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When degenerate states are separated by large energy barriers, the approach to thermal equilibrium can be slow enough that physical properties are defined by the thermalization process rather than the equilibrium. The exploration of…
We report a high-field electron spin resonance study in the sub-THz frequency domain of a single crystal of Sr$_2$IrO$_4$ that has been recently proposed as a prototypical spin-orbital Mott insulator. In the antiferromagnetically (AFM)…
We have studied the magnetic and transport properties of an ultra-low-resistivity two-dimensional electron system in a Si/SiGe quantum well. The spin polarization increases linearly with the in-plane magnetic field and the enhancement of…
We report low-temperature susceptibility and magnetisation data for the cubic pyrochlore Er2Ti2O7. By performing the measurements on single crystals we are able to establish the degree of magnetic anisotropy present in this compound and to…
The nature of the magnetic ground state of highly frustrated systems remained puzzling to this day. Here, we have performed multifrequency electron spin resonance (ESR) measurements on a putative quantum spin liquid compound…
Spinel Cobalt Vanadate CoV$_2$O$_4$ has been grown on (001) SrTiO$_3$ substrates. Using torque magnetometry experiments, we find that the previously observed temperature induced anisotropy change, where the easy axis changes from the out of…
We report a study of single crystals of the hexagonal rare-earth diboride ErB$_{2}$ prepared by means of the self-adjusted flux travelling-solvent floating-zone technique. Measurements of the magnetization, ac susceptibility, specific heat,…
We measure thermodynamic magnetization of a low-disordered, strongly correlated two-dimensional electron system in silicon. Pauli spin susceptibility is observed to grow critically at low electron densities - behavior that is characteristic…
We report a muSR study of LiCrO2, which has a magnetic lattice made up of a stacking of triangular Heisenberg antiferromagnetic (Cr3+, S = 3/2) layers. A static magnetically ordered state is observed below the transition temperature T_N =…
Investigating spin and charge noise in strongly correlated electron systems is a valuable way to analyze their physical properties and unlock new phases of matter. In this context, nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center-based magnetometry has been…
Attempts to unravel the nature of magnetic ordering in LaSrCoO$_4$ (Co$^{3+}$), a compound intermediate between antiferromagnetic (AFM) La$_2$CoO$_4$ (Co$^{2+}$) and ferromagnetic (FM) Sr$_2$CoO$_4$ (Co$^{4+}$), have met with a limited…
Static and dynamic magnetic properties of P\={3}1$m$-phase MnSb$_2$O$_6$ have been studied by means of muon spin relaxation ($\mu$SR), high-frequency electron spin resonance (HF-ESR), specific heat, and magnetisation studies in magnetic…
Thermodynamic properties as well as low-energy magnon excitations of $S=1$ honeycomb-layered Na$_3$Ni$_2$SbO$_6$ have been investigated by high-resolution dilatometry, static magnetisation, and high-frequency electron spin resonance studies…
KCuCl$_3$ is a three-dimensional coupled spin-dimer system and has a singlet ground state with an excitation gap ${\Delta}/k_{\rm B}=31$ K. High-field magnetization measurements for KCuCl$_3$ have been performed in static magnetic fields of…
Single-crystal neutron inelastic scattering was performed in order to investigate the magnetic excitations in the spin gap system TlCuCl$_3$. The constant-${\bf Q}$ energy scan profiles were collected in the $a^*-c^*$ plane. Three…
The Ce$^{3+}$ pseudospin-1/2 degrees of freedom in Ce$_2$Zr$_2$O$_7$ possess both dipolar and octupolar character which enables the possibility of novel quantum spin liquid ground states in this material. Here we report new muon spin…
We investigated magnetization, muon spin rotation ($\mu$SR), and $^{119}Sn$ M\"{o}ssbauer spectroscopy on Sn substituted $CuCr_{2-x}Sn_xS_4$ (x=0.03 and 0.08) spinel compounds. The magnetization and $\mu$SR results reveal similar additional…
Magnetic properties of a one-dimensional frustrated quantum spin system Rb2Cu2Mo3O12 is investigated by the muon spin relaxation (muSR) technique. Although this system shows an incommensurate spin correlation in neutron scattering, it has…
Spin relaxation between the two lowest-lying spin-states has been studied in the S=4 single molecule magnet Ni$_4$ under steady state conditions of low amplitude and continuous microwave irradiation. The relaxation rate was determined as a…