Professor Stephen Blundell

Stephen’s research is concerned with using muon-spin rotation and other magnetic techniques to study a range of organic and inorganic materials, especially those showing interesting magnetic, superconducting, or dynamical properties. He is particularly interested in seeing how quantum properties can be realised in condensed matter systems. Recently he has been developing a technique called DFT+μ for understanding muon sites and also working on a project to upgrade Oxford’s Pulsed Field system to generate very high magnetic fields.

Muons and Magnets Research Group page

• ‘Magnetic order and ballistic spin transport in a sine-Gordon spin chain’, BM Huddart, M Gomilšek, TJ Hicken, FL Pratt, SJ Blundell, PA Goddard, S J Kaech, J L Manson, and T Lancaster in Physical Review B 103, L060405 (2021).
• ‘Magnetic ground state of the one-dimensional ferromagnetic chain compounds M(NCS)2(thiourea)2 (M = Ni, Co)’, SPM Curley, R Scatena, RC Williams, PA Goddard, P Mac-chi, TJ Hicken, T Lancaster, F Xiao, SJ Blundell, V Zapf, JC Eckert, EH Krenkel, JA Villa, ML Rhodehouse, and JL Manson in Physical Review Materials 5, 034401 (2021).
• ‘The internal field in a ferromagnetic crystal with chiral molecular packing of achiral organic radicals’, SJ Blundell, T Lancaster, PJ Baker, FL Pratt, D Shiomi, K Sato and T Takui in Magnetochemistry 7, 71 (2021).
• Muon Spectroscopy: An Introduction ed SJ Blundell, R De Renzi, T Lancaster, FL Pratt (Oxford University Press, 2021)
• ‘Information and Decoherence in a Muon-Fluorine Coupled System’ JM Wilkinson and SJ Blundell, in Phys Rev Lett 12, 087201 (2020).

Stephen’s publications