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Josephson Microwave Sources Applied to Quantum Information Systems

December 18, 2020
Author(s)
Adam J. Sirois, Manuel C. Castellanos Beltran, Anna E. Fox, Samuel P. Benz, Peter F. Hopkins
Quantum computers with thousands or millions of qubits will require a scalable solution for qubit control and readout electronics. Colocating these electronics at millikelvin temperatures has been proposed and demonstrated, but there exist significant

Site-Specific Structure at Multiple Length Scales in Kagome Quantum Spin Liquid Candidates

December 14, 2020
Author(s)
Rebecca W. Smaha, Idris Boukahil, Charles J. Titus, Jack Mingde Jiang, John P. Sheckelton, Wei He, JiaJia Wen, John Vinson, SuYin G. Wang, Yu-Sheng Chen, Simon J. Teat, Thomas P. Devereaux, Chaitanya D. Pemmaraju, Young S. Lee
Realizing a quantum spin liquid (QSL) ground state in a real material is a leading issue in condensed matter physics research. In this pursuit, it is crucial to fully characterize the structure and influence of defects, as these can significantly affect

Intertwined Density Waves in a Metallic Nickelate

November 26, 2020
Author(s)
Junjie Zhang, D. Phelan, A. S. Botana, Yu-Sheng Chen, Hong Zheng, M. Krogstad, Suyin G. Wang, Yiming Qiu, Jose Rodriguez Rivera, R. Osborn, S. Rosenkranz, M. R. Norman, J. F. Mitchell
Nickelates are a rich class of materials, ranging from insulating magnets to superconductors. But for stoichiometric materials, insulating behavior is the norm, as for most late transition metal oxides. Notable exceptions are the 3D perovskite LaNiO 3, an

Staggered spin Hall conductivity

November 25, 2020
Author(s)
Fei Xue, Paul M. Haney
The intrinsic spin Hall effect plays an important role in spintronics applications, such as spin-orbit torque-based memory. The bulk space group symmetry determines the form of the bulk spin current conductivity tensor. This paper considers materials for

Evolution of the Magnetic Properties in the Antiferromagnet Ce 2 RhIn 8 Simultaneously Doped with Cd and Ir

November 20, 2020
Author(s)
D. S. Christovam, G. S. Freitas, M. M. Piva, J. C. Souza, M. O. Malcolms, O. L. Canton, Juscelino Leao, William D. Ratcliff, Jeffrey W. Lynn, C. Adriano, P. G. Pagliuso
We report the evolution of the magnetic properties of Ce 2Rh 1−xIr xIn 8−yCd y single crystals. In particular, for Ce 2Rh 0.5Ir 0.5In 8 (T N = 2.0 K) and Ce 2Rh 0.5Ir 0.5In 7.79Cd 0.21 (T N = 4.2 K), we have solved the magnetic structure of these compounds

Magnetic Order and Competition with Superconductivity in (Ho-Er)Ni 2 B 2 C

November 20, 2020
Author(s)
Suleyman Gundogdu, J. P. Clancy, Guangyong Xu, Yang Zhao, Paul A. Dube, Tufan C. Karalar, Beong K. Cho, Jeffrey W. Lynn, M. Ramazanoglu
The rare earth magnetic order in pure and doped Er (1−x)Ho xNi 2B^2^C (x = 0, 0.25, 0.50, 0.75, 1) single crystal samples was investigated using magnetization and neutron diffraction measurements. Superconducting quaternary borocarbides, RNi 2B 2C where R

In-plane Uniaxial Pressure-Induced Out-of-Plane Antiferromagnetic Moment and Critical Fluctuations in BaFe 2 As 2

November 12, 2020
Author(s)
Panpan Liu, Mason L. Klemm, Long Tian, Xingye Lu, Yu Song, David W. Tam, Karin Schmalzl, J. T. Park, Yu Li, Guotai Tan, Yixi Su, Frederic Bourdarot, Yang Zhao, Jeffrey W. Lynn, Robert J. Birgeneau, Pengcheng Dai
A small in-plane external uniaxial pressure has been widely used as an effective method to acquire single domain iron pnictide BaFe 2As 2, which exhibits twin-domains without uniaxial strain below the tetragonal-to-orthorhombic structural (nematic)

The joint automated repository for various integrated simulations (JARVIS) for data-driven materials design

November 12, 2020
Author(s)
Kamal Choudhary, Kevin Garrity, Andrew C. Reid, Brian DeCost, Adam Biacchi, Angela R. Hight Walker, Zachary Trautt, Jason Hattrick-Simpers, Aaron Kusne, Andrea Centrone, Albert Davydov, Francesca Tavazza, Jie Jiang, Ruth Pachter, Gowoon Cheon, Evan Reed, Ankit Agrawal, Xiaofeng Qian, Vinit Sharma, Houlong Zhuang, Sergei Kalinin, Ghanshyam Pilania, Pinar Acar, Subhasish Mandal, David Vanderbilt, Karin Rabe
The Joint Automated Repository for Various Integrated Simulations (JARVIS) is an integrated infrastructure to accelerate materials discovery and design using density functional theory (DFT), classical force-fields (FF), and machine learning (ML) techniques

Tuning the Crystalline Electric Field and Magnetic Anisotropy along the CeCuBi 2-x Sb x Series

October 20, 2020
Author(s)
G. S. Freitas, M. M. Piva, R. Grossi, C. B. Jesus, J. C. Souza, D. S. Christovam, Jr. Oliveira, Juscelino Leao, C. Adriano, Jeffrey W. Lynn, P. G. Pagliuso
We have performed X-ray powder diffraction, magnetization, electrical resistivity, heat capacity and inelastic neutron scattering (INS) to investigate the physical properties of the intermetallic series of compounds CeCuBi 2−xSb x. These compounds

Quantum-Critical Scale Invariance in Transition Metal Alloy

October 14, 2020
Author(s)
Yasuyuki Nakajima, Tristin Metz, Christoper Eckberg, Kevin Kirshenbaum, Alex Hughes, Renxiong Wang, Limin Wang, Shanta Saha
Quantum-mechanical fluctuations between competing phases at Τ = 0 induce exotic finite-temperature collective excitations that are not described by the standard Landau Fermi liquid framework [1-4]. These excitations exhibit anomalous temperature

Local negative permittivity and topological-phase transition in polar skyrmions

October 12, 2020
Author(s)
Sujit Das, Zijian Hong, Vladimir Stoica, Mauro A. Goncalves, Yu-Tsun Shao, Eric Parsonnet, Eric J. Marksz, Sahar Saremi, Margaret McCarter, A Reynoso, Chris Long, Aaron Hagerstrom, D Meyers, V Ravi, B Prasad, H Zhou, Z Zhang, H Wen, F Gomez-Ortiz, P Garcia-Fernandez, J Bokor, J Iniguez, J Freeland, Nate Orloff, J Junquera, Long-Qing Chen, Sayeef Salahuddin, David A. Muller, L Martin, R. Ramesh
Topological solitons such as magnetic skyrmions have drawn enormous attention as stable quasi- particle-like objects. The recent discovery of polar vortices and skyrmions in ferroelectric- oxide superlattices, exhibiting exotic physical phenomena, has

Optimizing Magnetically Shielded Solenoids for Large Volume 3 He Neutron Spin Filters

October 2, 2020
Author(s)
Wangchun Chen, Md. Hassan, Ross Erwin, Shannon M. Watson, Thomas R. Gentile, G. L. Jones
An important consideration when designing a magnetostatic cavity for various applications is to maximize the ratio of the volume of field homogeneity to the overall size of the cavity. We report a design of a magnetically shielded solenoid that

Large Exchange Splitting in Monolayer Graphene Magnetized by an Antiferromagnet

September 30, 2020
Author(s)
Yingying Wu, Gen Yin, Lei Pan, Alexander Grutter, Quanjun Pan, Albert Lee, Dustin A. Gilbert, Julie A. Borchers, William D. Ratcliff, Ang Li, Xiao-dong Han, Kang L. Wang
Spin splitting in graphene has been identified as a key component for unlocking multifunctionality with low dissipation and long-distance spin transport. Magnetic proximity effects are an extremely promising route to realizing exchange splitting in

Quantum Versus Classical Spin Fragmentation in Dipolar Kagome Ice Ho 3 Mg 2 Sb 3 O 14

September 29, 2020
Author(s)
Zhiling Dun, Xiaojian Bai, Jospeh A. Paddison, Emily Hollingworth, Nicholas Butch, Clarina D. Cruz, Matthew Stone, Tao Hong, Franz Demmel, Martin Mourigal, Haidong Zhou
A promising route to realize entangled magnetic states combines geometrical frustration with quantum-tunneling effects. Spin-ice materials are canonical examples of frustration, and Ising spins in a transverse magnetic field are the simplest many-body

Electron-Phonon Coupling and Superconductivity in the Doped Topological Crystalline Insulator (Pb 0.5 Sn 0.5 _) 1-x In x Te

September 23, 2020
Author(s)
A. Sapkota, Y. Li, B. L. Winn, A. Podlesnyak, Guangyong Xu, Zhijun Xu, Kejing Ran, Tong Chen, Jian Sun, Jinsheng Wen, Lihua Wu, Jihui Yang, Qiang Li, G. D. Gu, J. M. Tranquada
We present a neutron scattering study of phonons in single crystals of (Pb 0.5Sn 0.5) 1−xIn xTe with x = 0 (metallic, but nonsuperconducting) and x = 0.2 (nonmetallic normal state, but superconducting). We map the phonon dispersions (more completely for x

Electron and x-ray focused beam-induced cross-linking in liquids: Toward rapid continuous 3D nanoprinting and interfacing using soft materials

September 15, 2020
Author(s)
Tanya Gupta, Evgheni Strelcov, Glenn Holland, Joshua D. Schumacher, Yang Yang, Mandy Esch, Vladimir Aksyuk, Patrick Zeller, Matteo Amati, Luca Gregoratti, Andrei Kolmakov
Additive fabrication of biocompatible 3D structures out of liquid hydrogel solutions has become pivotal technology for tissue engineering, soft robotics, biosensing, drug delivery etc. Electron and X-ray lithography are well suited to pattern nanoscopic
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