Higgins Hall 330E
Telephone: 617-552-4128
Email: michael.graf@bc.edu
ORCID 0000-0002-3977-3006
Experimental condensed-matter physics, including: superconductivity, magnetism, and their correlation in heavy-fermion systems, quantum confinement effects in nanostructured metals and semi-metals; and quantum tunneling of magnetization in Ho3+ ions diluted into LiYF4.
“Effect of structural disorder on the Kitaev magnet Ag3LiIr2O6,” F. Bahrami†, E. M. Kenney†, C. Wang, A. Berlie, O. I. Lebedev, M. J. Graf, and F. Tafti, Phys. Rev. B 103, 094427 (2021).† co-first authors
“Absence of local moments in the kagome metal KV3Sb5 as determined by muon spin spectroscopy,” E. M. Kenney, B. R. Ortiz, C. Wang, S. D. Wilson, and M. J. Graf, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 33, 235801 (2021).
“Superconductivity in the Z2 kagome metal KV3Sb5,” B. R. Ortiz, P. M. Sarte, E. M. Kenney, S. M. L. Teicher, R. Seshadri, M. J. Graf, and S. D. Wilson, Phys. Rev. Mat. 5, 034801 (2021).
"Monopole-limited nucleation of magnetism in Eu2Ir2O7," Physical Review B 101, 174435 (2020).
Competition between static and dynamic magnetism in the Kitaev spin liquid material Cu2IrO3, E. M. Kenney, C. U. Segre, W. Lafargue-Dit-Hauret, O. I. Lebedev, M. Abramchuk, A. Berlie, S. P. Cottrell, G. Simutis, F. Bahrami, N. E. Mordvinova, J. McChesney, G. Fabbris, D. Haskel, X. Rocquefelte, M. J. Graf, and F. Tafti, Phys. Rev. B 100, 094418 (2019) [Editor’s selection].
Field-tunable quantum disordered ground state in the triangular lattice antiferromagnet NaYbO2, M. Bordelon, E. M. Kenney, T. Hogan, L. Posthuma, M. Kavand, Y. Lyu, M. Sherwin, C. Brown, M. J. Graf, L. Balents, and S. D. Wilson, Nature Physics 15, 1058 (2019).
Suppression of μ+ depolarization by fast magnetic fluctuations at avoided level crossings for Ho3+ ions in CaWO4, E. Kenney, A. Amato, S. R. Giblin, B. Z. Malkin, and M. J. Graf, Phys. Rev. B 98, 134424 (2018).
Quasistatic antiferromagnetism in the quantum wells of SmTiO3/SrTiO3 heterostructures, R. F. Need, P. B. Marshall, E. Kenney, A. Suter, T. Prokscha, Z. Salman, B. J. Kirby, S. Stemmer, M. J. Graf, and S. D. Wilson, npj Quantum Materials 3, 7 (2018).
Spin Dynamics in the Single-Ion Magnet [Er(W5O18)2]9-, M. Mariani, F. Borsa, M. J. Graf, S. Sanna, M. Filibian, T. Orlando, K. P. V. Sabareesh, S. Cardona, E. Coronado, and A. Lascialfari, Phys. Rev. B 97, 144414 (2018).
Spiral Modes and the Observation of Quantized Conductance in the Surface Bands of Bismuth Nanowires, T. E. Huber, S. Johnson, L. Konopko, A. Nikolaeva, A. Kobylianskaya, and M. J. Graf, Scientific Reports 7, 15569 (2017).
Evolution of Magnetism in LnCuGa3 (Ln = La – Nd, Sm – Gd) Studied via µSR and Specific Heat, M. J. Graf, J. D. Hettinger, K. Nemeth, R. Dally, C. Baines, U. Subbarao, and S. C. Peter, J. Magn. Magn. Mater. 444, 236 (2017).
Disordered dimer state in electron-doped Sr3Ir2O7, T. Hogan, R. Dally, M. Upton, J. P. Clancy, K. Finkelstein, Y.-J. Kim, M. J. Graf, and S. D. Wilson, Phys. Rev. B 94, 100401(R) (2016).
Influence of hydrostatic pressure on the bulk magnetic properties of Eu2Ir2O7, G. Prando, R. Dally, W. Schottenhamel, Z. Guguchia, S.-H. Baek, R. Aeschlimann, A.U.B. Wolter, S. D. Wilson, B. Büchner, and M. J. Graf, Phys. Rev. B 93, 104422 (2016).
Short-Range Correlations in the Magnetic Ground State of Na4Ir3O8 , R. Dally, T. Hogan, A. Amato, H. Leutkens, C. Baines, J. Rodriguez-Rivera, M. J. Graf, and S. D. Wilson, Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 247601 (2014).
Magnetic Order in the Pyrochlore Iridates A2Ir2O7 (A = Y, Yb), S. M. Disseler, C. Dhital, A. Amato, S. R. Giblin, C. de la Cruz, S. D. Wilson, and M. J. Graf, Phys. Rev. B 86, 014428 (2012).
Evolution of spin relaxation processes in LiY1-xHoxF4 with increasing x studied via ac-susceptibility and muon spin relaxation, R. C. Johnson, B. Z. Malkin, J. S. Lord, S. R. Giblin, A. Amato, C. Baines, A. Lascialfari, B. Barbara, and M. J. Graf, Phys. Rev. B 86, 014427 (2012).