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Leland Harriger (Fed)

Physicist

Leland Harriger is a hard condensed matter physicist in the spectroscopy group at the NIST Center for Neutron Research (NCNR). He joined the NCNR in 2012 as an instrument scientist on the SPINS cold triple axis spectrometer. In 2016 he began designing the new cold spectrometer (PoLAR) that will replace SPINS on the NG-5 beamline. Other roles include the Director of Education and Outreach (2022 - present) and Chair of the Beam Experiment Subcommittee (2019 - present)

Publications

Frustrated Magnetic Interactions and Quenched Spin Fluctuations in CrAs

Author(s)
Yayuan Qin, Yao Shen, Yiqing Hao, Hongliang Wo, Shoudong Shen, Russell A. Ewings, Yang Zhao, Leland Harriger, Jeffrey Lynn, Jun Zhao
The discovery of pressure-induced superconductivity in helimagnets (CrAs, MnP) has attracted significant interest in understanding the relationship between

Dynamics of Molecular Associates in Methanol/Water Mixtures

Author(s)
Yanqin Zhai, Peng Luo, Jackson Waller, Jeffrey L. Self, Leland Harriger, Y. Z., Antonio Faraone
The dynamics of molecular associates in methanol/water mixtures was investigated using quasielastic neutron scattering. By measuring the signal from four

Spin Stripe Order in a Square Planar Trilayer Nickelate

Author(s)
Junjie Zhang, D. M. Pajerowski, A. S. Botana, Hong Zheng, Leland Harriger, Jose Rodriguez Rivera, J. Ruff, N. J. Schreiber, B. Wang, Yu-Sheng Chen, Wangchun Chen, M. R. Norman, S. Rosenkranz, J. F. Mitchell, D. Phelan
Trilayer nickelates, which exhibit a high degree of orbital polarization combined with an electron (d 8.67) corresponding to overdoped cuprates, have been
Created May 31, 2018, Updated January 11, 2023