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Pyrochlores exhibit a rich variety of exotic physical properties including fractionalization, topological order and emergent magnetic monopoles in the classical spin ices, and a...

Sr2RuO4 is an unconventional superconductor below ~1.5 K while its sister compound Ca2RuO4 is a Mott insulator and antiferromagnetic below ~110 K. The rich phenomena in the...

We have synthesized and characterized a new member, namely Fe2V2O7 in the family of 3d transition metal pyrovanadate M2V2O7 (M =Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu). M2V2O7 exist with a great...

The compound Ca3Co2O6 is considered to be a model system for the triangular latticeantiferromagnets. Ferromagneticintrachain and antiferromagnetic interchain interactions,...

Recent investigations of physical properties of ACo2As2 (A = Ca, Sr, Ba) indicate that Co-based arsenides could be a potential parent compound like the parent AFe2As2. While...

The family of manganese antiperovskites with the formula Mn3+xT1-xN (T = Sn, Ni, Ga..) have recently attracted much attention due to the range of interesting properties they...

It has recently been discovered than the rutile phase of zinc fluoride shows negative thermal expansion along all three crystallographic axes. What is highly unusual about this...

The Ti-V system has recently been recognised as a potential for producing new superconducting magnets, as well as high quality resonances in superconducting RF cavities. The...

Several distinct families of layered perovskites have been shown experimentally to display ferroelectricity. The most recent of these is the Dion-Jacobson (DJ) family, typified...

The proposal requests time to investigate the powder averaged spin fluctuations in a high spin=5/2 triangular magnet MnSb2O6. This investigation will be an important first step...

This proposal is part of our research programme to explore the effects of frustrated interactions and quantum fluctuation on the spin dynamics in quantum magnets. Here we plan...

TRIP steels are alloys commonly used in the automotive industry for its capacity to change crystallographic phase when deformed. This change gives the material outstanding...

Geometrically frustrated magnetic systems have been widely studied in the search for novel quantum states of matter. The fcc lattice Ba2YMoO6 has been shown to be a valence bond...

This proposal is part of our project to investigate the unusual physics of 5d transition metal oxides. In particular, we are studying two samples of the chemical composition...

This proposal aims to measure the induced magnetic moment in graphene arising from the proximity effect in the vicinity of ferromagnetic substrates using Polarised Neutron...

In a typical magnetic material the interactions between neighbouring magnetic moments will tend to lead to their ordered alignment throughout the entire structure as it is...

Y-Ni based compounds are quite interesting materials as far as their magnetic ground states are concerned. As a function of Y concentration, the compounds show both weak...

Na-ion-batteries (NIB) are one of the most promising candidates for future low-cost energy-storage technologies. Due to the large size of Na ions, conventional anode materials...

One of the most studied skyrmion-hosting materials is the magnetoelectric insulator Cu2OSeO3 which raises the exciting prospect of manipulating the skyrmion-phase through the...

The charge transfer compound CuTCNQ (TCNQ = 7,7,8,8-Tetracyanoquinodimethane) exhibits switching between two electrical resistance states when subject to an electric field. It...