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We propose a suitable explanation for Germanium Tin epitaxial heterostructures temperature-dependent photoluminescence that is based upon the so far disregarded optical activity of dislocations.

Collaboration between the the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, University of Birmingham and the Warwick XPS Facility has studied the evolution of surface chemistry and the associated wettability of laser-patterned aluminum alloys under abient conditions.

New results from the T2K experiment, in which Warwick is a key collaborator, have strengthened previous hints of a difference in the behaviour of neutrinos and antineutrinos . Neutrinos and antineutrinos come in three types (or flavours) and are capable of changing flavour as they travel from source to detector in a process known as 'flavour oscillations'. The recent analysis indicates that neutrinos and antineutrinos flavour oscillate with different probabilities. These results will help us shed light on the question of why the universe is dominated by matter, with very little observed antimatter.

It is important to understand the fundamental physics of rare-earth transition-metal magnets, which are used in much of today’s technology, so that new materials can be identified which will reduce our dependence on the economically-volatile and environmentally-damaging rare earths. A recurring challenge is how to make the connection between what is measured in the lab, and what is happening in the material itself at the atomic level, i.e. the behaviour of individual electrons and nuclei. In this collaborative work [C E Patrick, S Kumar et al., Phys. Rev. Materials 1, 02411 (2017)] between theorists and experimentalists based at Warwick and STFC Daresbury, we use “first-principles” computational modelling to explain experimental measurements on the magnetic materials YCo₅ and GdCo₅.