Muon spin spectroscopy

AD Hillier, SJ Blundell, I McKenzie, I Umegaki… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Muons are particles with a spin of ½ that can be implanted into a wide range of condensed
matter materials to act as a local probe of the surrounding atomic environment …

Chemistry of quantum spin liquids

JR Chamorro, TM McQueen, TT Tran - Chemical Reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Quantum spin liquids are an exciting playground for exotic physical phenomena and
emergent many-body quantum states. The realization and discovery of quantum spin liquid …

Intrinsic magnetism in superconducting infinite-layer nickelates

J Fowlie, M Hadjimichael, MM Martins, D Li, M Osada… - Nature Physics, 2022 - nature.com
The discovery of superconductivity in Nd0. 8Sr0. 2NiO2 (ref.) introduced a new family of
layered nickelate superconductors that has now been extended to include a range of …

Spin-polarized muons in condensed matter physics

SJ Blundell - Contemporary Physics, 1999 - Taylor & Francis
A positive muon is a spin-1/2 particle. Beams of muons with all their spins polarized can be
prepared and subsequently implanted in various types of condensed matter. The …

Muon Spin Relaxation Evidence for the U(1) Quantum Spin-Liquid Ground State in the Triangular Antiferromagnet

Y Li, D Adroja, PK Biswas, PJ Baker, Q Zhang, J Liu… - Physical review …, 2016 - APS
Muon spin relaxation (μ SR) experiments on single crystals of the structurally perfect
triangular antiferromagnet YbMgGaO 4 indicate the absence of both static long-range …

Dimensionality control of electronic phase transitions in nickel-oxide superlattices

AV Boris, Y Matiks, E Benckiser, A Frano, P Popovich… - Science, 2011 - science.org
The competition between collective quantum phases in materials with strongly correlated
electrons depends sensitively on the dimensionality of the electron system, which is difficult …

Muon spin rotation and relaxation in magnetic materials

PD De Réotier, A Yaouanc - Journal of Physics: Condensed …, 1997 - iopscience.iop.org
A review of the muon spin rotation and relaxation studies on magnetic materials published
from July 1993 is presented. It covers the investigation of magnetic phase diagrams, that of …

Magnetic correlations in infinite-layer nickelates: An experimental and theoretical multimethod study

RA Ortiz, P Puphal, M Klett, F Hotz, RK Kremer… - Physical Review …, 2022 - APS
We report a comprehensive study of magnetic correlations in LaNiO 2, a parent compound
of the recently discovered family of infinite-layer (IL) nickelate superconductors, using …

Gapless Spin Liquid Ground State in the S<? format?>=<? format?> 1/2 Vanadium Oxyfluoride Kagome Antiferromagnet [NH 4] 2 [C 7 H 14 N][V 7 O 6 F 18]

L Clark, JC Orain, F Bert, MA De Vries, FH Aidoudi… - Physical Review Letters, 2013 - APS
The vanadium oxyfluoride [NH 4] 2 [C 7 H 14 N][V 7 O 6 F 18](DQVOF) is a geometrically
frustrated magnetic bilayer material. The structure consists of S= 1/2 kagome planes of V 4+ …

Generalized spin-glass relaxation

RM Pickup, R Cywinski, C Pappas, B Farago… - Physical review …, 2009 - APS
Spin relaxation close to the glass temperature of Cu ̲ Mn and Au ̲ Fe spin glasses is
shown, by neutron spin echo, to follow a generalized exponential function which explicitly …