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most citedBulk properties of van-der-Waals hard ferromagnet VI3

129 citations · 746 across the 23 of their papers we have counts for

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25 papers

cond-mat.str-el2025

Heterometallic spin-1/2 quantum magnet under hydrostatic pressure

M. J. Coak, D. Kamenskyi, S. P. M. Curley +14

We investigate the properties of CuVOF(HO)HO, in which two different spin species, Cu(II) and V(IV), form antiferromagnetic spin-1/2 dimers with weak interdi…

cond-mat.str-el2025

Emergent Polar Metal Phase in a Van der Waals Mott Magnet

Shiyu Deng, Matthew J. Coak, Charles R. S. Haines +16

We report the emergence of a two-dimensional (2D) polar metal phase in van der Waals compound FePSe under moderate pressures. This layered material is a Mott insulator with ant…

cond-mat.str-el2023★ 2 cited

Direct evidence from high-field magnetotransport for a dramatic change of quasiparticle character in van der Waals ferromagnet FeGeTe

Shroya Vaidya, Matthew J. Coak, Daniel A. Mayoh +4

Magnetometry and magnetoresistance (MR) data taken on the van der Waals ferromagnet FeGeTe (FGT) reveal three distinct contributions to the MR: a linear negative compon…

cond-mat.str-el2023★ 19 cited

Thermal Hall effects due to topological spin fluctuations in YMnO

Ha-Leem Kim, Takuma Saito, Heejun Yang +7

The thermal Hall effect in magnetic insulators has been considered a powerful method for examining the topological nature of charge-neutral quasiparticles such as magnons. Yet, unl…

cond-mat.str-el2023★ 6 cited

Asymmetric phase diagram and dimensional crossover in a system of spin-1/2 dimers under applied hydrostatic pressure

M. J. Coak, S. P. M. Curley, Z. Hawkhead +8

We present the magnetic and structural properties of [Cu(pyrazine)(glycine)]ClO under applied pressure. As previously reported, at ambient pressure this material consis…

cond-mat.str-el2022★ 9 cited

Magnetotransport of single crystal SmIrO across the pressure-induced quantum-critical phase boundary

M. J. Coak, K. Götze, T. Northam De La Fuente +6

Rare-earth pyrochlore iridates host two interlocking magnetic sublattices of corner-sharing tetrahedra and can harbour a unique combination of frustrated moments, exotic excitation…

cond-mat.str-el2022★ 6 cited

Comparative structural evolution under pressure of powder and single crystals of the layered antiferromagnet FePS

David M. Jarvis, Matthew J. Coak, Hayrullo Hamidov +9

The layered antiferromagnet FePS has been shown to undergo a structural transition under pressure linked to an insulator-metal transition, with two incompatible models previous…

cond-mat.str-el2021★ 1 cited

Pressure-induced shift of effective Ce valence, Fermi energy and phase boundaries in CeOsSb

K. Götze, M. J. Pearce, M. J. Coak +9

CeOsSb, a member of the skutterudite family, has an unusual semimetallic low-temperature -phase that inhabits a wedge-like area of the field - temperature $…

cond-mat.str-el2021★ 3 cited

Anomalous magnetic exchange in a dimerized quantum-magnet composed of unlike spin species

S. P. M. Curley, B. M. Huddart, D. Kamenskyi +15

We present here a study of the magnetic properties of the antiferromagnetic dimer material CuVOF(HO)HO, in which the dimer unit is composed of two different $S…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 50 cited

Highly efficient nonvolatile magnetization switching and multi-level states by current in single van der Waals topological ferromagnet Fe3GeTe2

Kaixuan Zhang, Youjin Lee, Matthew J. Coak +10

Robust multi-level spin memory with the ability to write information electrically is a long-sought capability in spintronics, with great promise for applications. Here we achieve n…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 115 cited

Gigantic current control of coercive field and magnetic memory based on nm-thin ferromagnetic van der Waals Fe3GeTe2

Kaixuan Zhang, Seungyun Han, Youjin Lee +11

Controlling magnetic states by a small current is essential for the next-generation of energy-efficient spintronic devices. However, it invariably requires considerable energy to c…

cond-mat.str-el2020★ 24 cited

Sizeable suppression of thermal Hall effect upon isotopic substitution in strontium titanate

Sangwoo Sim, Heejun Yang, Ha-Leem Kim +4

We report measurements of the thermal Hall effect in single crystals of both pristine and isotopically substituted strontium titanate. We discovered a two orders of magnitude diffe…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020

Kagome van-der-Waals Pd3P2S8 with flat band

Seunghyun Park, Soonmin Kang, Haeri Kim +13

With the advanced investigations into low-dimensional systems, it has become essential to find materials having interesting lattices that can be exfoliated down to monolayer. One p…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 40 cited

Pressure-induced huge increase of Curie temperature of the van der Waals ferromagnet VI3

J. Valenta, M. Kratochvílová, M. Míšek +12

Evolution of magnetism in single crystals of the van der Waals compound VI3 in external pressure up to 7.3 GPa studied by measuring magnetization and ac magnetic susceptibility is…

cond-mat.str-el2020★ 69 cited

Evolution of magnetic order in van-der-Waals antiferromagnet FePS through insulator-metal transition

Matthew J. Coak, David M Jarvis, Hayrullo Hamidov +14

Layered van-der-Waals 2D magnetic materials are of great interest in fundamental condensed-matter physics research, as well as for potential applications in spintronics and device…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020

Observation of plateau-like magnetoresistance in twisted Fe3GeTe2/Fe3GeTe2 junction

Junghyun Kim, Suhan Son, Matthew. J. Coak +4

Controlling the stacking of van der Waals (vdW) materials is found to produce exciting new findings, since hetero- or homo- structures have added the diverse possibility of assembl…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 26 cited

Local nuclear and magnetic order in the two-dimensional spin glass, MnFePS

J. N. Graham, M. J. Coak, S. Son +4

We present a comprehensive study of the short-ranged nuclear and magnetic order in the two-dimensional spin glass, MnFePS. Nuclear neutron scattering data revea…

physics.app-ph2020★ 58 cited

Strongly adhesive dry transfer technique for van der Waals heterostructure

Suhan Son, Young Jae Shin, Kaixuan Zhang +11

That one can stack van der Waals materials with atomically sharp interfaces has provided a new material platform of constructing heterostructures. The technical challenge of mechan…

physics.data-an2020★ 23 cited

SquidLab -- a user-friendly program for background subtraction and fitting of magnetization data

Matthew J. Coak, Cheng Liu, David M. Jarvis +3

We present an open-source program free to download for academic use with full user-friendly graphical interface for performing flexible and robust background subtraction and dipole…

cond-mat.str-el2019★ 13 cited

Pressure dependence of ferroelectric quantum critical fluctuations

M. J. Coak, C. R. S. Haines, C. Liu +2

The effect of ferroelectric fluctuations on the temperature dependent dielectric constant of SrTiO(STO) has been long studied. Those fluctuations have been shown in recent ye…

cond-mat.str-el2019

Isostructural Mott Transition in 2D honeycomb antiferromagnet VPS

M. J. Coak, S. Son, D. Daisenberger +7

We present the observation of an isostructural Mott insulator-metal transition in van-der-Waals honeycomb antiferromagnet VPS through high-pressure x-ray diffraction an…

cond-mat.str-el2019★ 129 cited

Bulk properties of van-der-Waals hard ferromagnet VI3

Suhan Son, Matthew J. Coak, Nahyun Lee +12

We present comprehensive measurements of the structural, magnetic and electronic properties of layered van-der-Waals ferromagnet VI down to low temperatures. Despite belonging…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 24 cited

Quantum Critical Phenomena in a Compressible Displacive Ferroelectric

M J Coak, C R S Haines, C Liu +3

The dielectric and magnetic polarizations of quantum paraelectrics and paramagnetic materials have in many cases been found to initially increase with increasing thermal disorder a…

cond-mat.str-el2018★ 4 cited

Symmetry breaking and unconventional charge ordering in single crystal NaRuO

Arvind Yogi, C. I. Sathish, Hasung Sim +3

The interplay of charge, spin, and lattice degrees of freedom in matter leads to various forms of ordered states through phase transitions. An important subclass of these phenomena…