Master student seasons
We are pleased to welcome in our group Hafsa Zeroual, Mathieu Loriot and Aaditya Vedant for their master internship!
Study unveils gapless ground state in an archetypal quantum kagome
Our NMR study on Herberstmithite, the quantum kagomé Heisenberg antiferromagnet material that could host a quantum spin liquid, was recently highlighted on phys.org: https://phys.org/news/2020-03-unveils-gapless-ground-state-archetypal.html
Frustrated magnetism in an anisotropic kagome material: Y-Kapellasite
Y3Cu9(OH)19Cl8, also coined as Y-kapellasite, realizes an original anisotropic frustrated kagome model. We studied large phase-pure single crystals, obtained via an external gradient method, by susceptibility, specific heat, thermal expansion, …
Dr. Barlowite in 2022’PhD Graduation Ceremony!
Brendan Le Pennec officially recieved his PhD diploma on July 1st during the 6th PhD graduation ceremony of the university Paris-Saclay. Congratulation! He had defended his thesis entitled “Etude par …
Awarded scientific prize at the Institut de France!
Philippe Mendels is the Grand Prix Scientifique Laureate for 2022 of the Charles Defforey Foundation – Institut de France for his leadership of the SQM team that led to the …
Muon spin spectroscopy: a Primer
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 …
Next HFM2022 conference in Paris!
The next Highly Frustrated Magnetism conference will be held in Paris from June 20th to 25th 2022, in the “Couvent des Cordeliers”, a historical landmark that belongs to Sorbonne University, …
A S=5/2 classical kagome spin liquid with a 1/3-plateau
The new material Li9Fe3(P2O7)3(PO4)2 is a rare example of a classical Heisenberg kagomé antiferromagnet that we have investigated using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and magnetization measurements down to low temperatures. Our …
Welcome to Dipranjan!
Dipranjan Chatterjee is joining the group as a PhD student. He will work on the experimental study of quantum spin liquids under the supervision of F. Bert and E. Kermarrec. …