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Credit: Jack Hobhouse

Yiu Fung Chiu

Graduate Student

Research theme

  • Quantum materials

Sub department

  • Condensed Matter Physics

Research groups

  • X-ray and neutron scattering
yiufung.chiu@physics.ox.ac.uk
Clarendon Laboratory, room 105
ORCID ID 0000-0001-9673-6167
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A DPhil student studying Condensed Matter Physics under the co-supervision of Prof. Andrew Boothroyd and Dr Kejin Zhou from Diamond Light Source. 

My research consists mainly of probing strong spin-orbit coupling (SOC) effects in quantum materials using resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) in Diamond Light Source. As a complementary technique, I use neutron scattering to help me gain more information about other aspects of my materials. I also create mathematical models to describe novel quantum phases and do computer simulation to compare with experimental data obtained. By improving our understanding of these quantum effects, we can efficiently search or design materials with useful properties for application in electronic and spintronic devices.

I particularly focus on quantum magnetism in two branches of quantum materials. 1. Heavy metal oxide as strong Mott insulators, 2. Double perovskites with highly entangled spin and orbital angular momenta. I am also studying low energy excitations in strongly correlated materials and the magnetic structure in Weyl semimetals.

I am a Clarendon Scholar and I completed my MPhys degree at the University of St Andrews.

Research interests

Quantum materials
Superconductivity
Quantum Magnetism
Topological Materials
Crystal Growth
RIXS

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