X-ray and Neutron Scattering

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The group carries out research into novel electronic, magnetic and superconducting materials, with emphasis on emergent phenomena associated with strong electronic correlations.

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Andrew Boothroyd

Professor of Physics
Prabhakaran Dharmalingam

Senior Research Associate
Peter Babkevich

Student
Stephen Gaw

DPhil Student
Alice Taylor

Graduate Student

Publications

Electric field control of chiral magnetic domains in the high-temperature multiferroic CuO
Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 85 (2012)
P Babkevich, A Poole, RD Johnson et al.
Femtosecond Dynamics of the Collinear-to-Spiral Antiferromagnetic Phase Transition in CuO
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 108 (2012) ARTN 037203
SL Johnson, RA de Souza, U Staub et al.
Dynamical matrix diagonalization for the calculation of dispersive excitations.
J Phys Condens Matter 24 (2012) 213201-
M Rotter, MD Le, AT Boothroyd et al.
Crystal growth of spin-ice pyrochlores by the floating-zone method
JOURNAL OF CRYSTAL GROWTH 318 (2011) 1053-1056
D Prabhakaran, AT Boothroyd
An hour-glass magnetic spectrum in an insulating, hole-doped antiferromagnet.
Nature 471 (2011) 341-344
AT Boothroyd, P Babkevich, D Prabhakaran et al.
Itinerant spin excitations in SrFe2As2 measured by inelastic neutron scattering
PHYS REV B 83 (2011) 214519
RA Ewings, TG Perring, J Gillett et al.
Floating-zone growth of Na(0.8-y)A(y)CoO(2) (A=Ca, Sr) single crystals
JOURNAL OF CRYSTAL GROWTH 318 (2011) 924-926
D Prabhakaran, AT Boothroyd
Circularly Polarized X Rays as a Probe of Noncollinear Magnetic Order in Multiferroic TbMnO3 (vol 102, 23...
PHYS REV LETT 106 (2011) 239902
F Fabrizi, HC Walker, L Paolasini et al.
Cu 3Nb 2O 8: A multiferroic with chiral coupling to the crystal structure
Physical Review Letters 107 (2011)
RD Johnson, S Nair, LC Chapon et al.
Low-energy quasi-one-dimensional spin dynamics in charge-ordered La2-xSrxNiO4
PHYS REV B 83 (2011) 094414
PG Freeman, D Prabhakaran, K Nakajima et al.
Photoinduced Melting of Antiferromagnetic Order in La0.5Sr1.5MnO4 Measured Using Ultrafast Resonant Soft ...
PHYS REV LETT 106 (2011) 217401
H Ehrke, RI Tobey, S Wall et al.
Observation of orbital currents in CuO.
Science 332 (2011) 696-698
V Scagnoli, U Staub, Y Bodenthin et al.
Femtoscale magnetically induced lattice distortions in multiferroic TbMnO₃.
Science 333 (2011) 1273-1276
HC Walker, F Fabrizi, L Paolasini et al.
Analysis of FeySe1-xTex thin films grown by radio frequency sputtering
SUPERCOND SCI TECH 24 (2011) 075023
SC Speller, C Aksoy, M Saydam et al.
Antiferromagnetic spin fluctuations in LiFeAs observed by neutron scattering
PHYS REV B 83 (2011) 220514
AE Taylor, MJ Pitcher, RA Ewings et al.
Bilayer manganites reveal polarons in the midst of a metallic breakdown
NATURE PHYSICS 7 (2011) 978-982
F Massee, S de Jong, Y Huang et al.
Calculation of Atomic Charge- Moment- and Current densities using McPhase, a versatile modelling suite fo...
5TH MEETING OF THE SPANISH NEUTRON SCATTERING ASSOCIATION 325 (2011)
M Rotter, MD Le, H Lewtas et al.
Spin anisotropy of the resonance peak in superconducting FeSe0.5Te0.5
PHYS REV B 83 (2011) 180506
P Babkevich, B Roessli, SN Gvasaliya et al.
Analysis of local chemical and structural inhomogeneities in FeySe1-xTex single crystals
APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS 99 (2011) ARTN 192504
SC Speller, TB Britton, G Hughes et al.
Magnetic spectrum of the two-dimensional antiferromagnet La2CoO4 studied by inelastic neutron scattering
PHYS REV B 82 (2010) 184425
P Babkevich, D Prabhakaran, CD Frost et al.
Antiferromagnetically Spin Polarized Oxygen Observed in Magnetoelectric TbMn2O5
PHYS REV LETT 105 (2010) 087203
TAW Beale, SB Wilkins, RD Johnson et al.
Tuning the superconducting and magnetic properties of FeySe0.25Te0.75 by varying the iron content
PHYS REV B 82 (2010) 212504
M Bendele, P Babkevich, S Katrych et al.
The Temperature Evolution of the Out-of-Plane Correlation Lengths of Charge-Stripe Ordered La1.725Sr0.275...
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MAGNETISM (ICM 2009) 200 (2010)
PG Freeman, NB Christensen, D Prabhakaran et al.
Resonant x-ray scattering from the 4p quadrupole moment in YVO3
PHYS REV B 82 (2010) 024105
TAW Beale, RD Johnson, Y Joly et al.
Magnetic excitations of Fe1+ySexTe1-x in magnetic and superconductive phases
J PHYS-CONDENS MAT 22 (2010) 142202
P Babkevich, M Bendele, AT Boothroyd et al.
Observed and calculated energy spectra of Bragg-forbidden reflections in YVO3
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MAGNETISM (ICM 2009) 200 (2010)
RD Johnson, TAW Beale, Y Joly et al.
Ferromagnetic excitations in La0.82Sr0.18CoO3 observed using neutron inelastic scattering
PHYS REV B 82 (2010) 144401
RA Ewings, PG Freeman, M Enderle et al.
Soft x-ray diffraction from lattice constrained orbital order in Pr(Sr0.1Ca0.9)(2)Mn2O7
POLARIZED NEUTRONS AND SYNCHROTRON X-RAYS FOR MAGNETISM CONFERENCE 2009 211 (2010)
TAW Beale, SR Bland, RD Johnson et al.
Magnetic excitations in multiferroic LuMnO3 studied by inelastic neutron scattering
PHYS REV B 82 (2010) 184420
HJ Lewtas, AT Boothroyd, M Rotter et al.
X-ray resonant scattering study of the incommensurate charge-orbital density wave in La2-2xSr1+2xMn2O7 (x...
POLARIZED NEUTRONS AND SYNCHROTRON X-RAYS FOR MAGNETISM CONFERENCE 2009 211 (2010)
TAW Beale, SR Bland, PD Hatton et al.
Nonthermal Melting of Orbital Order in La1/2Sr3/2MnO4 by Coherent Excitation of a Mn-O Stretching Mode
ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA XVI 92 (2009) 182-184
RI Tobey, D Prabhakaran, AT Boothroyd et al.
Nature of the Magnetic Order and Origin of Induced Ferroelectricity in TbMnO3
PHYS REV LETT 103 (2009) 207602
SB Wilkins, TR Forrest, TAW Beale et al.
Determining Crystal Field Distortions of YVO3 though X-ray Scattering
MAGNETISM AND MAGNETIC MATERIALS 152-153 (2009) 147-148
TAW Beale, RD Johnson, SR Bland et al.
Circularly Polarized X Rays as a Probe of Noncollinear Magnetic Order in Multiferroic TbMnO3
PHYS REV LETT 102 (2009) 237205
F Fabrizi, HC Walker, L Paolasini et al.
Structural studies on Na0.75CoO2 thermoelectric material at high pressures
SOLID STATE COMMUN 149 (2009) 1712-1716
RS Kumar, S Rekhi, D Prabhakaran et al.
Inward dispersion of the spin excitation spectrum of stripe-ordered La2NiO4+delta
PHYS REV B 80 (2009) 144523
PG Freeman, M Enderle, SM Hayden et al.
Ultrafast coupling between light, coherent lattice vibrations, and the magnetic structure of semicovalent...
Phys Rev Lett 103 (2009) 097402-
S Wall, D Prabhakaran, AT Boothroyd et al.
High-resolution hard x-ray photoemission investigation of La2-2xSr1+2xMn2O7 (0.30 <= x < 0.50)
PHYS REV B 80 (2009) 205108
S de Jong, F Massee, Y Huang et al.
X-ray resonant scattering study of the magnetic phase diagram of multiferroic TbMnO3
PHYSICA B 404 (2009) 3264-3266
HC Walker, RA Ewings, F Fabrizi et al.
Thermally induced rotation of 3d orbital stripes in Pr(Sr0.1Ca0.9)(2)Mn2O7
PHYS REV B 79 (2009) 054433
TAW Beale, SR Bland, RD Johnson et al.
Coherent Orbital Waves in Manganites
ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA XVI 92 (2009) 170-172
S Wall, D Polli, M Rini et al.
Magnetic order and dynamics of the charge-ordered antiferromagnet La1.5Sr0.5CoO4
Phys Rev B AIP 80 (2009) 134414
LM Helme, AT Boothroyd, R Coldea et al.
Going beyond the dipole approximation to improve the refinement of magnetic structures by neutron diffrac...
PHYS REV B 79 (2009) 140405
M Rotter, AT Boothroyd
Crystal-to-stripe reordering of sodium ions in NaxCoO2 (x >= 0.75)
PHYS REV B 79 (2009) 100103
DJP Morris, M Roger, MJ Gutmann et al.
Low-temperature interactions of magnetic excitons in LaCoO3
PHYS REV B 79 (2009) 174410
SR Giblin, I Terry, D Prabhakaran et al.
Magnetic Coulomb phase in the spin ice Ho2Ti2O7.
Science 326 (2009) 415-417
T Fennell, PP Deen, AR Wildes et al.
Coexistence of incommensurate magnetism and superconductivity in Fe(1+y)SexTe(1-x)
PHYS REV B 80 (2009) 140511
R Khasanov, M Bendele, A Amato et al.
X-ray resonant diffraction study of multiferroic DyMn2O5
PHYS REV B 77 (2008) 104415
RA Ewings, AT Boothroyd, DF McMorrow et al.
Structure and superconductivity of LiFeAs
CHEM COMMUN (2008) 5918-5920
MJ Pitcher, DR Parker, P Adamson et al.
Spin reorientation and glassy dynamics in La1.55Sr0.45NiO4
PHYS REV B 78 (2008) 184423
SR Giblin, PG Freeman, K Hradil et al.
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