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Dr Daniel Brunt

Background

Supervised by Dr Oleg Petrenko

Research Interests

I became interested in frustrated magnetism through my final year project with Dr Oleg Petrenko. I was working on Barium Rare-earth oxides (BaR2O4), the R ions form a network of hexagons and triangles. The frustration in these structures arises due to the chain of edge sharing triangles formed by the RE ions.

During my Ph.D. I investigated the rare earth tetraborides (RB4), which crystallise in a tetragonal structure. The R ions form an array of squares and triangles which is topologically equivalent to the Shastry-Sutherland lattice. This is one of the rare examples of the Shastry-Sutherland lattice being experimentally realised. The competition between magnetic and quadrupolar interactions present in the material leads to a number of novel and unusual properties to arise.

Publications

  • D. Brunt, G. Balakrishnan, A. R. Wildes, B. Ouladdiaf, N. Qureshi, and O. A. Petrenko, Phys. Rev. B 95 024410 (2017).
  • O. A. Petrenko, O. Young, D. Brunt, G. Balakrishnan, P. Manuel, D. D. Khalyavin, and C. Ritter Phys. Rev. B 95 104442 (2017).
  • D. Brunt, G. Balakrishnan, D. A. Mayoh, M. R. Lees, D. Gorbunov, N. Qureshi, and O. A. Petrenko, Scientific Reports 8, 232 (2018).

Ph.D. Thesis

Magnetic properties of frustrated Shastry-Sutherland magnets; rare earth tetraborides: Download Thesis.

Conferences Attended

Poster Presentations
  • Highly Frustrated Magnetism (HFM) "Characterisation and Crystal Growth of Rare-Earth Tetraborides", Cambridge (2014)
  • Frontiers of Unconventionial Superconductivity and Magnetism (FUSM) "Magnetic Properties of Frustrated Shastry-Sutherland Magnets, the Rare Earth Tetraboride" Bristol (2015)
  • European Conference for Neutron Scattering (ECNS) "Magnetic Structure of Frustrated Shastry-Sutherland Magnets, Neodymium Tetraboride" Zaragoza (2015)
  • Neutron Muon User Meeting (NMUM) "Magnetic Structure of the Shastry-Sutherland Magnet; Neodymium Tetraboride" Warwick (2017)
Talks
  • 2nd ISIS Strudent Meeting "Magnetic Excitation in the Rare Earth Tetraborides" Abingdon (2015)
  • Magnetism "Field Induced Incommensurate Magnetic Structure in Holmium Tetraboride" Sheffield (2016)
  • Theoretical and Experimental Magnetism Meeting (TEMM) "Magnetic Structure of the Shastry-Sutherland Magnet; Neodymium Tetraboride" Abingdon (2017)

Courses Taken

MPAGS
EX3: Crystallography
NS1: Introduction to Surfaces and Thin Films
Other
Introduction to Microscopy (Warwick)
Introduction to COMSOL Multiphysics (Coventry)
ISIS Neutron Training School 2014 (ISIS, Oxford)
FullProf School 2015 (ILL, Grenoble)

Teaching Duties

Marker - 2nd Year Physics Teaching Laboratory (P4)

Current Role

Higher Research Scientist - National Physical Laboratory

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For information about Dan's work at Warwick please write to:

Dr Oleg Petrenko
Department of Physics
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL
United Kingdom

Dan's Contact Details

Web Page at NPL

E-Mail daniel.brunt(at)npl.co.uk