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Christian and Oliver vivas

23 January 2025

In rapid succession, Christian de Podesta and Oliver Squire had their PhD vivas this week, having submitted their dissertations in under four years. Christian's viva was on Monday 20 January, with Philipp Niklowitz (external, Royal Holloway) and Montu Saxena (internal) as his examiners. Oliver's viva took place on...

Max Daschner PhD viva

22 December 2024

Congratulations are in order to Max, who had his PhD viva on 17 December - and a big thank you to his examiners: external Tony Carrington (Bristol) and internal Jason Robinson. Max completed a tricky project on quantum oscillation studies in topological semimetals on time and on budget and is now starting a postdoc at LMU...

CDT in Superconductivity, Cambridge Open Day 3 December

31 October 2024

PhD applicants for 2024/25 may be interested to learn that we are part of a new Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) for Superconductivity, together with colleagues in Bristol and Oxford. Superconductivity is a multi-disciplinary research theme, which includes engineers, material scientists, as well as experimental...

Max submits his dissertation!

16 October 2024

QM student Maximilian Daschner buckled down over the summer and produced a nice PhD dissertation, which he managed to submit at the end of September, just before his caring college was going to kick him out of his generous lodgings. Max took the path less traveled by: while most of the group are working on unconventional...

Christian submitted as well!

8 September 2024

QM student Christian de Podesta successfully submitted his PhD dissertation at the end of August, after a sprint to meet an aspirational deadline. Christian's dissertation 'Magnetism in Cerium Diantimonides under Pressure' nicely complements the work submitted by Oliver the day before. These two projects produced a step...

Oliver submitted his PhD thesis!

5 September 2024

Just within the self-inflicted deadline, QM PhD student Oliver Squire submitted his evocatively titled thesis 'High-Pressure Studies of Some Heavy Fermion Materials'. Oliver is moving on immediately to a job at the Canadian quantum technology company Photonic. Congratulations!

QM in the news

16 May 2024

Last summer's research trip to the Synergetic Extreme Condition User Facility (SECUF), Beijing, by QM members Zheyu Wu, Theo Weinberger & Alex Eaton has been featured in a recent Nature news article. The trio were the first international user group to be awarded measurement time on a new world-unique all-...

Metallic magnetocalorics findings published

26 April 2024

Thomas Gruner and colleagues in the QM group and at the MPI-CPfS in Dresden showed that YbNi2Sn retains high spin entropy down to very low temperatures, much less than 1K, despite being a good metal. On the face of it, this is unexpected, because electrons in metals form a degenerate Fermi gas, and so their entropy...

APS March Meeting 2024

18 March 2024

A number of QM group members recently travelled to the American Physical Society March Meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota, along with over 11,000 other attendees. Talks by QM members spanned a range of topics from the electronic structure of Dirac nodal-line semimetals through to the high magnetic field phase landscape of...

QM Seminars Lent term

12 February 2024

The QM seminar series has picked up this term, with Clifford Hicks (Birmingham) giving a very interesting survey of recent developments in Sr 2 RuO 4 in January, followed last week by Tamaghna Hazra (KIT Karlsruhe), who talked about upper limits on T c imposed by phase fluctuations. Coming up: Alix McCollam (Cork) on 22...