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Facility	Contact	Phone
Materials Characterisation (PPMS MPMS)	Dr Prabhakaran Damalingham	72270
X-ray Crystallography	Prof. Paolo G. Radaelli	70957
JEOL e-beam	Paul Pattison	73422
Nanofabrication	Dr Jason Brown	72392
High Magnetic Field Facility	Dr Paul Goddard	72370

People

Paolo Radaelli

Dr Lee`s Professor of Experimental Philosophy
Amalia Coldea

EPSRC Career Acceleration Fellow
Thorsten Hesjedal

Professor of Condensed Matter Physics
Arzhang Ardavan

Professor of Physics
Roger Johnson

Royal Society University Research Fellow
Moon-Sun Nam

EPSRC Fellow
Stephen Blundell

Professor of Physics
Andrew Boothroyd

Professor of Physics
Yulin Chen

Associate Professor
Radu Coldea

Professor of Physics
Franz Lang

Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Pascal Reiss

Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Noah Waterfield Price

Graduate Student
Shilei Zhang

PDRA
Dharmalingam Prabhakaran

Researcher
Jiahao Chen

Graduate Student
Nathaniel Davies

Graduate Student
Liam Duffy

DPhil Student
Franziska Kirschner

Graduate Student
David Macdougal

Graduate Student
Richard Morris

Graduate Student
Jakub Mrozek

Graduate Student
Ding Pei

Graduate Student
Craig Topping

Graduate Student
Anuradha Vibhakar

Graduate Student
Kathryn Boast

Quantum Materials Outreach Officer
Benjamin Heathcote Williams

Long Term Visitor
Paul Goddard

Visiting Lecturer
Danielle Kaminski

Long Term Visitor
Andrew Princep

Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Nicholas Shannon

Academic Visitor
Friedrich Wondre

Long Term Visitor

Publications

Measurement of the bulk and surface bands in Dirac line-node semimetal ZrSiS
CHINESE PHYSICS B 27 (2018) ARTN 017105
G-H Hong, C-W Wang, J Jiang et al.
Static and Fluctuating Magnetic Moments in the Ferroelectric Metal LiOsO3
JPS Conference Proceedings 21 (2018)
FKK Kirschner, F Lang, FL Pratt et al.
Nodal multigap superconductivity in KCa2Fe4As4F2
Physical Review B 97 (2018) 060509(R)
M Smidman, FKK Kirschner, DT Adroja et al.
Multi-band magnetotransport in exfoliated thin films of CuxBi2Se3
Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2018 Institute of Physics Publishing (2018)
JA Alexander-Webber, J Huang, J Beilsten-Edmands et al.
Implications of bond disorder in a S=1 kagome lattice.
Scientific reports 8 (2018) 4745-4745
JL Manson, J Brambleby, PA Goddard et al.
Probing α-RuCl_{3} Beyond Magnetic Order: Effects of Temperature and Magnetic Field.
Physical review letters 120 (2018) 077203-
SM Winter, K Riedl, D Kaib et al.
Extreme Sensitivity of a Topochemical Reaction to Cation Substitution
Inorganic chemistry 57 (2018) 2890-2898
M Amano Patino, D Zeng, SJ Blundell et al.
LaSr3 NiRuO4 H4 : A 4d Transition-Metal Oxide-Hydride Containing Metal Hydride Sheets.
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) (2018)
L Jin, M Lane, D Zeng et al.
Comparative study of the magnetic properties of La3Ni2B ' O-9 for B ' = Nb, Ta or Sb
JOURNAL OF SOLID STATE CHEMISTRY 258 (2018) 825-834
C-M Chin, PD Battle, SJ Blundell et al.
Real-Space Observation of Skyrmionium in a Ferromagnet-Magnetic Topological Insulator Heterostructure.
Nano letters ACS 18 (2018) 1057-1063
S Zhang, F Kronast, G van der Laan et al.
High-Pressure Synthesis, Structures, and Properties of Trivalent A-Site-Ordered Quadruple Perovskites RMn...
Inorganic chemistry 57 (2018) 5987-5998
L Zhang, N Terada, RD Johnson et al.
Coupling between Spin and Charge Order Driven by Magnetic Field in Triangular Ising System LuFe2O4+delta
CRYSTALS 8 (2018) ARTN 88
L Ding, F Orlandi, DD Khalyavin et al.
Direct Observation of Twisted Surface skyrmions in Bulk Crystals
Physical Review Letters 120 (2018)
SL Zhang, G Van Der Laan, WW Wang et al.
Ab initio calculation of spin fluctuation spectra using time-dependent density functional perturbation th...
PHYSICAL REVIEW B 97 (2018) ARTN 024420
K Cao, H Lambert, PG Radaelli et al.
Observation of topological surface states and strong electron/hole imbalance in extreme magnetoresistance...
PHYSICAL REVIEW MATERIALS 2 (2018) ARTN 024201
J Jiang, NBM Schroter, S-C Wu et al.
Investigation of a Spin Transition in a LaCoO3 Single Crystal by the Method of X-Ray Magnetic Circular Di...
PHYSICS OF THE SOLID STATE 60 (2018) 288-291
VV Sikolenko, IO Troyanchuk, DV Karpinsky et al.
Breaking Symmetry with Light: Ultra-Fast Ferroelectricity and Magnetism from Three-Phonon Coupling
Physical review B: Condensed matter and materials physics American Physical Society (2018)
PG Radaelli
Author Correction: How to probe the spin contribution to momentum relaxation in topological insulators.
Nature communications 9 (2018) 729-
M-S Nam, BH Williams, Y Chen et al.
Ab initio calculation of spin fluctuation spectra using time dependent density functional perturbation th...
Physical review B: Condensed matter and materials physics American Physical Society (2018)
F Giustino, K Cao, P Radaelli
How to probe the spin contribution to momentum relaxation in topological insulators (vol 8, 2017)
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS 9 (2018) ARTN 729
M-S Nam, BH Willams, Y Chen et al.
Author Correction: How to probe the spin contribution to momentum relaxation in topological insulators.
Nat Commun 9 (2018) 729-
M-S Nam, BH Williams, Y Chen et al.
Electronic structure and enhanced charge-density wave order of monolayer VSe<sub>2</sub>
Nano Letters (2018)
J Feng, D Biswas, A Rajan et al.
Microscopic effects of Dy doping in the topological insulator Bi2Te3
PHYSICAL REVIEW B 97 (2018) ARTN 174427
LB Duffy, N-J Steinke, JA Krieger et al.
Surface Structure and Reconstructions of HgTe (111) Surfaces
CHINESE PHYSICS LETTERS 35 (2018) ARTN 026802
X-Y Yang, G-Y Wang, C-X Zhao et al.
Two-gap superconductivity with line nodes in CsCa2Fe4As4F2
PHYSICAL REVIEW B 97 (2018) ARTN 060506
FKK Kirschner, DT Adroja, Z-C Wang et al.
Magnetic edge states and coherent manipulation of graphene nanoribbons.
Nature 557 (2018) 691-695
M Slota, A Keerthi, WK Myers et al.
Reciprocal space tomography of 3D skyrmion lattice order in a chiral magnet.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 115 (2018) 6386-6391
S Zhang, G van der Laan, J Müller et al.
Imposing long-range ferromagnetic order in rare-earth-doped magnetic topological-insulator heterostructur...
PHYSICAL REVIEW MATERIALS 2 (2018) ARTN 054201
LB Duffy, A Frisk, DM Burn et al.
Observation of magnetic vortex pairs at room temperature in a planar α-Fe2O3/Co heterostructure
Nature Materials Nature Publishing Group (2018)
FP Chmiel, N Waterfield Price, RD Johnson et al.
Proposal for the detection of magnetic monopoles in spin ice via nanoscale magnetometry
PHYSICAL REVIEW B 97 (2018) ARTN 140402
FKK Kirschner, F Flicker, A Yacoby et al.
Endohedral Metallofullerene as Molecular High Spin Qubit: Diverse Rabi Cycles in Gd2@C79N.
Journal of the American Chemical Society 140 (2018) 1123-1130
Z Hu, B-W Dong, Z Liu et al.
Tracking a hysteretic and disorder-broadened phase transition via the electromagnon response in improper ...
JOURNAL OF PHYSICS D-APPLIED PHYSICS 51 (2018) ARTN 084002
CDW Mosley, D Prabhakaran, J Lloyd-Hughes
The key ingredients of the electronic structure of FeSe
Annual Reviews of Condensed Matter Physics, Vol. 9, 125-146, 2018 (2018)
AI Coldea, MD Watson
Spin dynamics and exchange interactions in CuO measured by neutron scattering
PHYSICAL REVIEW B 97 (2018) ARTN 144401
H Jacobsen, SM Gaw, AJ Princep et al.
Manipulation of skyrmion motion by magnetic field gradients.
Nature Communications 9 (2018) 2115-
SL Zhang, WW Wang, DM Burn et al.
How to probe the spin contribution to momentum relaxation in topological insulators.
Nature communications 9 (2018) 56-
M-S Nam, BH Williams, Y Chen et al.
Folded superstructure and degeneracy-enhanced band gap in the weak-coupling charge density wave system 2H...
PHYSICAL REVIEW B 97 (2018) ARTN 115118
YW Li, J Jiang, HF Yang et al.
Comparative study of the magnetic properties of La<inf>3</inf>Ni<inf>2</inf>B′O<inf>9</inf>for B′ = Nb, T...
Journal of Solid State Chemistry 258 (2018) 825-834
CM Chin, PD Battle, SJ Blundell et al.
Topological surface state of α-Sn on InSb(001) as studied by photoemission
Physical review B: Condensed matter and materials physics American Physical Society 97 (2018) 075101
MR Scholz, L Dudy, F Reis et al.
Crossover from lattice to plasmonic polarons of a spin-polarised electron gas in ferromagnetic EuO.
Nature communications 9 (2018) 2305-
JM Riley, F Caruso, C Verdi et al.
Photoemission study of the electronic structure of valence band convergent SnSe
PHYSICAL REVIEW B 96 (2017) ARTN 165118
CW Wang, YYY Xia, Z Tian et al.
Codoping of Sb2Te3 thin films with V and Cr
PHYSICAL REVIEW MATERIALS 1 (2017) ARTN 064409
LB Duffy, AI Figueroa, G van der Laan et al.
Correction to Step-Flow Growth of Bi 2 Te 3 Nanobelts
Crystal Growth & Design 17 (2017) 1438-1438
P Schönherr, T Tilbury, H Wang et al.
Low-field spin dynamics of Cr7Ni and Cr7Ni-Cu-Cr7Ni molecular rings as detected by mu SR
PHYSICAL REVIEW B 96 (2017) ARTN 184403
S Sanna, P Arosio, L Bordonali et al.
Terahertz spectroscopy of anisotropic materials using beams with rotatable polarization.
Scientific reports 7 (2017) 12337-
CDW Mosley, M Failla, D Prabhakaran et al.
Quantum spin Hall state in monolayer 1T '-WTe2
NATURE PHYSICS 13 (2017) 683-+
S Tang, C Zhang, D Wong et al.
Local magnetism and spin dynamics of the frustrated honeycomb rhodate Li2RhO3
PHYSICAL REVIEW B 96 (2017) ARTN 094432
P Khuntia, S Manni, FR Foronda et al.
Adiabatic physics of an exchange-coupled spin-dimer system
PHYSICAL REVIEW B 95 (2017) ARTN 024404
J Brambleby, PA Goddard, J Singleton et al.
Nontrivial Berry phase and type-II Dirac transport in the layered material PdTe2
PHYSICAL REVIEW B 96 (2017) ARTN 041201
F Fei, X Bo, R Wang et al.
Magnetic Field Dependence of Excitations Near Spin-Orbital Quantum Criticality.
Physical review letters 118 (2017) 067205-
A Biffin, C Rüegg, J Embs et al.
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