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Nicholas Butch (Fed)

Nicholas P. Butch

At the NCNR, I am an instrument contact for NG-4 DCS. I primarily support experiments involving unconventional magnetism and what might be generally termed hard condensed matter physics. If you are thinking of doing a measurement on DCS, you are encouraged to contact me before proposal submission to discuss experimental details.

For more information about my personal research, please visit the NPB homepage.

Positions Available

Recent or upcoming PhD graduates who are interested in postdoctoral research focusing on novel superconductivity, magnetism, and/or quantum phase transitions through a variety of techniques ranging from sample synthesis to neutron scattering are invited to apply for a NRC postdocdoral fellowship.

For more details, please contact nicholas.butch [at] nist.gov (Dr. Butch).

NIST contact info

Dr. Nicholas Butch
NIST Center for Neutron Research
100 Bureau Drive
Gaithersburg, MD 20899-6102

(301) 975 - 4863 

nicholas.butch [at] nist.gov (nicholas[dot]butch[at]nist[dot]gov) 

Awards

Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2017)

NIST Sigma Xi Katharine B. Gebbie Young Scientist Award (2016)

Publications

Pair Wave Function Symmetry in UTe2 from Zero-Energy Surface State Visualization

Author(s)
Qiangqiang Gu, Shuqiu Wang, Joseph Carroll, Kuanysh Zhussupbekov, Christopher Broyles, Sheng Ran, Nicholas Butch, Jarryd Horn, Shanta Saha, Johnpierre Paglione, Xiaolong Liu, J. Davis, Dung-Hai Lee
Although nodal spin-triplet topological superconductivity appears probable in uranium ditelluride (UTe2), its superconductive order parameter Δk remains

Robust Nodal Behavior in the Thermal Conductivity of Superconducting UTe2

Author(s)
Ian Hayes, Tristin E. Metz, Corey Frank, Shanta R. Saha, Nicholas Butch, Vivek Mishra, P. Hirschfeld, Johnpierre Paglione
The superconducting state of the heavy-fermion metal UTe2 has attracted considerable interest because of evidence of spin-triplet Cooper pairing and nontrivial

Odd-Parity Quasiparticle Interference in the Superconductive Surface State of UTe2

Author(s)
Shuqiu Wang, Kuanysh Zhussupbekov, Joseph Carroll, Bin Hu, Xiaolong Liu, Emile Pangburn, Adeline Crepieux, Cathrine Pepin, Christopher Broyles, Sheng Ran, Nicholas Butch, Shanta Saha, Johnpierre Paglione, Cristina Bena, J. Davis, Qiangqiang Gu
Although no known material exhibits intrinsic topological superconductivity, wherein spin-triplet odd-parity electron pairing occurs, UTe2 is now the leading

Tuning a magnetic energy scale with pressure and field in UTe2

Author(s)
Hyunsoo Kim, I-Lin Liu, Wen-Chen Lin, Yun Eo, Sheng Ran, Nicholas Butch, Johnpierre Paglione
When a fragile ordered state is suppressed to zero temperature, a quantum phase transition occurs, which is often marked by the appearance of unconventional
Created May 31, 2018, Updated December 8, 2022
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