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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...

UTe2 Fermi surface paper published in Nature Communications

5 January 2024

A collaboration led by Research Fellow Dr. Alex Eaton is making rapid progress with resolving the Fermi surface and carrier mass in the unconventional superconductor UTe2, providing key input to any comprehensive theoretical description. Results from a series of quantum oscillation measurements have now been published in...

Stephen Hodgson PhD

8 October 2023

Stephen Hodgson passed his PhD viva with minor corrections last week and was celebrated by a group outing on Friday - congratulations! We thank his examiners - external, Prof. Stefan Süllow (Brunswick/Germany) and Dr. Michael Sutherland (QM, Cavendish). Stephen brought high pressure heat capacity techniques to our group...

High pressure quantum oscillation measurements in a Mott metal, PNAS paper published

7 October 2023

Correlated electron materials display a zoo of ordered states such as multiple forms of magnetism and superconductivity, but the metallic 'normal' state from which these arise is itself in many cases only incompletely understood. One of the most fundamental examples of such a correlated normal state occurs as a Mott...