, A. Principi and I. V. Grigorieva,

Nature Communications 16, 291 (2025).

Soft X-ray phase nanomicroscopy of micrometer-thick magnets,

J. Neethirajan, B. J. Daurer, M. D. P. Martínez, A. Hrabec, L. Turnbull, R. Yamamoto, M. R. Ferreira, A. StefančičLink opens in a new window, D. A. MayohLink opens in a new window, G. BalakrishnanLink opens in a new window, Z. Pei, P. Xue, L. Chang, E. Ringe, R. Harrison, S. Valencia, M. Kazemian, B. Kaulich, and C. Donnelly,

Physical Review X 14, 031028 (2024).

 Ferroelastic control of magnetic domain structure: Direct imaging by magnetic force microscopy,

S. D. Seddon, C. R. S. Haines, T. P. A. Hase, M. R. LeesLink opens in a new window, L. M. Eng, M. Alexe, and M. A. Carpenter,

Physical Review B 110, L060404 (2024).

Magnetotransport of Sm₂Ir₂O₇ across the pressure-induced quantum-critical phase boundary,

M. J. CoakLink opens in a new window, K. GotzeLink opens in a new window, T. Northam De La Fuente, C. Castelnovo, J. P. Tidey, J. Singleton, A. T. Boothroyd, D. Prabhakaran, and P. A. GoddardLink opens in a new window,

npj Quantum Materials 9, 17 (2024).

Double-Q ground state with topological charge stripes in the centrosymmetric skyrmion candidate GdRu₂Si₂,

G. D. A. WoodLink opens in a new window, D. D. Khalyavin, D. A. MayohLink opens in a new window, J. Bouaziz, A. E. Hall, S. J. R. HoltLink opens in a new window, F. Orlandi, P. Manuel, S. Blügel, J. B. Staunton, O. A. Petrenko, M. R. LeesLink opens in a new window, G. BalakrishnanLink opens in a new window,

Physical Review B 107, L180402 (2023).

Giant valley-Zeeman coupling in the surface layer of an intercalated transition metal dichalcogenide,

B. Edwards, O. Dowinton, A. E. HallLink opens in a new window, P. A. E. Murgatroyd, S. Buchberger, T. Antonelli, G. R. Siemann, A. Rajan, E. A. Morales, A. Zivanovic, C. Bigi, R. V. Belosludov, C. M. Polley, D. Carbone, D. A. MayohLink opens in a new window, G. BalakrishnanLink opens in a new window, M. S. Bahramy, and P. D. C. King,

Nature Materials 22, 459 (2023).

Quantum muon diffusion and the preservation of time-reversal symmetry in the superconducting state of type-I rhenium,

D. G. C. JonasLink opens in a new window, P. K. BiswasLink opens in a new window, A. D. Hillier, D. A. MayohLink opens in a new window, and M. R. LeesLink opens in a new window,

Physical Review B 105, L020503 (2022).

Toggle-like current-induced Bloch point dynamics of 3D skyrmion strings in a room temperature nanowire,

M. T. Birch, D. Cortés-Ortuño, K. Litzius, S. Wintz, F. Schulz, M. Weigand, A. StefančičLink opens in a new window, D. A. MayohLink opens in a new window, G. BalakrishnanLink opens in a new window, P. D. Hatton, G. Schütz,

Nature Communications 13, 3630 (2022).

Fermi surface in magnetic field-induced metallic YbB₁₂

H. Liu, A. J. Hickey, M. Hartstein, A. J. Davies, A. G. Eaton, T. Elvin, E. Polyakov, T. H. Vu, V. Wichitwechkarn, T. Forster, J. Wosnitza, T. P. Murphy, N. Shitsevalova, M. D. Johannes, M. C. HatneanLink opens in a new window, G. BalakrishnanLink opens in a new window, G. G. Lonzarich, S. E. Sebastian,

npj Quantum Materials 7, 12 (2022).

Fermi surface transformation at the pseudogap critical point of a cuprate superconductor,

Y. Fang, G. Grissonnanche, A. Legros, S. Verret, F. Laliberté, C. Collignon, A. Ataei, M. Dion, J. Zhou, D. Graf, M. J. Lawler, P. A. GoddardLink opens in a new window, L. Taillefer, B. J. Ramshaw,

Nature Physics 18, 558 (2022).

Seeding and emergence of composite Skyrmions in a van der Waals magnet,

L. Powalla, M. T. Birch, K. Litzius, S. Wintz, F. S. Yasin, L. A. Turnbull, F. Schulz, D. A. MayohLink opens in a new window, G. BalakrishnanLink opens in a new window, M. Weigand, X. Yu, K. Kern, G. Schütz, M. Burghard,

Advanced Materials 35, 2208930 (2023).

Magnetic monopole density and antiferromagnetic domain control in spin-ice iridates,

M. J. PearceLink opens in a new window, K. GotzeLink opens in a new window, A. Szabó, T. S. Sikkenk, M. R. LeesLink opens in a new window, A. T. Boothroyd, D. Prabhakaran, C. Castelnovo, and P. A. GoddardLink opens in a new window,

Nature Communications 13, 444 (2022).

Suppressed-moment 2-k order in the canonical frustrated antiferromagnet Gd₂Ti₂O₇,

A. M. Paddison, G. Ehlers, A. B. Cairns, J. S. Gardner, O. A. PetrenkoLink opens in a new window, N. P. Butch, D. D. Khalyavin, P. Manuel, H. E. Fischer, H. D. Zhou, A. L. Goodwin, and J. R. Stewart,

npj Quantum Materials 6, 99 (2021).

Linear-in temperature resistivity from an isotropic Planckian scattering rate,

G. Grissonnanche, Y. Fang, A. Legros, S. Verret, F. Laliberté, C. Collignon, J. Zhou, D. Graf, P. A. Goddard, L. Taillefer, and B. J. Ramshaw,

Nature 595, 667 (2021).

Spin Dynamics and Unconventional Coulomb Phase in Nd₂Zr₂O₇,

M. Léger, E. Lhotel, M. Ciomaga Hatnean, J. Ollivier, A. R. Wildes, S. Raymond, E. Ressouche, G. Balakrishnan, and S. Petit,

Physical Review Letters 126, 247201 (2021).