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Lattice Dynamics

We have worked on the lattice dynamics of many different types of systems: 

 

Lattice Dynamics of Gold, J. W. Lynn, H. G. Smith and R. M. Nicklow, Phys. Rev. B 8, 3493 (1973).

Neutron Scattering Study of the `One-Dimensional' Conductor K2Pt(CN)4Br0.3·3.2D20 (KCP), J. W. Lynn, M. Iizumi, G. Shirane, S. A. Werner and R. B. Saillant, Phys. Rev. B 12, 1154 (1975).

Neutron Scattering Study of the Lattice Dynamics of AgBr at 4.4 K, Y. Fujii, S. Hoshino, S. Sakuragi, H. Kanzaki, J. W. Lynn, and G. Shirane, Phys. Rev. B 15, 358 (1977).

Soft Rotary Mode and Structural Phase Transitions in K2ReCl6, J. W. Lynn, H. H. Patterson, G. Shirane and R. G. Wheeler, Solid State Comm. 27, 859 (1978).

Lattice Dynamics Study of Cs2SiF6 With Application to the Vibronic Optical Spectra of Cs2SiF6:MnF6 Systems, H. H. Patterson and J. W. Lynn, Phys. Rev. B 19, 1213 (1979).

Phonon Density of States and Superconductivity in (Nd1.85Ce0.15)2CuO4, J. W. Lynn, I. W. Sumarlin, D. A. Neumann, J. J. Rush, J. L. Peng, and Z. Y. Li, Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 919 (1991).

Phonon density of states in Pr2-xCexCuO4 and Pr2CuO4, I. W. Sumarlin, J. W. Lynn, D. A. Neumann, J. J. Rush, J. L. Peng, Z. Y. Li and S. J. Hagen, Physica C 185-189, 2571 (1991).

Phonon Density-of-States in R2CuO4 and Superconducting R1.85Ce0.15CuO4 (R = Nd, Pr), I. W. Sumarlin, J. W. Lynn, D. A. Neumann, J. J. Rush, C-K. Loong, J. L. Peng, and Z. Y. Li, Phys. Rev. B 48, 473 (1993).

Charge Melting and Polaron Collapse in La1.2Sr1.8Mn2O7, L. Vasiliu-Doloc, S. Rosenkranz, R. Osborn, S. K. Sinha, J. W. Lynn, J. Mesot, O. Seeck, G. Preosti, A. J. Fedro, and J. F. Mitchell, Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 4393 (1999).

Charge Ordering and Polaron Formation in La0.7Ca0.3MnO3, C. P. Adams, J. W. Lynn, Y. M. Mukovskii, A. A. Arsenov, and D. A. Shulyatev, Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3954 (2000).

Giant anharmonicity and non-linear electron-phonon coupling in MgB2:  Combined First-principles calculations and inelastic neutron scattering study, T. Yildirim, O. Gülseren, J. W. Lynn, C. M. Brown, T. J. Udovic, Q. Huang, N. Rogado, K.A. Regan, M.A. Hayward, J.S. Slusky, T. He, M.K. Haas, P. Khalifah, K. Inumaru, and R.J. Cava, Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 037001 (2001).

Glass Transition in the Polaron Dynamics in CMR Manganites, D. N. Argyriou, J. W. Lynn, R. Osborn, B. Campbell, J. F. Mitchell, U. Ruett, H. N. Bordallo, A. Wildes, and C. D. Ling, Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 036401 (2002).

Evolution of the Phonon Density-of-states and Electron-lattice Interaction in Nd2-xCexCuO4+d, H. J. Kang. P. Dai, D. Mandrus, R. Jin, H. A. Mook, D. T. Adroja, S. M. Bennington, S.-H. Lee and J. W. Lynn, Phys. Rev. B 66, 064506 (2002).

Structure and Dynamics of Superconducting NaxCoO2 Hydrate and Its Unhydrated Analog, J. W. Lynn, Q. Huang, C. M. Brown, V. L. Miller, M.L. Foo, R.E. Schaak, C. Y. Jones,.E. A. Mackey, and R. J. Cava, Phys. Rev. B 68, 214516 (2003).

Low-energy Phonons in TbNi2B2C and HoNi2B2C, A. Kreyssig, O. Stockert, D. Reznik, F. M. Woodward, J. W. Lynn, W. Reichardt, D. Souptel, G. Behr, and M. Loewenhaupt, Physica B 350, 69 (2004).

Correlated and Uncorrelated Nanoscale Lattice Distortions in the Paramagnetic Phase of Magnetoresistive Manganites, V. Kiryukhin, A. Borissov, J. S. Ahn, Q. Huang, J. W. Lynn, and S-W. Cheong, Phys. Rev. B 70, 214424 (2004).

Lattice and Spin Dynamics in bcc Fe, 10 at % Be, P. Zhao, J. Cullen, M. Wuttig, J. W. Lynn, T. A. Lograsso, and O.  Moze, J. Appl. Phys. 99, 08R101 (2006).

Dynamics of Water in the Na0.3CoO2·1.4H2O Superconductor, Victoria Garcia Sakai, Eugene Mamontov, J. W. Lynn, L. Viciu, and R. J. Cava, Phys. Rev. B 75, 014505 (2007).

Order and Dynamics of Intrinsic Nanoscale Inhomogeneities in Manganites, J. W. Lynn, D. N. Argyriou, Y. Ren, Y. Chen, Y. M. Mukovskii, and D. A. Shulyatev, Phys. Rev. B 76, 014437 (2007).

Intrinsically Localized Mode in a-uranium as a Precursor to a Solid-state Phase Transition, M. E. Manley, J. W. Lynn, Y. Chen, and G. H. Lander, Phys. Rev. B 77, 052301 (2008).

Active Creation of Intrinsically Localized Vibrations in Uranium using X-ray and Neutron Scattering, M. E. Manley, A. Alatas, F. Trouw, W. L. Hults, B. Leu, J. W. Lynn, and Y. Chen, (submitted).Phys. Rev. B 77, 214305 (2008).

Phonon softening and anomalous mode near the xc= 0.5 quantum critical point in Ca2-xSrxRuO4, R. G. Moore, M. D. Lumsden, M. B. Stone, Jiandi Zhang, Y. Chen, J. W. Lynn, R. Jin, D. Mandrus, and E. W. Plummer, Phys. Rev. B79, 085105 (2009).

Intrinsic Localized Modes Observed in the High Temperature Vibrational Spectrum of NaI, M. E. Manley, A. J. Sievers, J. W. Lynn, S. A. Kiselev, N. I. Agladze, Y. Chen, A. Llobet, and A. Alatas, Phys. Rev. B 79, 134304 (2009).

Soft Phonons and Structural Phase Transition in Superconducting Ba0.59K0.41BiO3, H. J. Kang, Y. S. Lee, J. W. Lynn, S. V. Shiryaev and S. N. Barilo, Physica C 471, 303 (2011).

Response of acoustic phonons to charge and orbital order in the 50% doped bilayer manganite LaSr2Mn2O7,  F. Weber, S. Rosenkranz, J. P. Castellan, R. Osborn, D. Reznik, H. Zheng, J. F. Mitchell, Y. Chen, and J. W. Lynn, Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 207202 (2011).

Phonon Localization Drives Polar Nanoregions in a Relaxor Ferroelectric, M. E. Manley, J. W. Lynn, E. D. Specht, O. Delaire, A. R. Bishop, R. Sahul, J. D. Budai, Nature Communications 5, 3863 (2014).

Observation of Drastic Change of Generalized Phonon Density-of-States in Nanostructured Half-Heusler using Neutron Inelastic Scattering, W. Wong-Ng, J. W. Lynn, Q. Huang, C. M. Brown, J.A. Kaduk, and G. Joshi, Appl. Phys. Lett. 107, 213901 (2015).

Absence of Magnetic field dependence of the anomalous bond-stretching phonon in YBa2Cu3O6.6, D. Reznik, D. Parshall, S.R. Park, J.W. Lynn, and Th.Wolf, J. Supercond. Novel Magnetism 29, 643 (2016).

Giant Electromechanical Coupling of  Relaxor Ferroelectrics Controlled by Polar-nanoregion Dynamics, Michael E. Manley, Douglas L. Abernathy, Raffi Sahul, Daniel E. Parshall, Jeffrey W. Lynn, Andrew D. Christianson, Paul J. Stonaha, Eliot D. Specht, and John D. Budai, Science Advances 2, e1501814 (2016).

Damping and softening of transverse acoustic phonons in colossal magnetoresistive La0.7Ca0.3MnO3, Joel S. Helton, Yang Zhao, Dmitry A. Shulyatev, and Jeffrey W. Lynn, Phys. Rev. B 99, 024407 (2019).

Response to comment on 'Giant electromechanical coupling of relaxor ferroelectrics controlled by polar nanoregion vibrations', M. E. Manley, D. L. Abernathy, A. D. Christianson, J. W. Lynn, Sci. Adv. 5, eaaw4367 (2019).

Intrinsic Anharmonic Localization in Thermoelectric PbSe, M. E. Manley, O. Hellman, N. Shulumba, A. F. May, P. J. Stonaha, J. W. Lynn, O. V. Garlea, A. Alatas, R. Hermann, J. D. Budai, B. C. Sales, A. J. Minnich, Nature Commun. 10, 1928 (2019).

Observation of plasmon-phonons in a metamaterial superconductor using inelastic neutron scattering, Vera N. Smolyaninova, Jeffrey W. Lynn, Nicholas P. Butch, Heather Chen-Mayer, Joseph C. Prestigiacomo, M. S. Osofsky, and Igor I. Smolyaninov, Phys Rev B 100, 024515 (2019).

Extremely Space and Time Restricted Thermal Transport in the High Temperature Cmcm phase of Thermoelectric SnSe, C.-H. Lee, M.-H. Ma, and W.-H. Li, P.-C. Wei, Y.-Y. Chen, Y. Zhao and J. W. Lynn, Materials Today Physics 11, 100171 (2019).

Topological Singularity-Induced Kohn Anomaly in a Weyl Semimetal, Thanh Nguyen, Fei Han, Nina Andrejevic, Ricardo Pablo-Pedro, Anuj Apte, Yoichiro Tsurimaki, Zhiwei Ding, Kunyan Zhang, Ahmet Alatas, Ercan Alp, Songxue Chi, Jaime Fernandez-Baca, Masaaki Matsuda, David A. Tennant, Yang Zhao, Zhijun Xu, Jeffrey W. Lynn, Shengxi Huang, and Mingda Li, Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 236401 (2020).

Controlling Phonon Lifetimes via Sublattice Disordering in AgBiSe2, J. L. Niedziela, D. Bansal, J. Ding, T. Lanigan-Atkins, C. Li, A. F. May, H. Wang, J. Y. Y. Lin, D. L. Abernathy, G. Ehlers, A. Huq, D. Parshall, J. W. Lynn, and O. Delaire, Phys. Rev. Materials 4, 105402 (2020).

Dual Lattice Incommensurabilities and Enhanced Lattice Perfection by Low-temperature Thermal Annealing in Photoelectric (CH3NH3)PbBr3, Wen-Hsien Li, Chi-Hung Lee, Tsu-Yin Ling, Ma-Hsuan Ma, Pai-Chun Wei, Jr-Hau He, Chun-Min Wu, Jen-Chih Peng, Guangyong Xu, Yang Zhao, Jeffrey W. Lynn, Phys. Rev. Materials 5, 025401 (2021).

Magnon-phonon hybrid enhances multicaloric effects near ferroic glassy states, M. E. Manley, P. J. Stonaha, N. M. Bruno, I. Karaman, R. Arroyave, S. Chi, D. L. Abernathy, M. B. Stone, Y. I. Chumlyakov, and J. W. Lynn, (submitted).

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