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Thermal properties and ultra-low thermal conductivity of Zn2GeSe4

March 11, 2025
Author(s)
Oluwagbemiga Ojo, Wilarachchige Gunatilleke, Adam Biacchi, Hsin Wang, George Nolas
Materials-related discovery continues to drive advancements in technologically significant fields of interest. Moreover, an understanding of the thermal properties of materials is essential for any application of interest. Here, we report on the structural

High-endurance bulk CMOS one-transistor cryo-memory

February 28, 2025
Author(s)
Alexander Zaslavsky, Pragya Shrestha, Valery Ortiz Jimenez, Jason Campbell, Curt Richter
Previously we reported a compact one-transistor (1T) 180 nm bulk CMOS cryo-memory with a high 10^7 I_1/I_0 memory window and long 800 s retention time based on impact-ionization-induced charging of the transistor body. Here, we present the endurance and

Quantum Emitters Induced by High Pressure and UV Laser Irradiation in Multilayer GaSe

February 14, 2025
Author(s)
Sinto Varghese, Sichenge Wang, Bimal Neupane, Bhojraj Bhandari, Yan Jiang, Roberto Gonzalez Rodriguez, Sergiy Krylyuk, Albert Davydov, Hao Yan, Yuanxi Wang, Anupama Kaul, Jingbiao Cui, Yuankun Lin
In this work, we report on defect generation in multilayer GaSe through hydrostatic pressure quenching and UV laser irradiation. The Raman line width from the UV 266 nm irradiated sample is much wider than that in pressure-quenched GaSe, corresponding to a

Electronic Commensuration of a Spin Moire Superlattice in a Layered Magnetic Semimetal

February 4, 2025
Author(s)
Takashi Kurumaji, Nisarga Paul, Shiang Fang, Paul Neves, Mingu Kang, Jonathan White, Taro Nakajima, David Graf, Linda Ye, Mun Chan, Takehito Suzuki, Jonathan Denlinger, Chris Jozwiak, Aaron Bostwick, Eli Rotenberg, Jeffrey Lynn, Efthimios Kaxiras, Riccardo Comin, Liang Fu, Joseph Checkelsky, Yang Zhao
Spin moiré superlattices (SMSs) have been proposed as a magnetic analog of crystallographic moiré systems and a source of electron minibands offering vector-field moiré tunability and Berry curvature effects. However, it has proven challenging to realize

Platinum Hydride Formation during Cathodic Corrosion in Aqueous Solutions

January 22, 2025
Author(s)
Thomas Hersbach, Angel T. Garcia-Esparza, Selwyn Hanselman, Thijs Hoogenboom, Ian McCrum, Dimitra Anastasiadou, Jeremey Feaster, Thomas Jaramillo, John Vinson, Thomas Kroll, Amanda Garcia, Petr Krtil, Dimosthenis Sokaras, Marc Koper
Cathodic corrosion is an electrochemical phenomenon that dramatically etches metals under commonly used electrocatalytic conditions. Though cathodic corrosion is thought to occur by forming a metal-containing anion, such an ion has not yet been observed

Tuning a magnetic energy scale with pressure and field in UTe2

January 8, 2025
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 superconductivity. While the quantum critical point can be hidden, the influence of the quantum

Connection between f-electron correlations and magnetic excitations in UTe2

January 4, 2025
Author(s)
Thomas Halloran, Peter Czajka, Gicela Saucedo Salas, Corey Frank, Jose Rodriguez Rivera, Daniel Mazzonne, Jakob Lass, Nicholas Butch
Abstract The detailed anisotropic dispersion of the low-temperature, low-energy magnetic excitations of the candidate spin-triplet superconductor UTe 2 is revealed using inelastic neutron scattering. The magnetic excitations emerge from the Brillouin zone

Time evolution of a pumped molecular magnet - a time resolved inelastic neutron scattering study

January 1, 2025
Author(s)
T. Reeder, Paraj Titum, J. Kindervater, Qiang Ye, Jose Rodriguez Rivera, Yiming Qiu, Nicholas C. Maliszewskyj, T. McQueen, Collin L. Broholm
ntroducing an experimental technique of time-resolved inelastic neutron scattering (TRINS), we explore the time-dependent effects of resonant pulsed microwaves on the molecular magnet Cr8F8Piv16. The octagonal rings of magnetic Cr3+ atoms with

Evidence of Antiferromagnetism in Ultrathin Metallic (111)-Oriented LaNiO3 Films

December 11, 2024
Author(s)
Margaret Kane, Purnima P. Balakrishnan, Okan Koksal, Megan Holtz, Andreas Suter, Michael R. Fitzsimmons, Chao-Yao Yang, Christoph Klewe, Paige Quarterman, Timothy R. Charlton, Andrew Herzing, Zaher Salman, Thomas Prokscha, Rossitza Pentcheva, Alexander Grutter, Yuri Suzuki
Antiferromagnets with exotic spin textures promise low-power spintronic devices with extremely high operating frequencies and resistance to external perturbations. In particular, the combination of highly tunable correlated electron physics, as in complex

Magneto-Ionic Physical Reservoir Computing

December 9, 2024
Author(s)
Md Mahadi Rajib, Dhritiman Bhattacharya, Christopher Jensen, Gong Chen, Fahim F. Chowdhury, Shouvik Sarkar, Kai Liu, Jayasimha Atulashimha
Recent progresses in magneto-ionics offer exciting potentials to leverage its non-linearity, short-term memory, and energy-efficiency to uniquely advance the field of physical reservoir computing. In this work, we experimentally demonstrate the

Synthesis and Characterization of the Novel Breathing Pyrochlore Compound Ba3Tm2Zn5O11

December 6, 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 the F ¯43m breathing

Field-Angle Evolution of the Superconducting and Magnetic Phases of UTe2 around the b Axis

November 27, 2024
Author(s)
Sylvia Lewin, Josephine Yu, Corey Frank, David Graf, Patrick Chen, Sheng Ran, Yun Eo, Johnpierre Paglione, S. Raghu, Nicholas Butch
We experimentally determine the bounds of the magnetic-field-induced superconducting and magnetic phases near the crystalline b axis of uranium ditelluride (UTe2). By measuring the magnetoresistance as a function of rotation angle and field strength in

Manipulating Interface Magnetism in Manganite Thin Film Membranes by Substrate Surface Chemistry

November 13, 2024
Author(s)
Purnima P. Balakrishnan, Qinwen Lu, Qing Wang, Shinichiro N. Muramoto, Paige Quarterman, Michael R. Fitzsimmons, Timothy R. Charlton, Xiaofang Zhai, Alexander Grutter
We demonstrate an unexpected substrate dependence of the magnetic properties of complex oxide thin film membranes. While the tunable magnetism of complex oxides is attractive for many applications, device integration has long been limited by the strict

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

October 30, 2024
Author(s)
Nathan Giles-Donovan, A. D. Hillier, K Ishida, B. V. Hampshire, S. R. Giblin, B. Roessli, Peter Gehring, Guangyong Xu, Xiaobing Li, Haosu Luo, Sandy Cochran, Christopher 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

Spectroscopy of photoionization from the 1E singlet state in nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond

October 17, 2024
Author(s)
Sean Blakley, Thuc Mai, Stephen Moxim, Jason Ryan, Adam Biacchi, Angela Hight Walker, Robert McMichael
The 1E—1A1 singlet manifold of the negatively charged nitrogen vacancy (NV −) center in diamond plays a central role in the quantum information and quantum sensing applications of the NV − center. However, the energy of this manifold within the diamond

Absence of a Bulk Signature of a Charge Density Wave in Hard X-ray Measurements of UTe2

October 9, 2024
Author(s)
Caitlin Kengle, Dipanjan Chaudhuri, Xuefei Guo, Thomas Johnson, Simon Bettler, Wolfgang Simeth, Matthew Krogstad, Zahir Islam, Sheng Ran, Shanta Saha, Johnpierre Paglione, Nicholas Butch, Eduardo Fradkin, Vidya Madhavan, Peter Abbamonte
The long-sought pair density wave (PDW) is an exotic phase of matter in which charge density wave (CDW) order is intertwined with the amplitude or phase of coexisting, superconducting order. Originally predicted to exist in copper-oxides, circumstantial

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

October 9, 2024
Author(s)
Florian Theuss, Avi Shragai, Gael Grissonnanche, Luciano Peralta, Gregorio de la Fuente Simarro, Ian Hayes, Shanta Saha, Yun Eo, Alonso Suarez, Andrea Capa Salinas, Ganesh Pokharel, Stephen Wilson, Nicholas Butch, Johnpierre Paglione, B. Ramshaw
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

Topological Hall Effect Induced by Chiral Fluctuations in ErMn6Sn6

September 24, 2024
Author(s)
Kyle Fruhling, Alenna Streeter, Sougata Mardanya, Xiaoping Wang, Priya Baral, Oksana Zaharko, Igor Mazin, Sugata Chowdhury, William Ratcliff, Fazel Tafti
Topological Hall effect (THE) is a hallmark of scalar spin chirality, which is found in static skyrmion lattices. Recent theoretical works have shown that scalar spin chirality could also emerge dynamically from thermal spin fluctuations. Evidence of such

Unusually strong near-infrared photoluminescence of highly transparent bulk InSe flakes

September 23, 2024
Author(s)
Jamie Geng, Dehui Zhang, Inha Kim, Hyong Min Kim, Naoiki Higashitarumizu, I K M Reaz Rahman, Lam Lam, Joel W. Ager III, Albert Davydov, Sergiy Krylyuk, Ali Javey
Bulk γ-InSe has a direct bandgap of 1.24 eV, which corresponds to near infrared wavelengths (λ = 1.0 µm) useful in optoelectronic applications from biometric detectors to silicon photonics. However, its potential for optoelectronic applications is largely

Linking excess entropy and acentric factor in spherical fluids

September 9, 2024
Author(s)
Tae Jun Yoon, Ian Bell
Introduced by Kenneth Pitzer in 1955, the acentric factor (ω) became a standard quantity in chemical thermodynamics, representing a molecule's "shape" effect on the deviation from the corresponding state behavior. Nevertheless, its interpretation remains
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