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Quantum Critical Behavior in Ce(Fe 0.76 Ru 0.24 ) 2 Ge 2

May 7, 2019
Author(s)
Wouter Montfrooij, Tom Heitmann, Yiming Qiu, Shannon M. Watson, Ross Erwin, Wangchun Chen, Yang Zhao, Meigan Aronson, Yingkai Huang, Anne de Visser
Systems with embedded magnetic ions that exhibit a competition between magnetic order and disorder down to absolute zero can display unusual low temperature behaviors of the resistivity, hyperscaling behavior in which the relaxation back to equilibrium

Quantum Spin Ice Dynamics in the Dipole-Octupole Pyrochlore Magnet Ce 2 Zr 2 O 7

May 7, 2019
Author(s)
Jonathan Gaudet, E. M. Smith, J. Dudemaine, J. Beare, C.R.C. Buhariwalla, Nicholas Butch, M. B. Stone, A. I. Kolesniko, Guangyong Xu, D. R. Yahne, K. A. Ross, C. A. Marjerrison, J. D. Garrett, G. M. Luke, A. D. Bianchi, B. D. Gaulin
Neutron scattering measurements on the pyrochlore magnet Ce 2Zr 2O 7 reveal an unusual crystal field splitting of its lowest J=5/2 multiplet, such that its ground state doublet is composed of m j= ± 3/2, giving these doublets a dipole - octupole (DO)

Induced quantum dot probe for materials characterization

April 19, 2019
Author(s)
Hilary M. Hurst, Yun-Pil Shim, Rusko Ruskov, Charles Tahan
We propose a non-destructive means of characterizing a semiconductor wafer via measuring parameters of an induced quantum dot on the material system of interest with a separate probe chip that can also house the measurement circuitry. We show that a single

Spin-current-mediated Rapid Magnon Localisation and Coalescence After Ultrafast Optical Pumping of Ferrimagnetic Alloys

April 15, 2019
Author(s)
Ezio E. Iacocca, TianMin Liu, Alexander H. Reid, Z Fu, S Ruta, P. W. Granitzka, E Jal, S. Bonetti, A. Gray, C E. Graves, R Kukreja, Z Chen, Daniel Higley, T Chase, L L. Guyader, K Hirsch, H Ohldag, W F. Schlotter, G L. Dakovski, Giacomo Coslovich, M C. Hoffmann, S Carron, A Tsukamoto, A Kirilyuk, A V. Kimel, Th Rasing, J Stohr, R F. Evans, T Ostler, R W. Chantrell, M A. Hoefer, Thomas J. Silva, H A. Durr
Sub-picosecond magnetisation manipulation via femtosecond optical pumping has attracted wide attention ever since its original discovery in 1996. However, the spatial evolution of the magnetisation is not yet well understood, in part due to the difficulty

Crystallographic orientation dependence of work function: carbon adsorption on Au surfaces

April 14, 2019
Author(s)
Dustin A. Hite, Hossein Jooya, X Fan, Kyle S. McKay, David P. Pappas, H.R. Sadeghpour
We show in this work that the work function change due to carbon adatom adsorption is not predominantly affected by the crystallographic orientation of the gold surface. Ab-initio calculations within density-functional theory are performed on carbon

Low-resistance, high-yield electrical contacts to atom scale Si:P devices using palladium silicide

March 29, 2019
Author(s)
Scott W. Schmucker, Pradeep Namboodiri, Ranjit Kashid, Xiqiao Wang, Binhui Hu, Jonathan Wyrick, Alline Myers, Joshua D. Schumacher, Richard M. Silver, Michael Stewart
Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) enables the fabrication of 2-D delta-doped structures in Si with atomistic precision, with applications from tunnel field effect transistors to qubits. The combination of a very small contact area and the restrictive

Nanoscale Ferroelastic Twins Formed in Strained LaCoO 3 Films

March 29, 2019
Author(s)
Er-Jia Guo, Ryan Desautels, David Keavney, Manuel A. Roldan, Brian Kirby, Dongkyu Lee, Zhaoliang Liao, Timothy Charlton, Andreas Herklotz, T. Zac Ward, Michael R. Fitzsimmons, Ho Nyung Lee
The formation of twinning domains has been established as a major mechanism to accommodate epitaxial strain in rhombohedral ferroelastic oxide thin films. The elastic energy can be released at the expense of high interfacial energy at the domain boundaries

Probing the Participation of Oxygen Redox in the Electrochemical Cycling of Li-Rich Li2IrO3

March 25, 2019
Author(s)
Eric L. Shirley, John T. Vinson, Liang Li, Maria K. Chan, Joong S. Park, Eungje Lee, John W. Freeland, Zhenpeng Yao, Fernando Castro, Timothy T. Fister, Christopher M. Wolverton, Michael Thackeray
To exploit extra capacity beyond the traditionally postulated transition metal redox in Li-ion batteries, it is imperative to understand the exact role of oxygen in the charge compensation, i.e., what triggers the electron occupation change in oxygen and

Comment on "Giant Electromechanical Coupling of Relaxor Ferroelectrics Controlled by Polar Nanoregion Vibrations"

March 22, 2019
Author(s)
Peter M. Gehring, Zhijun NMN Xu, C. Stock, Guangyong NMN Xu, Daniel E Parshall, Leland Weldon Harriger, C. A. Gehring, Xiaobing Li, Haosu Luo
Manley et al. (Science Advances, 16 September 2016, p.e1501814) report a splitting of a transverse acoustic phonon branch below T c in the relaxor ferroelectric Pb[(Mg 1/3Nb 2/3) 1-xTi x]O 3 with x=0.30 using neutron scattering methods. They argue that

Correlating anisotropic mobility and intermolecular phonons in organic semiconductors to investigate transient localization

March 19, 2019
Author(s)
Emily G. Bittle, Adam J. Biacchi, Lisa A. Fredin, Andrew A. Herzing, Thomas C. Allison, Angela R. Hight Walker, David J. Gundlach
Charge transport in organic semiconductors is governed by a mix of polaron hopping and band- like transport mechanisms. The energy of polaron hopping and formation are similar in magnitude to the energies of inter- and intra- molecular modes, which points

Correlated Spin Canting in Ordered Core-Shell Fe 3 O 4 /Mn x Fe 3-x Od4^ Nanoparticle Assemblies

March 18, 2019
Author(s)
Y. Ijiri, Kathryn L. Krycka, I. Hunt-Isaak, H. Pan, J. Hsieh, Julie Borchers, James Jennings Rhyne, Samuel D. Oberdick, A. Abdelgawad, S. A. Majetich
Polarization-analyzed small-angle neutron scattering methods are used to determine the spin arrangements in ordered three-dimensional assemblies of 7.4 nm diameter core-shell Fe 3O 4/Mn xFe 3-xO 4 nanoparticles. In moderate to high magnetic fields, the

Spinon Confinement and a Sharp Longitudinal Mode in Yb 2 Pt 2 Pb in Magnetic Fields

March 8, 2019
Author(s)
W. J. Gannon, I. A. Zaliznyak, L. S. Wu, A. E. Feiguin, A. M. Tsvelik, F. Demmel, Yiming Qiu, John R. Copley, M. S. Kim, M. C. Aronson
The fundamental excitation of spin chain systems is the spinon, which is a deconfined quasiparticle with fractionalized spin. Coupling spin chains leads to the confinement of these spinons, a condensed matter analog of quark confinement in quantum

Exploring Interfacial Exchange Coupling and Sublattice Effect in Heavy Metal/Ferrimagnetic Insulator Heterostructures using Hall Measurements, X-Ray Magnetic Circular Dichroism, and Neutron Reflectometry

March 4, 2019
Author(s)
Qiming Shao, Alexander Grutter, Yawen Liu, Guoqiang Yu, Chao-Yao Yang, Dustin A. Gilbert, Elke Arenholz, Padraic Shafer, Xiaoyu Chi, Chi Tang, Mohammed Aldosary, Aryan Navabi, Qing Lin He, Brian Kirby, Jing Shi, Kang L. Wang
Ferrimagnetic insulators (FMIs), such as rare-earth iron garnets, are of considerable interest for low-power spintronics due to low Gilbert damping and the absence of free charge carriers. FMIs are also promising candidate materials for high-frequency

Evidence for moire excitons in van der Waals heterostructures

February 25, 2019
Author(s)
Kha Tran, Galan Moody, Travis M. Autry, Kevin L. Silverman, Fengcheng Wu, Junho Choi, Akshay Singh, Jacob Embley, Andre Zepeda, Marshall Cambel, Kyoung Kim, Amritesh Rai, Daniel Sanchez, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Li Yang, Nanshu Lu, Sanjay Banerjee, emanuel tutuc, Allan H. MacDonald, Xiaoqin Li
Recent advances in the isolation and stacking of monolayers of van der Waals materials have provided approaches for the preparation of quantum materials in the ultimate two-dimensional limit. In van der Waals heterostructures formed by stacking two

Low-Carrier Density and Fragile Magnetism in a Kondo Lattice System

February 12, 2019
Author(s)
Binod K. Rai, Iain W. H. Oswald, Wenjing Ban, C.-L. Huang, V. Loganathan, A. M. Hallas, M. N. Wilson, G. M. Luke, Leland Harriger, Qingzhen Huang, Y. Li, Sami Dzsaber, Julia Y. Chan, N. L. Wang, Silke Paschen, Jeffrey W. Lynn, Andriy H. Nevidomskyy, Pengcheng Dai, Q. Si, E. Morosan
Known low carrier Kondo systems evolve from metallic non-magnetic analogues, while a recent theoretical model for the dilute carrier Kondo limit predicts semimetallic behavior. Very few 4f low carrier Kondo systems have been reported, mostly based on Ce

Stacked Josephson Junctions as inductors for SFQ circuits

February 11, 2019
Author(s)
Manuel C. Castellanos Beltran, David I. Olaya, Adam J. Sirois, Paul D. Dresselhaus, Samuel P. Benz, Peter F. Hopkins
In order for Single Flux Quantum (SFQ) circuits to be scaled to densities needed for large-scale integration, typical lithographically-patterned circuit components should be made to be as compact as possible. In this work, we characterize the performance

In Situ Back-Contact Passivation Improves Photovoltage and Fill Factor in Perovskite Solar Cells

February 10, 2019
Author(s)
Lee J. Richter, Ahmad R. Kirmani, Furui Tan, Hairen Tan, Wei Mingyang, Makhsud I. Saidaminov, Mengxia Liu, Mei Anyi, Peicheng Li, Chih-Shan Tan, Xiwen Gong, Yongbiao Zhao, Ziru Huang, James Z. Fan, Rafael Quintero-Bermudez, Kim Junghwan, Yicheng Zhao, Oleksandr Voznyy, Zheng-Hong Lu, Weifeng Zhang, Edward H. Sargent, Bowen Zhang, Yueye Gao, Feng Zhang
Organic–inorganic hybrid perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have seen a rapid rise in power conversion efficiencies in recent years; however, they still suffer from interfacial recombination and charge extraction losses at interfaces between the perovskite

High Temperature Singlet-Based Magnetism from Hund's Rule Correlations

February 7, 2019
Author(s)
Lin Miao, Rourav Basak, Sheng NMN Ran, Yishuai Xu, Erica Kotta, Haowei He, Jonathan D. Denlinger, Yi-De Chuang, Yang Zhao, Zhijun Xu, Jeffrey W. Lynn, J. R. Jeffries, Shanta Ranjan Saha, Ioannis Giannakis, Pegor Aynajian, Chang-Jong Kang, Yilin Wang, Gabriel Kotliar, Nicholas Butch, L. Andrew Wray
Novel electronic phenomena frequently form in heavy fermions as a consequence of the mutual nature of localization and itineracy of f-electrons. On the magnetically ordered side of the heavy fermion phase diagram, f-moments are expected to be localized and

Mechanosensitive ion permeation across sub-nanoporous MoS2 monolayers

January 23, 2019
Author(s)
Alta Y. Fang, Kenneth Kroenlein, Alexander Smolyanitsky
We use all-atom molecular dynamics simulations informed by density functional theory calculations to investigate aqueous ion transport across subnanoporous monolayer molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) membranes subject to varying tensile strains. Driven by a
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