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  • Long-range magnetic order in CeRu2Al10 studied via muon spin relaxation and neutron diffraction 
    Khalyavin, D. D.; Hillier, A. D.; Adroja, D. T.; Strydom, A. M.; Manuel, P.; Chapon, L. C.; Peratheepan, P.; Night, K.; Deen, P.; Ritter, C.; Muro, Y.; Takabatake, T. (Physical Review, 2010)
    The low temperature state of CeRu2Al10 has been studied by neutron powder diffraction and muon spin relaxation (muSR). By combining both techniques, we prove that the transition occurring below T*~27K, which has been the ...
  • Mixed potentials in radiative stellar collapse 
    Thirukkanesh, S.; Maharaj, S. D. (Journal of Mathematical Physics, 2010)
    We study the behaviour of a radiating star when the interior expanding, shearing fluid particles are traveling in geodesic motion. We demonstrate that it is possible to obtain new classes of exact solutions in terms of ...
  • Electronic correlation effects in LnFe2Al10 (Ln = Y, Yb) 
    Strydom, A. M.; Peratheepan, P.; Sarkar, R.; Baenitz, M.; Steglich, F. (Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 2011)
    We report on physical properties of the two new iron aluminides YFe2Al10 and YbFe2Al10. They are members of a broader rare-earth based family of intermetallics in which unusual properties have been the subject of considerable ...
  • Shearing radiative collapse with expansion and acceleration 
    Thirukkanesh, S.; Rajah, S. S.; Maharaj, S. D. (Journal of Mathematical Physics, 2012)
    We investigate the behaviour of a relativistic spherically symmetric radiative star with an accelerating, expanding and shearing interior matter distribution in the presence of anisotropic pressures. The junction condition ...
  • The final outcome of dissipative collapse in the presence of Λ, PRAMANA 
    Thirukkanesh, S.; Moopanar, S.; Govender, M (journal of Physics, 2012)
    We investigate the role played by the cosmological constant during gravitational collapse of a radiating star with vanishing Weyl stresses in the interior. We highlight the role played by the cosmological constant during ...
  • The potential for ultrasound to improve nanoparticle dispersion and increase flame resistance in fibre-forming polymers 
    Horrocks, A. R.; Kandola, B.; Milnes, G. J.; Sitpalan, A.; Hadimani, R. L. (Journal of Polymer Degradation and Stability, 2012)
    The effects of exposing to ultrasound compounded melts of polypropylene (PP) and polyamide 6 (PA6) formulations comprising nanoclays both alone and in the presence of other flame retardants are explored in terms of their ...
  • Exact anisotropic sphere with polytropic equation of state 
    Thirukkanesh, S.; Ragel, F. C. (Pramana-Journal of Physics, 2012)
    We study static spherically symmetric spacetime to describe compact objects with anisotropic matter distribution. We express the system of Einstein field equations as a new system of differential equations using a coordinate ...
  • The role of the electromagnetic field in dissipative collapse 
    Thirukkanesh, S; Govender, M (International Journal of Modern Physics, 2013)
    In this paper, we investigate the effect of charge on the collapse of a radiating, shearing sphere. The junction conditions required for the smooth matching of a general spherically symmetric spacetime (in the absence of ...
  • Competing 4f-electron dynamics in Ce(Ru1-xFex) 2Al10 (0≤x≤1.0): Magnetic ordering emerging from the Kondo semiconducting state 
    Adroja, D. T.; Hillier, A. D.; Muro, Y.; Kajino, J.; Takabatake, T.; Peratheepan, P.; Strydom, A. M.; Deen, P. P.; Demmel, F.; Stewart, J. R.; Taylor, J. W.; Smith, R. I.; Ramos, S.; Adams, M.A. (Physical Review, 2013)
    We have carried out muon spin relaxation (muSR), neutron diffraction and inelastic neutron scattering (INS) investigations on polycrystalline samples of Ce(Ru1-xFex)2Al10 (x=0, 0.3, 0.5, 0.8 and 1) to investigate the nature ...
  • Characterization of epitaxial Cr thin films 
    Prinsloo, A. R. E.; Sheppard, C. J.; Fernando, P. R.; Madau, P. (59th Annual Conference of the South African Institute of Physics, 2013)
    Thin films and heterostructures of Cr and Cr alloys show fascinating properties that is not observed in the bulk material and research into their magnetic properties gives insight into dimensionality effects in these ...
  • Effects of nanoparticles on the flame retardancy of the ammonium sulphamate-dipentaerythritol flame-retardant system in polyamide 6 
    Dahiya, J. B.; Kandola, B.; Sitpalan, A; Horrocks., A. R. (Journal of Polymer Advance Technology, 2013)
    This paper extends the work of Lewin et al., which showed that high levels of flame retardancy could be conferred on polyamide 6 (PA6) in the presence of small concentrations of ammonium sulphamate (AS) and dipentaerythritol ...
  • New Classes of Charged Spheroidal Models 
    Thirukkanesh, S (Journal of Astrophysics, 2013)
    New classes of exact solutions to the Einstein-Maxwell system is found in closed form by assuming that the hypersurface t =constant is spheroidal. This is achieved by choosing a particular form for the electric field ...
  • A class of exact strange quark star model 
    Thirukkanesh, S.; Ragel, F. C. (Pramana-Journal of Physics, 2013)
    Static spherically symmetric space-time is studied to describe dense compact star with quark matter within the framework of MIT Bag Model. The system of Einstein’s field equations for anisotropic matter is expressed as ...
  • Fluctuations and the ferromagnetic instability in YFe2Al10: the role of Fe stoichiometry 
    Strydom, A. M.; Khuntia, P.; Baenitz, M.; Peratheepan, P.; Steglich, F. (Physica Status, 2013)
    YFe2Al10 forms in a well-ordered crystal structure, with a unique site for the magnetic atom Fe. At elevated temperatures YFe2Al10 behaves electronically as a good metal. At low temperatures on the other hand, signatures ...
  • Hypergeometric Equation in Modeling Relativistic Isotropic Sphere 
    Thirukkanesh, S.; Ragel, F. C. (International Journal of Theoretical Physics, 2014)
    We study the Einstein system of equations in static spherically symmetric spacetimes. We obtained classes of exact solutions to the Einstein system by transforming the condition for pressure isotropy to a hypergeometric ...
  • Contiguous 3d and 4f Magnetism: strongly correlated 3d electrons in YbFe2Al10 
    Khuntia, P.; Peratheepan, P.; Strydom, A. M.; Utsumi, Y.; Tsuei, K. D.; Tjeng, L. H.; Steglich, F.; Baenitz, M. (Physical Review, 2014)
    We present magnetization, specific heat, and 27 Al NMR investigations on YbFe 2 Al 10 over a wide range in temperature and magnetic field. The magnetic susceptibility at low temperatures is strongly enhanced ...
  • Causal heat flow in Bianchi type-V Universe 
    Govender, M; Thirukkanesh, S. (International Journal of Modern Physics, 2014)
    In this paper we investigate the role of causal heat transport in a spatially homogeneous, locally-rotationally symmetric Bianchi type-V cosmological model. In particular, the causal temperature profile of the cosmological ...
  • Putative quantum criticality in the (Cr90Ir10)100-yVy alloy system 
    Fernando, P. R.; Prinsloo, A. R. E.; Sheppard, C. J.; Lodya, L. (Journal of Applied Physics, 2014)
    Quantum criticality (QC) in spin-density-wave antiferromagnetic Cr and Cr alloy systems is a topic of current interest. In the present study, V was used as a tuning parameter to drive the Néel transition temperature (TN) ...
  • Anisotropic compact sphere with Van der Waals equation of state 
    Thirukkanesh, S.; Ragel, F. C. (Astrophysics and Space Science, 2014)
    We formulate a system of field equations with Van der Waals type equation of state to the Einstein field equations in spherically symmetric static spacetime to describe anisotropic compact matter and obtain a new class of ...
  • Magnetic and transport studies on Cr100-xIrx alloys Single crystal 
    Fernando, P. R.; Sheppard, C. J.; Prinsloo, A. R. E. (59th Annual Conference of the South African Institute of Physics, 2014)
    Abstract An investigation into the physical properties of Cr100-xIrx alloy single crystals, with x = 0.7, 1.5, 2.0 and 2.5, were previously used to determine the magnetic phase diagram of Cr100-xIrx alloy system around ...

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