This is Jeremi Dudemaine while he is growing growing a quantum magnet in our optical floating zone furnace. In our laboratory, we use a variety of techniques to grow quantum materials, where we use solid state chemistry techniques to create interesting “Hamiltonians” so to speak.

We then characterize our samples using thermodynamic measurements such as magnetization and specific heat as well as electrical transport. The image shows a mm-sized sample for resistivity measurements on a puck which is mounted in a platform that gives us access to cryogenic temperatures, down to 300mK, as well as magnetic fields of up to 9T.

Once characterized, we travel to neutron sources where we apply for beamtime for detailed studies. This is a picture of Alexandre Désilets-Benoit in the SANS-I cabin at PSI in Villigen, Switzerland rocking Canadian pride swag on Canada Day. Here we were looking at the vortex lattice of a unconventional superconductor. We also use muon spectroscopy for which we travel to TRIUMF in Vacouver, Canada.