Superconductivity and Magnetism

The Superconductivity and Magnetism Group is part of the Condensed Matter Physics Group here in the Physics Department at the University of Warwick. The Superconductivity and MagnetismGroup's research interests are centred around the properties of strongly correlated electron systems. The Group has three core activities:

single crystal growth and sample preparation
in house measurements of magnetic, thermodynamic and transport properties
neutron scattering studies

Web Pages	Research Interests	Ph.D Research Projects
Welcome to the Superconductivity and Magnetism Group website. In these web pages we describe how the group is structured and how it operates.	For more details on the research activities of the Superconductivity and Magnetism Group please visit our Research Pages.	For more details please visit the Ph.D. Research Projects pages of our website.

View into the heavy water vessel at the Institut Laue Langevin in Grenoble.	Small angle neutron scattering image of the flux line lattice in a single crystal of TmNi₂B₂C.	Subham Majumdar, Geetha Balakrishan and Sonya Crowe at the IVC meeting in Mubai.

Group Facilities	News
The Group Research Facilities section of our website contains a guide to the instruments and the different experimental techniques used by the Group.	January 2011: Congratulations to Catherine Fleck. Catherine has just successfully completed her thesis viva and become the latest student to graduate with a Ph.D. from the Superconductivity and Magnetism Group.
Single crystal growth and sample preparation Laboratory measurements Central facilities	May 2011- Postgraduate Poster Day 10^th . Congratulations to Olga Young who was the winner of the Departmental 2nd year postgraduate poster competition 2011.
The facilities based at Warwick are available for use by other members of the Department, the University, and, through collaborations, external users. If you would like to know more please contact a member of the Superconductivity and Magnetism Group.	October 2011: Welcome to Hailey Williamson who has joined the Group as an M.Sc. student. January 2012: Congratulations to Ruth McKinnon who has successfully completed her MSc under the supervision of Geetha Balakrishnan.
Contact Details	Recent Papers or Preprints
Superconductivity and Magnetism Group Department of Physics University of Warwick Coventry CV4 7AL UK	Coexistence of the long-range and short-range magnetic order components in SrEr₂O₄, T. J. Hayes, G. Balakrishnan, P. P. Deen, P. Manuel, L. C. Chapon, and O. A. Petrenko, Physical Review B 84, 174435 (2011).
Departmental Fax: +44 (0)2476 150897	First-Order Reorientation Transition of the Flux-Line Lattice in CaAlSi, P. K. Biswas, M. R. Lees, G. Balakrishnan, D. Q. Liao, D. S. Keeble, J. L. Gavilano, N. Egetenmeyer, C. D. Dewhurst, and D. M. Paul, Physical Review Letters 108, 077001 (2012). Also see PSI Scientific Highlights.
Contact details for all members of the Group can be found on our who's who page.	Slow magnetic order-order transition in the spin chain antiferromagnet Ca₃Co₂O₆, S. Agrestini, C.L. Fleck, L.C. Chapon, C. Mazzoli, A. Bombardi, M.R. Lees, and O.A. Petrenko, Physical Review Letters 106, 197204, (2011). Also see ISIS Scientific Highlights