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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

Single-Component Superconductivity in UTe2 at Ambient Pressure

Author(s)
Florian Theuss, Avi Shragai, Gael Grissonnanche, Ian Hayes, Shanta Saha, Yun Eo, Alonso Suarez, Tatsuya Shishidou, Nicholas Butch, Johnpierre Paglione, B. Ramshaw
The microscopic mechanism of Cooper pairing in a superconductor leaves its fingerprint on the symmetry of the order parameter. UTe2 has been inferred to have a

Single-Component Superconductivity in UTe2 at Ambient Pressure

Author(s)
Florian Theuss, Avi Shragai, Gael Grissonnanche, Ian Hayes, Shanta Saha, Yun Eo, Alonso Suaraz, Tatsuya Shishidou, Nicholas Butch, Johnpierre Paglione, B. Ramshaw
The microscopic mechanism of Cooper pairing in a superconductor leaves its fingerprint on the symmetry of the order parameter. UTe2 has been inferred to have a

Tuning a magnetic energy scale with pressure in UTe2

Author(s)
Hyunsoo Kim, I-Lin Liu, Wen-Chen Lin, Yun Eo, Sheng Ran, Nicholas Butch, Johnpierre Paglione
A fragile ordered state can be easily tuned by various external parameters. When the ordered state is suppressed to zero temperature, a quantum phase transition

Detection of a Pair Density Wavestate in UTe2

Author(s)
Qiangqiang Gu, Joseph Carroll, Shuqiu Wang, Sheng Ran, Christopher Broyles, Hasan Siddiquee, Nicholas Butch, Shanta Saha, Johnpierre Paglione, J. Davis, Xiaolong Liu
Created May 31, 2018, Updated December 8, 2022