Pembroke Lecturer’s Paper Selected as Editor’s Choice in Physical Review Letters

Research by Pembroke Stipendiary Lecturer Dr Diprajan Chatterjee has recently been published in the prestigious journal Physical Review Letters. 

Titled ‘Emergence of a Fluctuating Ground State in Y-Kapellasite under Pressure’, Dr Chatterjee’s paper is an important step in understanding quantum magnetism and quantum interactions in materials under pressure. 

Magnetism plays a central role in Physics, and at the quantum level, antiferromagnetic interactions between spins in frustrated lattices can give rise to an exotic quantum spin-liquid state. How can we differentiate between the roles of disorder and intrinsic geometric frustration in producing spin-liquid behaviour? This is the challenge Dr Chatterjee sought to address in his paper. 

As part of this research, Dr Chatterjee and his group conducted muon spin relaxation studies at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), the largest research institute for natural and engineering sciences in Switzerland. His study features both as an Editor’s Choice in Physical Review Letters as well as the ESRF’s Spotlight on Science, highlighting the impact of his research.

Congratulations to Dr Chatterjee on this achievement.