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Our group aims to promote interdisciplinary interactions between scientists with research interests in Theoretical Physics, Chemistry, Material Science and Experimental Physics both within Oxford University and outside Oxford.

Quantum Materials Facilities

Contacts and booking

If you are a new user, please contact the facility manager or academic (see table here below). If you have used the facility before and want to make a new booking, clicking on the facility name will take you straight to the booking page.


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
Seamus Davis

Professor of Physics
Amalia Coldea

Associate Professor
Thorsten Hesjedal

Professor of Condensed Matter Physics
Arzhang Ardavan

Professor of Physics
Moon-Sun Nam

EPSRC Fellow
Stephen Blundell

Professor of Physics
Andrew Boothroyd

Professor of Physics
Yulin Chen

Associate Professor
Radu Coldea

Professor of Physics
Balati Kuerbanjiang

PDRA
Junjie Liu

Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Jieyi Liu

Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Keiron Murphy

Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Shuqiu Wang

Postdoctoral researcher
Dharmalingam Prabhakaran

Researcher
Pascal Reiss

Researcher
Jiahao Chen

Graduate Student
Helena Cotterill

Quantum Materials Outreach Officer & Graduate Student
Miska Elliot

Graduate Student
Kylie MacFarquharson

Graduate Student
Jakub Mrozek

Graduate Student
Ding Pei

Graduate Student
Anuradha Vibhakar

Graduate Student
Giulio Villani

Student
John Wilkinson

DPhil Student
Zachary Zajicek

Graduate Student
Gladys Lee

Undergraduate Student
Oliver Squire

Undergraduate Student
Kathryn Boast

Access Officer
Paul Goddard

Visiting Lecturer
Franz Lang

Academic Visitor
Roger Johnson

Royal Society University Research Fellow
Andrew Princep

Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Shiv Jee Singh

Research Staff
Noah Waterfield Price

Graduate Student
Shilei Zhang

PDRA

Publications

Strong in-plane anisotropy in the electronic structure of fixed-valence $β$-LuAlB$_4$
Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics American Physical Society (2020)
P Reiss, J Baglo, H Tan et al.
Persistent coherence of quantum superpositions in an optimally doped cuprate revealed by 2D spectroscopy
Science Advances American Association for the Advancement of Science 6 (2020) eaaw9932-
F Novelli, JO Tollerud, D Prabhakaran et al.
SquidLab-A user-friendly program for background subtraction and fitting of magnetization data.
The Review of scientific instruments 91 (2020) 023901-
MJ Coak, C Liu, DM Jarvis et al.
Polarizing an antiferromagnet by optical engineering of the crystal field
Nature Physics Nature Research (2020)
AS Disa, M Fechner, T Nova et al.
Strong quantum fluctuations from competition between magnetic phases in a pyrochlore iridate (vol 101, 10...
PHYSICAL REVIEW B 101 (2020) ARTN 169901
H Jacobsen, CD Dashwood, E Lhotel et al.
Super resolution convolutional neural network for feature extraction in spectroscopic data
Review of Scientific Instruments AIP Publishing 91 (2020) 033905
H Peng, X Gao, Y He et al.
Spontaneous rotation of ferrimagnetism driven by antiferromagnetic spin canting
Physical Review Letters American Physical Society 124 (2020) 127201
A Vibhakar, DD Khalyavin, P Manuel et al.
Suppression of superconductivity and enhanced critical field anisotropy in thin flakes of FeSe
npj Quantum Materials Nature Research (part of Springer Nature) (2020)
L Farrar, M Bristow, AA Haghighirad et al.
Phase-sensitive determination of nodal d-wave order parameter in single-band and multiband superconductor...
PHYSICAL REVIEW B 101 (2020) ARTN 214505
J Boeker, MA Sulangi, A Akbari et al.
Strong quantum fluctuations from competition between magnetic phases in a pyrochlore iridate
PHYSICAL REVIEW B 101 (2020) ARTN 104404
H Jacobsen, CD Dashwood, E Lhotel et al.
Approaching the quantum critical point in a highly correlated all-in-all-out antiferromagnet
PHYSICAL REVIEW B 101 (2020) ARTN 220404
Y Wang, TF Rosenbaum, D Prabhakaran et al.
Proximity-induced odd-frequency superconductivity in a topological insulator
Physical Review Letters American Physical Society (2020)
J Krieger, A Pertsova, S Giblin et al.
Quantum oscillations probe the Fermi surface topology of the nodal-line semimetal CaAgAs
Physical Review Research American Physical Society 2 (2020) 012055(R)
YH Kwan, P Reiss, Y Han et al.
Anomalous high-magnetic field electronic state of the nematic superconductors FeSe1-xSx
Phys. Rev. Research 2, 013309 (2020) (2020)
M Bristow, P Reiss, AA Haghighirad et al.
Enhancing easy-plane anisotropy in bespoke Ni(II) quantum magnets
Polyhedron 180 (2020)
JL Manson, ZE Manson, A Sargent et al.
Mode-resolved detection of magnetization dynamics using x-ray diffractive ferromagnetic resonance
Nano Letters American Chemical Society (2019)
T Hesjedal, G Van Der Laan, Y Sun et al.
Element- and Time-Resolved Measurements of Spin Dynamics Using X-ray Detected Ferromagnetic Resonance
Synchrotron Radiation News Informa UK Limited 33 (2020) 12-19
C Klewe, Q Li, M Yang et al.
Atomic-scale electronic structure of the cuprate pair density wave state coexisting with superconductivit...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 117 (2020) 14805-14811
P Choubey, SH Joo, K Fujita et al.
Imaging the energy gap modulations of the cuprate pair-density-wave state.
Nature 580 (2020) 65-70
Z Du, H Li, SH Joo et al.
Absolute crystal and magnetic chiralities in the langasite compound Ba3NbFe3Si2O14 determined by polari...
Physical Review B American Physical Society (APS) 102 (2020) 54417
N Qureshi, A Bombardi, S Picozzi et al.
Competing pairing interactions responsible for the large upper critical field in a stoichiometric iron-ba...
Physical Review B American Physical Society 101 (2020) 134502
M Bristow, W Knafo, P Reiss et al.
Direct observation of the energy gain underpinning ferromagnetic superexchange in the electronic structur...
Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics American Physical Society 101 (2020) 205125
M Watson, I Markovic, F Mazzola et al.
Resonant x-ray scattering study of diffuse magnetic scattering from the topological semimetals EuCd2As2 a...
PHYSICAL REVIEW B 102 (2020) ARTN 014408
J-R Soh, E Schierle, Y Yan et al.
Robust perpendicular skyrmions and their surface-confinement
Nano Letters American Chemical Society (2020)
S Zhang, D Burn, N Jaouen et al.
Electron beam lithography of magnetic skyrmions
Advanced Materials Wiley (2020)
Y Guang, Y Peng, Z Yan et al.
Polarizing an antiferromagnet by optical engineering of the crystal field (June, 10.1038/s41567-020-0936-...
NATURE PHYSICS (2020)
AS Disa, M Fechner, TF Nova et al.
Real-world data of high-grade lymphoma patients treated with CD19 CAR-T in the UK
BRITISH JOURNAL OF HAEMATOLOGY 189 (2020) 30-31
A Kuhnl, C Roddie, E Tholouli et al.
Kerr effect anomaly in magnetic topological insulator superlattices
Nanotechnology IOP Publishing (2020)
J Liu, A Singh, B Kuerbanjiang et al.
Momentum-resolved superconducting energy gaps of Sr2RuO4 from quasiparticle interference imaging.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 117 (2020) 5222-5227
R Sharma, SD Edkins, Z Wang et al.
Quenched nematic criticality and two superconducting domes in an iron-based superconductor under pressu...
Nature Physics 16, 89–94 (2020) Nature Research (2019)
P Reiss, D Graf, AA Haghighirad et al.
Magneto-optical Kerr switching properties of (CrI3)2 and (CrBr3/CrI3) bilayers
ACS Applied Electronic Materials American Chemical Society (2020) 0c00154
K Yang, W Hu, H Wu et al.
Exchange Bias in Magnetic Topological Insulator Superlattices
Nano Letters: a journal dedicated to nanoscience and nanotechnology American Chemical Society (2020)
T Hesjedal
Ultraviolet Photodetector Based on Mg0.67Ni0.33O Thin Film on SrTiO3
PHYSICA STATUS SOLIDI-RAPID RESEARCH LETTERS (2020) ARTN 2000175
F Sarcan, S Orchard, B Kuerbanjiang et al.
The Physics of Pair-Density Waves: Cuprate Superconductors and Beyond
ANNUAL REVIEW OF CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, VOL 11, 2020 11 (2020) 231-270
DF Agterberg, JCS Davis, SD Edkins et al.
Phase transitions for beginners
CONTEMPORARY PHYSICS (2020)
SJ Blundell
Group theory for physicists, 2nd edition
CONTEMPORARY PHYSICS (2020)
SJ Blundell
Optimization of superconducting properties of the stoichiometric CaKFe4As4
Superconductor Science and Technology IOP Press 33 (2019) 025003
SJ Singh, SJ Cassidy, M Bristow et al.
Coherent transfer of spin angular momentum by evanescent spin #Waves within Antiferromagnetic NiO
Physical Review Letters American Physical Society 124 (2020) 217201
M Dąbrowski, N Takafumi, D Burn et al.
Tailoring Hybrid Anomalous Hall Response in Engineered Magnetic Topological Insulator Heterostructures
Nano Letters: a journal dedicated to nanoscience and nanotechnology American Chemical Society (2020)
P Chen, Y Zhang, Q Yao et al.
Magnetic structure and excitations of the topological semimetal YbMnBi2
PHYSICAL REVIEW B 100 (2019) ARTN 144431
J-R Soh, H Jacobsen, B Ouladdiaf et al.
Helical magnetic ordering in thin FeGe membranes
PHYSICAL REVIEW B 100 (2019) ARTN 184403
DM Burn, SL Zhang, S Wang et al.
Coherent spin manipulation of individual atoms on a surface
Science American Association for the Advancement of Science 366 (2019) 509-512
K Yang, W Paul, S-H Phark et al.
Tailoring the topological surface state in ultrathin α -Sn(111) films
Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics American Physical Society (2019)
VA Rogalev, F Reis, F Adler et al.
Fractionalized pair density wave in the pseudogap phase of cuprate superconductors
PHYSICAL REVIEW B 100 (2019) ARTN 224511
D Chakraborty, M Grandadam, MH Hamidian et al.
High-resolution resonant inelastic x-ray scattering study of the electron-phonon coupling in honeycomb al...
PHYSICAL REVIEW B 100 (2019) ARTN 224303
J Vale, C Dashwood, E Paris et al.
Chemical tuning between triangular and honeycomb structures in a 5d spin-orbit Mott insulator
Physical Review B American Physical Society 100 (2019) 214113
R Johnson, I Broeders, K Mehlawat et al.
Magnetic and electronic structure of Dirac semimetal candidate EuMnSb2
Physical Review B American Physical Society 100 (2019) 174406
J-R Soh, P Manuel, NMB Schroeter et al.
An ideal Weyl semimetal induced by magnetic exchange
Physical review B: Condensed matter and materials physics American Physical Society 100 (2019) 201102(R)
J-R Soh, F De Juan, M Vergniory et al.
Tailoring the topological surface state in ultrathin alpha -Sn(111) films
Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics American Physical Society (2019)
VA Rogalev, F Reis, F Adler et al.
Weyl-like points from band inversions of spin-polarised surface states in NbGeSb
Nature Communications Springer Science and Business Media LLC 10 (2019) 5485
I Marković, CA Hooley, OJ Clark et al.
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