Group activities

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
Stephen Blundell

Professor of Physics
Andrew Boothroyd

Professor of Physics
Yulin Chen

Professor of Physics
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
Qizheng Li

DPhil student of Condensed Matter Physics
Kylie MacFarquharson

Graduate Student
Archie Morfoot

DPhil Condensed Matter
Jakub Mrozek

Graduate Student
Ding Pei

Graduate Student
Hiroto Takahashi

Graduate Student
Anuradha Vibhakar

Graduate Student
Giulio Villani

Student
John Wilkinson

DPhil Student
Hank Wu

DPhil Condensed Matter Physics
Zachary Zajicek

Graduate Student
Oliver Squire

Undergraduate Student
Kathryn Boast

Access Officer
Moon-Sun Nam

EPSRC Fellow
Paul Goddard

Visiting Lecturer
Roger Johnson

Royal Society University Research Fellow
Andrew Princep

Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Shiv Jee Singh

Research Staff
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.
Controlling spin current polarization through non-collinear antiferromagnetism.
Nature communications 11 (2020) 4671-
T Nan, CX Quintela, J Irwin 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.
Low-temperature thermal transport measurements of oxygen-annealed Yb2Ti2O7
PHYSICAL REVIEW B 102 (2020) ARTN 014434
WH Toews, JA Reid, JD Thompson 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.
Information and Decoherence in a Muon-Fluorine Coupled System
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 125 (2020) 87201
J Wilkinson, S Blundell
Magnetic Skyrmions
MagNews (2020) 19-21
G van der Laan, T Hesjedal
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.
Skyrmions getting an X-ray
MagNews UK Magnetics Society (2020) 22-22
S Zhang, T Hesjedal, G van der Laan
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 125 (2020) 026802
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.
Photo-molecular high temperature superconductivity
Physical Review X American Physical Society 10 (2020) 031028
M Buzzi, D Nicoletti, M Fechner 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.
Depth-resolved magnetization dynamics revealed by x-ray reflectometry ferromagnetic resonance
Physical Review Letters American Physical Society (2020)
D Burn, S Zhang, G Yu 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.
Magnetic skyrmion interactions in the micromagnetic framework
Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics American Physical Society 101 (2020) 134422
R Brearton, G van der Laan, T Hesjedal
2D photocatalysts with tuneable supports for enhanced photocatalytic water splitting
Materials Today Elsevier (2020)
Y Li, S Wu, J Zheng et al.
Emergent helical texture of electric dipoles
Science American Association for the Advancement of Science 369 (2020) 680-684
D Khalyavin, R Johnson, F Orlandi 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.
Glide symmetry breaking and Ising criticality in the quasi-1D magnet CoNb2O6
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences National Academy of Sciences 117 (2020) 25219-25224
M Fava, R Coldea, S Ashok Parameswaran
Kerr effect anomaly in magnetic topological insulator superlattices
Nanotechnology IOP Publishing 31 (2020) 434001
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.
Magneto-optical Kerr switching properties of (CrI3)2 and (CrBr3/CrI3) bilayers
ACS Applied Electronic Materials American Chemical Society 2 (2020) 1373-1380
K Yang, W Hu, H Wu et al.
Exchange bias in magnetic topological insulator superlattices
Nano Letters American Chemical Society (2020)
J Liu, A Singh, T Hesjedal et al.
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.
Origin of the large ferroelectric polarization enhancement under high pressure for multiferroic DyMnO3 st...
PHYSICAL REVIEW B 102 (2020) ARTN 085131
N Terada, N Qureshi, A Stunault 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
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.
Observation of a neutron spin resonance in the bilayered superconductor CsCa2Fe4As4F2.
Journal of physics. Condensed matter : an Institute of Physics journal 32 (2020) 435603-
DT Adroja, SJ Blundell, F Lang 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.
Dynamic spin fluctuations in the frustrated A-site spinel CuAl2O4
PHYSICAL REVIEW B 102 (2020) ARTN 014439
H Cho, R Nirmala, J Jeong et al.
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