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Polarization Effects of X-ray Monochromators Modeled Using Dynamical Scattering Theory

July 1, 2021
Author(s)
Marcus Mendenhall, David R. Black, Donald Windover, James Cline
The difference in the diffracted intensity of the sigma-and pi-polarized components of an X-ray beam in powder diffraction has generally been treated according to equations based on dipole scattering, also known as kinematic X-ray scattering. Although this

Two-Dimensional Overdamped Fluctuations of the Soft Perovskite Lattice in CsPbBr 3

July 1, 2021
Author(s)
T. Lanigan-Atkins, X. He, M. Krogstad, D. M. Pajerowski, D. Abernathy, Guangyong Xu, Zhijun Xu, D.-Y. Chung, M. G. Kanatzidis, S. Rosenkranz, R. Osborn, O. Delaire
Lead halide perovskites exhibit structural instabilities and large atomic fluctuations thought to impact their optical and thermal properties, yet detailed structural and temporal correlations of their atomic motions remain poorly understood. Here, these

Freezing of a Disorder Induced Spin Liquid with Strong Quantum Fluctuations

June 29, 2021
Author(s)
Xiao Hu, Daniel M. Pajerowski, Depei Zhang, Andrey Podlesnyak, Yiming Qiu, Qing Huang, Haidong Zhou, Israel Klich, Alexander I. Kolesnikov, M. B. Stone, Seung-Hun Lee
Sr 2CuTe 0.5W 0.5O 6 is a square-lattice magnet with super-exchange between S = 1/2 Cu 2+ spins mediated by randomly distributed Te and W ions. Here, using sub-K temperature and 20 µeV energy resolution neutron scattering experiments we show that this

A Large Beam High Efficiency Radio Frequency Neutron Spin Flipper

June 21, 2021
Author(s)
Wangchun Chen, Ross W. Erwin, Peter Tsai, Md. T. Hassan, Nancy Hadad, Charles F. Majkrzak
A design for a radio-frequency (RF) neutron spin flipper obtained from magneto-static and neutron spin transport simulations is presented. The RF flipper constructed from this design provides a flipping probability of 0.999 or better for a beam size 6 cm

High-Energy Magnetic Excitations from Heavy Quasiparticles in CeCu 2 Si 2

June 18, 2021
Author(s)
Yu Song, Weiyi Wang, Chongde Cao, Zahra Yamani, Yuanji Xu, Yutao Sheng, Wolfgang Loser, Yiming Qiu, Yi-Feng Yang, Robert J. Birgeneau, Pengcheng Dai
The heavy fermion superconductor CeCu 2Si 2 is located near an antiferromagnetic quantum critical point, indicating significant interplay between magnetism and superconductivity. Using inelastic neutron scattering, we show magnetic excitations in CeCu 2Si

Origin and control of ionic hydration patterns in nanopores

June 18, 2021
Author(s)
Miraslau L. Barabash, William A. Gibby, Carlo Guardiani, Alexander Smolyanitsky, Dmitry G. Luchinsky, Peter V. McClintock
In order to permeate a nanopore, an ion must overcome a dehydration energy barrier caused by the redistribution of surrounding water molecules. The redistribution is inhomogeneous, anisotropic and strongly position-dependent, resulting in complex patterns

Monopolar and dipolar relaxation in spin ice Ho2Ti2O7

June 16, 2021
Author(s)
Yishu Wang, T. Reeder, Y. Karaki, J. Kindervater, T. Halloran, Nicholas C. Maliszewskyj, Yiming Qiu, Jose Rodriguez Rivera, Sergiy Gladchenko, S. M. Koohpayeh, S. Nakatsuji, Collin L. Broholm
Ferromagnetically interacting Ising spins on the pyrochlore lattice of corner-sharing tetrahedra form a highly degenerate manifold of low-energy states. A spin flip relative to this "spin-ice" manifold can fractionalize into two oppositely charged magnetic

Database of Ab Initio L-edge X-ray Absorption Near Edge Structure

June 11, 2021
Author(s)
Yiming Chen, Chi Chen, Chen Zheng, Shyam Dwaraknath, Matthew K. Horton, Jordi Cabana, John J. Rehr, John Vinson, Alan K. Dozier, Kristin A. Persson, Shyue P. Ong
The L-edge X-ray Absorption Near Edge Structure (XANES) is widely used in the characterization of transition metal compounds. Here, we report the development of a database of computed L-edge XANES using the multiple scattering theory-based FEFF9 code. The

Field-induced dehydration and optimal ionic escape paths for C2N membranes

June 11, 2021
Author(s)
Miroslav Barabash, William Gibby, Dmitry Luchinsky, Binquan Luan, Alexander Smolyanitsky, Peter McClintock
Most analytic theories describing electrostatically driven ion transport through water-filled nanopores assume that the corresponding permeation barriers are bias-independent. While this assumption may hold for sufficiently wide pores under infinitely

Mobility Extraction in 2D Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Devices - Avoiding Contact Resistance Implicated Overestimation

June 10, 2021
Author(s)
Chin-Sheng Pang, Ruiping Zhou, Xiangkai Liu, Peng Wu, Terry Y. Hung, Shiqi Guo, Mona E. Zaghloul, Sergiy Krylyuk, Albert Davydov, Joerg Appenzeller, Zhihong Chen
Schottky barrier (SB) transistors operate distinctly different from conventional metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs), in a unique way that the gate impacts the carrier injection from the metal source/drain contacts into the channel

Resonant Spin Transmission Mediated by Magnons in a Magnetic Insulator Multilayer Structure

June 3, 2021
Author(s)
Yabin Fan, Joseph Finley, Jiahao Han, Megan E. Holtz, Patrick Quarterman, Pengxiang Zhang, Taqiyyah S. Safi, Justin T. Hou, Alexander Grutter, Luqiao Liu
One important goal of magnonics is to discover novel wave properties of magnons, which are quanta of collective excitation in magnets, to make it compatible for application on coherent information transmission and processing1,2. However, thin-film

Observation of chiral photocurrent transport in the quantum Hall regime in graphene

May 24, 2021
Author(s)
Glenn S. Solomon, Olivier Gazzano, Bin Cao, Jiuning Hu, David B. Newell, Tobias Huber, Michael Gullans, Mohammad Hafezi, Tobias Grass
Optical excitation provides a powerful tool to investigate non-equilibrium physics in quantum Hall systems. Moreover, the length scale associated with photo-excited charge carries lies between that of local probes and global transport measurements. Here

Pristine Quantum Criticality in a Kondo Semimetal

May 19, 2021
Author(s)
Wesley T. Fuhrman, Andrey Sidorenko, Jonathan Hanel, Hannes Winkler, Andrey Prokofiev, Jose Rodriguez Rivera, Yiming Qiu, Peter Blaha, Qimiao Si, Collin L. Broholm, Silke Paschen
The observation of quantum criticality in diverse classes of strongly correlated electron systems has been instrumental in establishing ordering principles, discovering new phases, and identifying the relevant degrees of freedom and interactions. At focus

Magnetic Ordering in the Ising Antiferromagnetic Pyrochlore Nd 2 ScNbO 7

May 14, 2021
Author(s)
C. Mauws, N. Hiebert, M. Rutherford, H. D. Zhou, Q. Huang, M. B. Stone, Nicholas Butch, Y. Su, E. S. Choi, Z. Yamani, C. R. Wiebe
The question of structural disorder and its effects on magnetism is relevant to a number of spin liquid candidate materials. Although commonly thought of as a route to spin glass behavior, here we describe a system in which the structural disorder destroys

Anomalous Normal Fluid Response in Chiral Superconductor UTe 2

May 10, 2021
Author(s)
Seokjin Bae, Hyunsoo Kim, Yun S. Eo, Nicholas Butch, Sheng Ran
A chiral superconductor has been proposed as one pathway to realize topological quantum computation utilizing the predicted Majorana normal fluid at its boundary1 1-4 (i.e., a point, edge, or surface). The search for experimental realizations has led to

Dynamical Ground State in the XY Pyrochlore Yb 2 GaSbO 7

May 5, 2021
Author(s)
P. M. Sarte, K. Cruz-Kan, B. R. Ortiz, K. H. Hong, M. M. Bordelon, D. Reig-i-Plessis, M. Lee, E. S. Choi, Matthew Stone, S. Calder, D. M. Pajerowski, L. Mangin-Thro, Yiming Qiu, J. P. Attfield, S. D. Wilson, C. Stock, H. D. Zhou, A. M. Hallas, J. A. Paddison, A. A. Aczel, C. R. Wiebe
The magnetic ground state of the pyrochlore Yb 2GaSbO 7 has remained an enigma for nearly a decade. The persistent spin fluctuations observed by muon spin relaxation measurements at low temperatures have not been adequately explained for this material

Magnetic Ordering and Structural Distortion in PrFeAsO Single Crystal Studied by Neutron and X-ray Scattering

May 5, 2021
Author(s)
M. G. Kim, William D. Ratcliff, D. M. Pajerowski, J.-W. Kim, J.-Q. Yan, Jeffrey W. Lynn, A. I. Goldman, A. Kreyssig
We report the magnetic ordering and structural distortion in PrFeAsO crystals, the basis compound for one of the oxypnictide superconductors, using high-resolution x-ray diffraction, neutron diffraction, and x-ray resonant magnetic scattering (XRMS). We

Mechanisms of Anelastic Loss in Langasite at Temperatures from 113 K to 1324 K

May 4, 2021
Author(s)
Ward L. Johnson, Yuriy Suhak, Holger Fritze
Synthetic piezoelectric crystals with the structure of langasite (LGS) are being pursued for resonant acoustic sensors that can operate at temperatures exceeding the range of conventional piezoelectric materials. The optimization of these crystals is

Quantum field theory for the chiral clock transition in one spatial dimension

May 3, 2021
Author(s)
Seth P. Whitsitt, Rhine Samajdar, Subir Sachdev
We describe the quantum phase transition in the N-state chiral clock model in spatial dimension d=1. With couplings chosen to preserve time-reversal and spatial inversion symmetries, such a model, is in the universality class of recent experimental studies

Entanglement and purification transitions in non-Hermitian quantum mechanics

April 30, 2021
Author(s)
Michael Gullans, Sarang Gopalakrishnan
A quantum system subject to continuous measurement and post-selection evolves according to a non- Hermitian Hamiltonian. We show that, as one increases the rate of post-selection, this non- Hermitian Hamiltonian can undergo a spectral phase transition. On

High-resolution neutron depolarization microscopy of the ferromagnetic transitions inNi3Al and HgCr2Se4 under pressure

April 21, 2021
Author(s)
Daniel S. Hussey, Muhammad Abir, B. Khaykovich, C. Pfleiderer, Pau Jorba, Marc Seifert, Michael Schulz
We performed spatially resolved imaging of ferromagnetic transitions in Ni3Al and HgCr2Se4 crystals. These neutron depolarization measurements discovered bulk magnetic inhomogeneities in the ferromagnetic transition temperature with the spatial resolution
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