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Multiferroic Quantum Material Ba2Cu1-xMnxGe2O7(O?x?1) as a Potential Candidate for Frustrated Heisenberg Antiferromagnet

July 30, 2024
Author(s)
Henrik Thoma, Rajesh Dutta, Vladimir Hutanu, Veronica Granata, Rosalba Fittipaldi, Qiang Zhang, Jeffrey Lynn, Petr Cermak, Nazir Khan, Shibabrata Nandi, Manuel Angst
Multiferroic Ba2CuGe2O7 was anticipated as a potential member of the exciting group of materials hosting a skyrmion or vortex lattice because of its profound Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction (DMI) and the absence of single ion anisotropy (SIA). This phase

Magnetic skin effect in Pb(Fe1/2Nb1/2)O3

July 29, 2024
Author(s)
Guangyong Xu, Peter M. Gehring
Relaxor-ferroelectrics display exceptional dielectric properties resulting from the underlying random dipolar fields induced by strong chemical inhomogeneity. An unusual structural aspect of relaxors is a skin-effect where the near-surface region in single

Magnetic Skin Effect in Pb(Fe1/2Nb1/2)O3

July 29, 2024
Author(s)
Nathan Giles-Donovan, A. D. Hillier, K Ishida, B.V. Hampshire, S. Giblin, B. Roessli, Peter M. Gehring, Guangyong Xu, Xiaobing Li, Haosu Luo, Sandy Cochran, C. Stock
Relaxor-ferroelectrics display exceptional dielectric properties resulting from the underlying random dipolar fields induced by strong chemical inhomogeneity. An unusual structural aspect of relaxors is a skin-effect where the near-surface region in single

Uncovering the Timescales of Spin Reorientation in TbMn6Sn6

July 26, 2024
Author(s)
Sinead Ryan, Anya Grafov, Na Li, Hans Nembach, Justin Shaw, Hari Bhandari, Tika Kafle, Richa Sapkota, Henry Kapteyn, Nirmal Ghimire, Margaret Murnane
TbMn6Sn¬6 is a ferrimagnetic material which exhibits a highly unusual phase transition near room temperature where spins remain collinear while the total magnetic moment rotates from out-of-plane to in-plane. The mechanisms underlying this phenomenon have

Superconducting phase diagram in BixNi1-x thin films: the effects of Bi stoichiometry on superconductivity

July 25, 2024
Author(s)
Jihun Park, Jarryd Horn, Dylan Kirsch, Rohit Pant, Hyeok Yoon, Sungha Baek, suchismita sarker, Apurva Mehta, Xiaohang Zhang, Seunghun Lee, Richard Greene, Johnpierre Paglione, Ichrio Takeuchi
The Bi–Ni binary system has been of interest due to possible unconventional superconductivity aroused therein, such as time-reversal symmetry breaking in Bi/Ni bilayers or the coexistence of superconductivity and ferromagnetism in Bi3Ni crystals. While Ni

Intertwined Charge and Spin Density Waves in a Topological Kagome Material

July 22, 2024
Author(s)
Y. Chen, Jonathan N. Gaudet, G. Marcus, T. Nomoto, T. Chen, T. Tomita, M. Ikhlas, H. Suzuki, Yang Zhao, Wangchun Chen, J. Strempfer, R. Arita, S. Nakatsuji, Collin L. Broholm
Using neutrons and x rays we show the topological kagome antiferromagnet Mn3Sn for T 285 K forms a homogeneous spin and charge ordered state comprising a longitudinally polarized spin density wave with wave vector kβ = kβ ˆc, a helical modulated version

Effects of Dimensionality on the Electronic Structure of Ruddlesden-Popper Chromates Srn+1CrnO3n+1

July 18, 2024
Author(s)
Spencer Doyle, Lerato Takana, Margaret Anderson, Dan Segedin, Hesham El-Sherif, Charles Brooks, Xiaoping Wang, Padraic Shafer, Alpha N'Diaye, Ismail El Baggari, William Ratcliff, Andres Cano, Quintin Meier, Julia Mundy
Transition-metal oxides host a wide variety of electronic phenomena that can be significantly influenced by the effective dimensionality of the system under consideration. These include charge, spin, and orbital orderings, as well as unconventional

Coexistence of Superconductivity and Antiferromagnetism in Topological Magnet MnBi2Te4 Films

July 3, 2024
Author(s)
Wei Yuan, Zi-Jie Yan, Hemian Yi, Zihao Wang, Stephen Paolini, Yi-Fan Zhao, Ling-Jie Zhou, Annie G. Wang, Ke Wang, Thomas Prokscha, Zaher Salman, Andreas Suter, Purnima Balakrishnan, Alexander Grutter, Laurel E. Winter, John Singleton, Moses H. Chan, Cui-Zu Chang
The interface of two materials can harbor unexpected emergent phenomena. One example is interface-induced superconductivity. In this work, we employ molecular beam epitaxy to grow a series of heterostructures formed by stacking together two

Synthesis and characterization of the novel breathing pyrochlore compound Ba3Tm2Zn5O11

July 3, 2024
Author(s)
Lalit Yadav, Rabindranath Bag, Ramesh Dhakal, Stephen Winter, Jeffrey Rau, Alexander Kolesnikov, Andrey Podlesnyak, Craig Brown, Nicholas Butch, David Graf, Michel Gingras, Sara Haravifard
In this study, a novel material from the rare-earth based breathing pyrochlore family, Ba3Tm2Zn5O11, was successfully synthesized. Powder X-ray diffraction and high-resolution powder neutron diffraction confirmed phase purity and crystal structure, while

Single-Component Superconductivity in UTe2 at Ambient Pressure

July 1, 2024
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 previously been inferred to have a multi-component order parameter, in part due to the apparent presence of a two-step

Absence of a Bulk Thermodynamic Phase Transition to aDensity Wave Phase in UTe2

June 20, 2024
Author(s)
Florian Theuss, Avi Shragai, Gael Grissonnanche, Luciano Peralta, Ian Hayes, Shanta Saha, Yun Eo, Alonso Suarez, Andrea Capa Salinas, Ganesh Pokharel, Stephen Wilson, Nicholas Butch, Johnpierre Paglione
Competing and intertwined orders are ubiquitous in strongly correlated electron systems, such as the charge, spin, and superconducting orders in the high-Tc cuprates. Recent scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) measurements provide evidence for a charge

Predicting the toughness of compatibilized polymer blends

June 19, 2024
Author(s)
Robert Ivancic, Debra Audus
Polymer blends can yield superior materials by merging the unique properties of their components. However, these mixtures often phase separate, leading to brittleness. While compatibilizers can toughen these blends, their vast design space makes

Hybrid Magnon-Phonon Localization Enhances Function near Ferroic Glassy States

June 14, 2024
Author(s)
Michael Manley, Paul Stonaha, Nickolaus Bruno, Ibrahim Karaman, Raymundo Arroyave, Songxue Chi, Douglas Abernathy, Matthew Stone, Yuri Chumlyakov, Jeffrey Lynn
Ferroic materials on the verge of forming ferroic glasses exhibit heightened functionality that is often attributed to competing long- and short-range correlations. However, the physics underlying these enhancements is not well understood. The Ni45Co5Mn36

Inelastic Neutron Scattering Study of Field Dependence of Magnetic Excitations in CoTiO3

May 28, 2024
Author(s)
Bo Yuan, Ezekiel Horsley, M. B. Stone, Nicholas Butch, Guangyong Xu, Guo-Jiun Shu, J. P. Clancy, Young-June Kim
We report field-dependent high-resolution inelastic neutron scattering (INS) measurements on the honeycomb lattice magnet, CoTiO3, to study the evolution of its magnon excitations across a spin reorientation transition driven by an in-plane magnetic field

Inhomogeneous High Temperature Melting and Decoupling of Charge Denisty Waves in Spin-Triplet Superconductor UTe2

May 25, 2024
Author(s)
Alexander LaFleur, Hong Li, Corey Frank, Muxian Xu, Siyu Cheng, Ziqiang Wang, Nicholas Butch, Ilija Zeljkovic
Charge, spin and Cooper-pair density waves have now been widely detected in exotic superconductors. Understanding how these density waves emerge — and become suppressed by external parameters—is a key research direction in condensedmatter physics. Here we

Effects of Stray Magnetic Field on Transition-edge Sensors in Gamma-ray Microcalorimeters

May 19, 2024
Author(s)
Mark Keller, Abigail Wessels, Dan Becker, Douglas Bennett, Matthew Carpenter, Mark Croce, Jozsef Imrek, Johnathon Gard, John Mates, Kelsey Morgan, Nathan Ortiz, Dan Schmidt, Katherine Schreiber, Daniel Swetz, Joel Ullom
Superconducting transition-edge sensors (TESs) used in x-ray and γ-ray microcalorimeters suffer degraded performance if cooled in a magnetic field B sufficient to trap flux in the sensors. We report measurements of γ-ray TESs before and after implementing

Understanding the Origin and Implication of the Indirect-to-Direct Bandgap Transition in Multilayer InSe

May 2, 2024
Author(s)
Nicholas Pike, Ruth Pachter, Michael Altvater, Chris Stevens, Matthew Klein, Joshua Hendrickson, Huairuo Zhang, Sergiy Krylyuk, Albert Davydov, Nicholas Glavin
Indium selenide (InSe) multilayers have attracted much interest recently due to their electronic and optical properties, partially dependent on the existence of an indirect-to-direct bandgap transition that is correlated to the multilayer thickness. In

Tuning the Spontaneous Exchange Bias Effect in La1.5Sr0.5CoMnO6 with Sintering Temperature

April 24, 2024
Author(s)
C Macchiutti, J Jesus, F Carneiro, L Bufaical, Ryan Klein, Q. Zhang, M Kirkham, Craig Brown, R dos Reis, G. Perez, E. Bittar
Here, we present a study of the influence of microstructure on the magnetic properties of polycrystalline samples of the La1.5Sr0.5CoMnO6 double perovskite, with primary attention to the spontaneous exchange bias effect, a fascinating recently discovered

Orphan high field superconductivity in non-superconducting uranium ditelluride.

April 20, 2024
Author(s)
Corey Frank, Sylvia Lewin, Gicela Saucedo Salas, Peter Czajka, Ian Hayes, Hyeok Yoon, Tristin Metz, Johnpierre Paglione, John Singleton, Nicholas Butch
Reentrant superconductivity is an uncommon phenomenon in which the destructive effects of magnetic field on superconductivity are mitigated, allowing a zero-resistance state to survive under conditions that would otherwise destroy it. Typically, the

A multi-edge study: investigating Co oxidation states of pristine LiNixMnyCo1-x-yO2 cathode materials by high energy-resolution X-ray spectrometry

March 14, 2024
Author(s)
Karina Bzheumikhova, Claudia Zech, Kai Schuler, John Vinson, Yves Kayser, Burkhard Beckhoff
The investigation of Co oxidation states in pristine LiNixMnyCo1−x−yO2 (NMC) cathodes (NMC111, NMC622, NMC811) has been a subject of ongoing debate, with conflicting findings in the literature. In this study, we present a novel and comprehensive approach

DC to GHz measurements of a near-ideal 2D material: P+ monolayers

March 8, 2024
Author(s)
Neil M. Zimmerman, Antonio Levy, Pradeep Namboodiri, Joshua M. Pomeroy, Xiqiao Wang, Joseph Fox, Richard M. Silver
P+ monolayers in Si are of great scientific and technological interest, both intrinsically as a material in the "ideal vacuum" of crystalline Si, and because they are showing great promise as qubits of electron and nuclear spin. The GHz complex

Isotopic effects on in-plane hyperbolic phonon polaritons in MoO3

March 4, 2024
Author(s)
Jeremy Schultz, Sergiy Krylyuk, Jeffrey Schwartz, Albert Davydov, Andrea Centrone
Hyperbolic phonon polaritons (HPhPs), hybrids of light and lattice vibrations in polar dielectric crystals, empower nano-photonic applications by enabling the confinement and manipulation of light at the nanoscale. Molybdenum trioxide (α-MoO3) is a