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Impact and mitigation of spectroscopic systematics on DESI DR1 clustering measurements (2025)
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Krolewski, A., Yu, J., Ross, A. J., Penmetsa, S., Percival, W. J., Zhou, R., Wilson, M. J., Hou, J., Aguilar, J., Ahlen, S., Brooks, D., Chaussidon, E., Claybaugh, T., de la Macorra, A., Dey, B., Forero-Romero, J. E., Gontcho, S. G. A., Guy, J., Honscheid, K., Juneau, S., …Zhao, C. (2025). Impact and mitigation of spectroscopic systematics on DESI DR1 clustering measurements. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2025, Article 147. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2025/01/147

The large scale structure catalogs within DESI Data Release 1 (DR1) use nearly 6 million galaxies and quasars as tracers of the large-scale structure of the universe to measure the expansion history with baryon acoustic oscillations and the growth of... Read More about Impact and mitigation of spectroscopic systematics on DESI DR1 clustering measurements.

Anisotropic Skyrmion and Multi-q Spin Dynamics in Centrosymmetric Gd2PdSi3 (2025)
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Gomilšek, M., Hicken, T., Wilson, M., Franke, K., Huddart, B., Štefančič, A., Holt, S., Balakrishnan, G., Mayoh, D., Birch, M., Moody, S., Luetkens, H., Guguchia, Z., Telling, M., Baker, P., Clark, S., & Lancaster, T. (2025). Anisotropic Skyrmion and Multi-q Spin Dynamics in Centrosymmetric Gd2PdSi3. Physical Review Letters, 134(4), Article 046702. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.134.046702

Skyrmions are particlelike vortices of magnetization with nontrivial topology, which are usually stabilized by Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions (DMI) in noncentrosymmetric bulk materials. Exceptions are centrosymmetric Gd- and Eu-based skyrmion-lat... Read More about Anisotropic Skyrmion and Multi-q Spin Dynamics in Centrosymmetric Gd2PdSi3.

Demonstration of Controlled Skyrmion Injection Across a Thickness Step (2024)
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Littlehales, M. T., Moody, S. H., Turnbull, L. A., Huddart, B. M., Brereton, B. A., Balakrishnan, G., Fan, R., Steadman, P., Hatton, P. D., & Wilson, M. N. (2024). Demonstration of Controlled Skyrmion Injection Across a Thickness Step. Nano Letters, 24(22), 6813-6820. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.4c01605

Spintronic devices incorporating magnetic skyrmions have attracted significant interest recently. Such devices traditionally focus on controlling magnetic textures in 2D thin films. However, enhanced performance of spintronic properties through the e... Read More about Demonstration of Controlled Skyrmion Injection Across a Thickness Step.

Probing the magnetic polaron state in the ferromagnetic semiconductor HgCr2Se4 with muon-spin spectroscopy and resistance-fluctuation measurements (2022)
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Mitschek, M., Hicken, T. J., Yang, S., Wilson, M. N., Pratt, F. L., Wang, C., Blundell, S. J., Li, Z., Li, Y., Lancaster, T., & Müller, J. (2022). Probing the magnetic polaron state in the ferromagnetic semiconductor HgCr2Se4 with muon-spin spectroscopy and resistance-fluctuation measurements. Physical Review B, 105(6), Article 064404. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.105.064404

Combined resistance noise and muon-spin relaxation (μSR) measurements of the ferromagnetic semiconductor HgCr2Se4 suggest a degree of magnetoelectric coupling and provide evidence for the existence of isolated magnetic polarons. These form at elevate... Read More about Probing the magnetic polaron state in the ferromagnetic semiconductor HgCr2Se4 with muon-spin spectroscopy and resistance-fluctuation measurements.

Spin dynamics in bulk MnNiGa and Mn1.4Pt0.9Pd0.1Sn investigated by muon spin relaxation (2021)
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Wilson, M., Hicken, T., Gomilšek, M., Štefančič, A., Balakrishnan, G., Loudon, J., Twitchett-Harrison, A., Pratt, F., Telling, M., & Lancaster, T. (2021). Spin dynamics in bulk MnNiGa and Mn1.4Pt0.9Pd0.1Sn investigated by muon spin relaxation. Physical Review B, 104(13), Article 134414. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.104.134414

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Position-dependent stability and lifetime of the skyrmion state in nickel-substituted Cu2OSeO3 (2020)
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Crisanti, M., Birch, M., Wilson, M., Moody, S., Štefančič, A., Huddart, B., Cabeza, S., Balakrishnan, G., Hatton, P., & Cubitt, R. (2020). Position-dependent stability and lifetime of the skyrmion state in nickel-substituted Cu2OSeO3. Physical Review B, 102(22), Article 224407. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.102.224407

We report spatially resolved small-angle neutron-scattering measurements of the conical and skyrmion states of a bulk single crystal of nickel-substituted Cu2OSeO3, with a nominal concentration of Ni of 14%. We observe a significant spatial dependenc... Read More about Position-dependent stability and lifetime of the skyrmion state in nickel-substituted Cu2OSeO3.

Tilted X-Ray Holography of Magnetic Bubbles in MnNiGa Lamellae (2020)
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Turnbull, L. A., Birch, M. T., Laurenson, A., Bukin, N., Burgos-Parra, E. O., Popescu, H., Wilson, M. N., Stefančič, A., Balakrishnan, G., Ogrin, F. Y., & Hatton, P. D. (2021). Tilted X-Ray Holography of Magnetic Bubbles in MnNiGa Lamellae. ACS Nano, 15(1), 387-395. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.0c07392

Nanoscopic lamellae of centrosymmetric ferromagnetic alloys have recently been reported to host the biskyrmion spin texture; however, this has been disputed as the misidentication of topologically trivial type-II magnetic bubbles. Here we demonstrate... Read More about Tilted X-Ray Holography of Magnetic Bubbles in MnNiGa Lamellae.

Real-space imaging of confined magnetic skyrmion tubes (2020)
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Birch, M., Cortés-Ortuño, D., Turnbull, L., Wilson, M., Groß, F., Träger, N., Laurenson, A., Bukin, N., Moody, S., Weigand, M., Schütz, G., Popescu, H., Fan, R., Steadman, P., Verezhak, J., Balakrishnan, G., Loudon, J., Twitchett-Harrison, A., Hovorka, O., Fangohr, H., …Hatton, P. (2020). Real-space imaging of confined magnetic skyrmion tubes. Nature Communications, 11, Article 1726. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15474-8

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically nontrivial particles with a potential application as information elements in future spintronic device architectures. While they are commonly portrayed as two dimensional objects, in reality magnetic skyrmions are... Read More about Real-space imaging of confined magnetic skyrmion tubes.

Stability and metastability of skyrmions in thin lamellae of Cu2OSeO3 (2020)
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Wilson, M., Birch, M., Štefančič, A., Twitchett-Harrison, A., Balakrishnan, G., Hicken, T., Fan, R., Steadman, P., & Hatton, P. (2020). Stability and metastability of skyrmions in thin lamellae of Cu2OSeO3. Physical Review Research, 2(1), Article 013096. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevresearch.2.013096

We report small-angle x-ray scattering measurements of the skyrmion lattice in two 200-nm-thick Cu2OSeO3 lamellae aligned with the applied magnetic field parallel to the out of plane [110] or [100] crystallographic directions. Our measurements show t... Read More about Stability and metastability of skyrmions in thin lamellae of Cu2OSeO3.

Enhancing easy-plane anisotropy in bespoke Ni(II) quantum magnets (2020)
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Manson, J. L., Manson, Z. E., Sargent, A., Villa, D. Y., Etten, N. L., Blackmore, W. J., Curley, S. P., Williams, R. C., Brambleby, J., Goddard, P. A., Ozarowski, A., Wilson, M. N., Huddart, B. M., Lancaster, T., Johnson, R. D., Blundell, S. J., Bendix, J., Wheeler, K. A., Lapidus, S. H., Xiao, F., …Singleton, J. (2020). Enhancing easy-plane anisotropy in bespoke Ni(II) quantum magnets. Polyhedron, 180, Article 114379. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poly.2020.114379

We examine the crystal structures and magnetic properties of several S = 1 Ni(II) coordination compounds, molecules and polymers, that include the bridging ligands HF2-, AF62- (A = Ti, Zr) and pyrazine or non-bridging ligands F-, SiF62-, glycine, H2O... Read More about Enhancing easy-plane anisotropy in bespoke Ni(II) quantum magnets.

Measuring the formation energy barrier of skyrmions in zinc-substituted Cu2OSeO3 (2019)
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Wilson, M., Crisanti, M., Barker, C., Štefančič, A., White, J., Birch, M., Balakrishnan, G., Cubitt, R., & Hatton, P. (2019). Measuring the formation energy barrier of skyrmions in zinc-substituted Cu2OSeO3. Physical Review B, 99(17), Article 174421. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.99.174421

We report small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) measurements of the skyrmion lattice in (Cu0.976Zn0.024 )2OSeO3 under the application of electric and magnetic fields. These measurements show an expansion of the skyrmion lattice stability region with... Read More about Measuring the formation energy barrier of skyrmions in zinc-substituted Cu2OSeO3.

Origin of skyrmion lattice phase splitting in Zn-substituted Cu2OSeO3 (2018)
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Štefančič, A., Moody, S., Hicken, T., Birch, M., Balakrishnan, G., Barnett, S., Crisanti, M., Evans, J., Holt, S., Franke, K., Hatton, P., Huddart, B., Lees, M., Pratt, F., Tang, C., Wilson, M., Xiao, F., & Lancaster, T. (2018). Origin of skyrmion lattice phase splitting in Zn-substituted Cu2OSeO3. Physical Review Materials, 2(11), Article 111402(R). https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevmaterials.2.111402

We present an investigation into the structural and magnetic properties of Zn-substituted Cu2OSeO3, a system in which the skyrmion lattice (SkL) phase in the magnetic field–temperature phase diagram was previously seen to split as a function of incre... Read More about Origin of skyrmion lattice phase splitting in Zn-substituted Cu2OSeO3.