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Muon-spin relaxation investigation of magnetic bistability in a crystalline organic radical compound (2023)
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Hernández-Melían, A., Huddart, B., Pratt, F., Blundell, S., Mills, M., Young, H., Preuss, K., & Lancaster, T. (2023). Muon-spin relaxation investigation of magnetic bistability in a crystalline organic radical compound. Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, 181, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpcs.2023.111493

We present the results of a muon-spin relaxation (𝜇+SR) investigation of the crystalline organic radicalcompound 4-(2-benzimidazolyl)-1,2,3,5-dithiadiazolyl (HbimDTDA), in which we demonstrate the hystereticmagnetic switching of the system that takes... Read More about Muon-spin relaxation investigation of magnetic bistability in a crystalline organic radical compound.

Many-body quantum muon effects and quadrupolar coupling in solids (2023)
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Gomilšek, M., Pratt, F. L., Cottrell, S. P., Clark, S. J., & Lancaster, T. (2023). Many-body quantum muon effects and quadrupolar coupling in solids. Communications Physics, 6(1), https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-023-01260-7

Strong quantum zero-point motion (ZPM) of light nuclei and other particles is a crucial aspect of many state-of-the-art quantum materials. However, it has only recently begun to be explored from an ab initio perspective, through several competing app... Read More about Many-body quantum muon effects and quadrupolar coupling in solids.

DFT + μ: Density functional theory for muon site determination (2023)
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Blundell, S., & Lancaster, T. (2023). DFT + μ: Density functional theory for muon site determination. Applied Physics Reviews, 10(2), Article 021316. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0149080

The technique of muon spin rotation (μSR) has emerged in the last few decades as one of the most powerful methods of obtaining local magnetic information. To make the technique fully quantitative, it is necessary to have an accurate estimate of where... Read More about DFT + μ: Density functional theory for muon site determination.

μSR investigation of magnetism in κ−(ET)2X : Antiferromagnetism (2023)
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Huddart, B., Lancaster, T., Blundell, S., Guguchia, Z., Taniguchi, H., Clark, S., & Pratt, F. (2023). μSR investigation of magnetism in κ−(ET)2X : Antiferromagnetism. Physical Review Research, 5(1), Article 013015. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevresearch.5.013015

We study magnetism in the κ-(ET)2X family of charge-transfer salts using implanted muon spectroscopy in conjunction with detailed ab initio electronic structure calculations using density functional theory (DFT). ET stands for the electron donor mole... Read More about μSR investigation of magnetism in κ−(ET)2X : Antiferromagnetism.

MuFinder: A program to determine and analyse muon stopping sites (2022)
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Huddart, B., Hernández-Melián, A., Hicken, T., Gomilšek, M., Hawkhead, Z., Clark, S., Pratt, F., & Lancaster, T. (2022). MuFinder: A program to determine and analyse muon stopping sites. Computer Physics Communications, 280, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2022.108488

Significant progress has recently been made in calculating muon stopping sites using density functional theory. The technique aims to address two of the most common criticisms of the muon-spin spectroscopy (μ+SR) technique, namely, where in the sampl... Read More about MuFinder: A program to determine and analyse muon stopping sites.

Radio-Frequency Manipulation of State Populations in an Entangled Fluorine-Muon-Fluorine System (2022)
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Billington, D., Riordan, E., Salman, M., Margineda, D., Gill, G. J., Cottrell, S. P., McKenzie, I., Lancaster, T., Graf, M. J., & Giblin, S. R. (2022). Radio-Frequency Manipulation of State Populations in an Entangled Fluorine-Muon-Fluorine System. Physical Review Letters, 129(7), https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.129.077201

Entangled spin states are created by implanting muons into single-crystal LiY0.95Ho0.05F4 to form a cluster of correlated, dipole-coupled local magnetic moments. The resulting states have well-defined energy levels allowing experimental manipulation... Read More about Radio-Frequency Manipulation of State Populations in an Entangled Fluorine-Muon-Fluorine System.

Muon-Nitrogen Quadrupolar Level Crossing Resonance in a Charge Transfer Salt (2022)
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Berlie, A., Pratt, F. L., Huddart, B. M., Lancaster, T., & Cottrell, S. P. (2022). Muon-Nitrogen Quadrupolar Level Crossing Resonance in a Charge Transfer Salt. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 126(17), 7529-7534. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.2c00617

Although muons are primarily regarded as a local spin probe, they can also access the charge state of an atom or molecule via quadrupolar level crossing resonance (QLCR) spectroscopy. We use Li+TCNQ– (TCNQ = 7,7,8,8-tetracyanoquinodimethane), a simpl... Read More about Muon-Nitrogen Quadrupolar Level Crossing Resonance in a Charge Transfer Salt.

Magnetism in the Néel-skyrmion host GaV4S8 under pressure (2022)
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Hicken, T., Wilson, M., Holt, S., Khassanov, R., Lees, M., Gupta, R., Das, D., Balakrishnan, G., & Lancaster, T. (2022). Magnetism in the Néel-skyrmion host GaV4S8 under pressure. Physical Review B, 105(13), https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.105.134414

We present magnetization and muon-spin spectroscopy measurements of Néel-skyrmion host GaV4S8 under the application of hydrostatic pressures up to P = 2.29 GPa. Our results suggest that the magnetic phase diagram is altered with pressure via a reduct... Read More about Magnetism in the Néel-skyrmion host GaV4S8 under pressure.

Energy-gap driven low-temperature magnetic and transport properties in Cr1/3MS2(M = Nb, Ta) (2022)
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Hicken, T., Hawkhead, Z., Wilson, M., Huddart, B., Hall, A., Balakrishnan, G., Wang, C., Pratt, F., Clark, S., & Lancaster, T. (2022). Energy-gap driven low-temperature magnetic and transport properties in Cr1/3MS2(M = Nb, Ta). Physical Review B, 105(6), Article L060407. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.105.l060407

The helimagnets Cr1/3MS2 (M = Nb or Ta) have attracted renewed attention due to the discovery of a chiral soliton lattice (CSL) stabilized in an applied magnetic field, but reports of unusual low-temperature transport and magnetic properties in this... Read More about Energy-gap driven low-temperature magnetic and transport properties in Cr1/3MS2(M = Nb, Ta).

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.

Intrinsic nature of spontaneous magnetic fields in superconductors with time-reversal symmetry breaking (2021)
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Huddart, B., Onuorah, I., Isah, M., Bonfa, P., Blundell, S., Clark, S., De Renzi, R., & Lancaster, T. (2021). Intrinsic nature of spontaneous magnetic fields in superconductors with time-reversal symmetry breaking. Physical Review Letters, 127(23), Article 237002. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.127.237002

We present a systematic investigation of muon-stopping states in superconductors that reportedly exhibit spontaneous magnetic fields below their transition temperatures due to time-reversal symmetry breaking. These materials include elemental rhenium... Read More about Intrinsic nature of spontaneous magnetic fields in superconductors with time-reversal symmetry breaking.

Muon sites in PbF2 and YF3: Decohering environments and the role of anion Frenkel defects (2021)
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Wilkinson, J., Pratt, F., Lancaster, T., Baker, P., & Blundell, S. (2021). Muon sites in PbF2 and YF3: Decohering environments and the role of anion Frenkel defects. Physical Review B, 104(22), Article L220409. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.104.l220409

Muons implanted into ionic fluorides often lead to a so-called F– μ –F state, in which the time evolution of the muon spin contains information about the geometry and nature of the muon site. Nuclei more distant from the muon than the two nearest-nei... Read More about Muon sites in PbF2 and YF3: Decohering environments and the role of anion Frenkel defects.

Anomalous magnetic exchange in a dimerized quantum magnet composed of unlike spin species (2021)
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Curley, S., Huddart, B., Kamenskyi, D., Coak, M., Williams, R., Ghannadzadeh, S., Schneider, A., Okubo, S., Sakurai, T., Ohta, H., Tidey, J., Graf, D., Clark, S., Blundell, S., Pratt, F., Telling, M., Lancaster, T., Manson, J., & Goddard, P. (2021). Anomalous magnetic exchange in a dimerized quantum magnet composed of unlike spin species. Physical Review B, 104(21), Article 214435. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.104.214435

We present here a study of the magnetic properties of the antiferromagnetic dimer material CuVOF 4 ( H 2 O ) 6 ⋅ H 2 O , in which the dimer unit is composed of two different S = 1 / 2 species, Cu(II) and V(IV). An applied magnetic field of μ 0 H c 1... Read More about Anomalous magnetic exchange in a dimerized quantum magnet composed of unlike spin species.

Muon Spectroscopy: an Introduction (2021)
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Blundell, S., De Renzi, R., Lancaster, T., & Pratt, F. (Eds.). (2021). Muon Spectroscopy: an Introduction. Oxford University Press

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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Quantum phases and spin liquid properties of 1T-TaS2 (2021)
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Mañas-Valero, S., Huddart, B. M., Lancaster, T., Coronado, E., & Pratt, F. L. (2021). Quantum phases and spin liquid properties of 1T-TaS2. npj Quantum Materials, 6(1), Article 69. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41535-021-00367-w

Quantum materials exhibiting magnetic frustration are connected to diverse phenomena, including high Tc superconductivity, topological order, and quantum spin liquids (QSLs). A QSL is a quantum phase (QP) related to a quantum-entangled fluid-like sta... Read More about Quantum phases and spin liquid properties of 1T-TaS2.