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Distinct Magnetic Spectra in the Hidden Order and Antiferromagnetic Phases in URu 2-x Fe x Si 2

November 7, 2016
Author(s)
Nicholas P. Butch, Sheng Ran, Inho Jeon, Noravee Kanchanavatee, Kevin Huang, Alexander Breindel, M. Brian Maple, Ryan L. Stillwell, Yang Zhao, Leland Weldon Harriger, Jeffrey W. Lynn
We use neutron scattering to compare the magnetic excitations in the hidden order (HO) and antiferromagnetic (AFM) phases in URu 2-xFe xFe xSi 2 as a function of Fe concentration. The magnetic excitation spectra change significantly between x=0.05 and x=0

Giant Electromechanical Coupling of Relaxor Ferroelectric Controlled by Polar Nanoregion Dynamics

September 16, 2016
Author(s)
Michael E. Manley, Douglas L. Abernathy, Raffi Sahul, Daniel E. Parshall, Jeffrey W. Lynn, Andrew D. Christianson, Paul J. Stonaha, Eliot D. Specht, John D. Budai
Ferroelectric relaxors are inhomogeneous materials prized for their giant electromechanical coupling, which has revolutionized sensor and ultrasound applications, but is not well understood. It has been attributed to critical points in the phase diagram

Quadrupole Order in the Frustrated Pyrochlore Tb 2+x Ti 2-x O 7+y

May 26, 2016
Author(s)
H. Takatsu, S. Onoda, S. Kittaka, A. Kasahara, Y. Kono, T. Sakakibara, Y. Kato, B. Fak, J. Ollivier, Jeffrey W. Lynn, T. Taniguchi, H. Kadowaki
A hidden order that emerges in the frustrated pyrochlore Tb 2+xTi 2-xO 7+y with X = 0.005 > x c is studied from specific heat and magnetization experiments on a high-quality single crystal, as well as neutron scattering. Semi-quantitative3 analyses based

Transition from Sign-Reversed to Sign-Preserved Cooper-Paring Symmetry in Sulfur-Doped Iron Selenide Superconductors

May 13, 2016
Author(s)
Qisi Wang, J. T. Park, Yu Feng, Yao Shen, Yiqing Hao, Bingying Pan, Jeffrey W. Lynn, A. Ivanov, Songxue Chi, M. Matsuda, Huibo Cao, R. J. Birgeneau, D.V. Efremov, Jun Zhao
An essential step toward elucidating the mechanism of superconductivity is to determine the sign/phase of superconducting order parameter, as it is closely related to the pairing interaction. In conventional superconductors, the electron-phonon interaction

Spin Dynamics and Two-Dimensional Correlations in the FCC Antiferromagnetic Sr 2 YRuO 6

April 15, 2016
Author(s)
Steven M. Disseler, Jeffrey W. Lynn, R. F. Jardim, M. S. Torikachvili, E. Granado
The face-centered cubic lattice lattice of Ru 5+ spins in the double perovskite Sr 2YRuO 6 shows a delicate three dimensional antiferromagnetic (AFM) ground state composed of stacked square AFm layers. Inelastic neutron scattering data taken on this state

Magnetic Structure of Yb 2 Pt 2 Pb: Ising Moments on the Shastry-Sutherland Lattice

March 22, 2016
Author(s)
W. Miiller, L. S. Wu, M. S. Kim, T. Orvis, J. W. Simonson, M. Gamza, D. M. McNally, C. S. Nelson, G. Ehlers, A. Podlesnyak, Joel Helton, Yang Zhao, Yiming Qiu, John R. Copley, Jeffrey W. Lynn, I. Zaliznyak, M. C. Aronson
Neutron diffraction measurements were carried out on single crystals and powders of Yb 2Pt 2Pb, where Yb moments form planes of orthogonal dimers in the frustrated Shastry-Sutherland Lattice (SSL). Yb 2Pt 2Pb orders antiferromagnetically at T N=2.07 K, and

A Pathway to Optimize the Properties of Magnetocaloric Mn 2-x Fe x P 1-y Ge y ) for Magnetic Refrigeration

February 29, 2016
Author(s)
D. M. Liu, Z. L. Zhang, S. L. Zhou, Qingzhen Huang, X. J. Deng, M. Yue, C. X. Liu, J. X. Zhang, Jeffrey W. Lynn
Magnetocaloric materials can be useful in magnetic refrigeration applications, but to be practical the magnetorefrigerant needs to have a very large magnetocaloric effect (MCE) near room temperature for modest applied fields ( xFe 2-xP 1-yGe y, and we have

Chapter 5: Multiferroics

December 24, 2015
Author(s)
William D. Ratcliff, Jeffrey W. Lynn
Multiferroics are insulating materials that are simultaneously magnetically ordered and ferroelectric. From a fundamental standpoint it is interesting to understand the properties and coupling of these two disparate types of order. These materials could

Magnetic Structure and Exchange Interactions in Quasi-One-Dimensional MnCl 2 (urea) 2

December 11, 2015
Author(s)
Jamie L. Manson, Qingzhen Huang, Craig Brown, Jeffrey W. Lynn, Matthew B. Stone, John Singleton, Fan Xiao
MnCl 2(urea) 2 is a new linear chain coordination polymer that exhibits slightly counter-rotated MnCl 4 rhomboids along the chain-axis. The material crystallizes in the non-centrosymmetric orthorhombic space group Iba 2, with each Mn(II) ion equatorially

Observation of the reduction of thermal conductivity in a p-type nanostructured half-Heusler using neutron inelastic scattering

November 24, 2015
Author(s)
Winnie K. Wong-Ng, Jeffrey W. Lynn, Qingzhen Huang, Craig Brown, James A. Kaduk, Giri Joshi
To understand the role of the nanophase in reducing the lattice contribution of the thermal conductivity of thermoelectrics, the structure and phonon density of a p-type half-Heusler thermoelectric ingot (ingot-HH, nominal composition of (Hf0.5Zr0.5)Co(Sb0

Neutron Investigation of the Magnetic Scattering in an Iron-based Ferromagnetic Superconductor

August 31, 2015
Author(s)
Jeffrey W. Lynn, Xiuquan Zhou, Christopher K. H. Borg, Shanta R. Saha, Johnpierre Paglione, Efrain E. Rodriguez
Neutron diffraction and small angle scattering experiments have been carried out on the double-isotopic polycrystalline sample ( 7Li 0.82Fe 0.18OD)FeSe. Profile refinements of the diffraction data of a=3.7827 A and c=9.1277 A at 4 K, in the ferromagnetic

Multiferroicity in Doped Hexagonal LuFeO 3

August 27, 2015
Author(s)
Steven M. Disseler, Xuan Luo, Bin Gao, Yoon Seok Oh, Rongwei Hu, Yazhong Wang, Dylan Quintana, Alexander Zhang, Qingzhen Huang, June W. Lau, Rick L. Paul, Jeffrey W. Lynn, Sang-Wook Cheong, William D. Ratcliff
The hexagonal phase of LuFeO 3 is a rare example of a multiferroic material possessing a weak ferromagnetic moment, which is predicted to be switchable by an electric field. We stabilize this structure in bulk form through Mn and Sc doping, and determine

Influence of Electron Doping on the Ground State of (Sr 1-x La x ) 2 IrO 4

August 17, 2015
Author(s)
Xiang Chen, Tom Hogan, D. Walkup, Wenwen Zhou, M. Pokharel, Mengliang Yao, Wei Tian, Thomas Z. Ward, Yang Zhao, Daniel E. Parshall, C. Opeil, Jeffrey W. Lynn, Vidya Madhavan, Stephen D. Wilson
The evolution of the electronic properties of electron-doped (Sr 1-xLa x) 2IrO 4 is experimentally explored as the solubility limit of La is approached. As electrons are introduced, the electronic ground state transitions from a spin-orbit Mott phase into

An Itinerant Antiferromagnetic Metal Without Magnetic Constituents

July 13, 2015
Author(s)
E. Svanidze, Jiakui K. Wang, Tiglet Besara, L. Liu, Qingzhen Huang, T. Siegrist, Benjamin Frandsen, Jeffrey W. Lynn, Andriy H. Nevidomskyy, Monica Barbara Gamza, M.C. Aronson, Y.J. Uemura, E. Morosan
Itinerant and local moment magnetism have substantively different origins, and require distinct theoretical treatment. A unified theory of magnetism has long been sought after, and remains elusive, mainly due to the limited number of known itinerant

Spin Waves and Spatially Anisotropic Exchange Interactions in the S = 2 Stripe Antiferromagnet Rb 0.8 Fe 1.5 S 2

July 13, 2015
Author(s)
Meng Wang, P. Valdivia, Ming Yi, J. X. Chen, W. L. Zhang, R. A. Ewings, T. G. Perring, Yang Zhao, Leland Harriger, Jeffrey W. Lynn, E. Bourret-Courchesne, Pengcheng Dai, D. H. Lee, D. X. Yao, R. J. Birgeneau
An inelastic neutron scattering study of the spin waves corresponding to the stripe antiferromagnetic order in insulating Rb 0.8Fe 1.5S 2 throughout the Brillouin zone is reported. The spin wave spectra are well described by a Heisenberg Hamiltonian with

Neutron Spin Resonance as a Probe of Superconducting Gap Anisotropy in Partially Detwinned Electron Underdoped NaFe 0.985Co d0.015^As

June 9, 2015
Author(s)
Chenglin Zhang, J. T. Park, Xingye Lu, Rong Yu, Yu Li, Wenliang Zhang, Yang Zhao, Jeffrey W. Lynn, Qimiao Si, Pengcheng Dai
We use inelastic neutron scattering (INS) to study spin excitations in detwinned NaFe 0.985Cod0.015^As which has coexisting static antiferromagnetic (AF) order and superconductivity (T c=15 K, T N = 30 K). In previous INS work on twinned sample, spin

Topological RPdBi Half-Heusler Semimetals: a New Family of Non-Centrosymmetric Magnetic SuperconductorS

June 5, 2015
Author(s)
Yasuyuki Nakajima, Rongwei Hu, Kevin Kirshenbaum, Alex Hughes, Paul Syers, Xiangfeng Wang, Kenfeng Wang, Renxiong Wang, Shanta R. Saha, Daniel K. Pratt, Jeffrey W. Lynn, Johnpierre Paglione
We report superconductivity and magnetism in a new family of topological semimetals, the ternary half Heusler compounds RPdBi (R: rare earth). In this series, tuning of the rare earth f-electron component allows for simultaneous control of both lattice

Chemical Pressure Tuning of URu 2 Si 2 via Isoelectronic Substitution of Ru with Fe

February 26, 2015
Author(s)
Pinaki Das, N. Kanchanavatee, Joel Helton, K. Huang, R. E. Baumbach, E. D. Bauer, B. D. White, V. W. Burnett, M. B. Maple, Jeffrey W. Lynn, M. Janoschek
We have used specific heat and neutron diffraction measurements on single crystals of UR 2-xFe xSi 2 for Fe concentrations X less than or equal to} 0.7 to establish that chemical substitution of Ru with Fe acts as "chemical pressure" P ch as previously

Neutron-Scattering Measurements of Spin Excitations in LaFeAsO and Ba(Fe 0.953 Co 0.047 ) 2 As 2 : Evidence for a Sharp Enhancement of Spin Fluctuations by Nematic Order

February 4, 2015
Author(s)
Qiang Zhang, Rafael M. Fernandes, Jagat Lamsal, Jiaqiang Yan, Songxue Chi, Gregory S. Tucker, Daniel K. Pratt, Jeffrey W. Lynn, R. W. McCallum, P. C. Canfield, Thomas A. Lograsso, Alan Goldman, David Vaknin, Robert J. McQueeney
Inelastic neutron scattering was employed to investigate the impact of electronic nematic order on the magnetic spectra of LaFeAsO and Ba(Fe 0.9536Cod0.047) 2As 2. These materials are ideal to study the paramagnetic-nematic state, since the nematic order

Symmetry and Correlations Underlying Hidden Order in URu 2 Si 2

January 26, 2015
Author(s)
Nicholas P. Butch, Michael E. Manley, Jason R. Jeffries, Marc Janoschek, Kevin Huang, M. Brian Maple, Ayman H. Said, Bogdan M. Leu, Jeffrey W. Lynn
The organization of correlated electrons in the Hidden Order (HO) phase of intermetallic URu 2Si 2 is a longstanding mystery. In this work, we study the symmetry by mapping the lattice and magnetic excitations via inelastic neutron and x-ray scattering

Polaron-Mediated Spin Correlations in Metallic and Insulating La 1-x A x MnO 3 (A=Ca,Sr, or Ba)

December 3, 2014
Author(s)
Joel Helton, Daniel M Pajerowski, Yiming Qiu, Yang Zhao, Dmitry A. Shulyatev, Yakov M. Mukovskii, Georgii L. Bychkov, Sergei N. Barilo, Jeffrey W. Lynn
Neutron spectroscopy measurements reveal short-range spin correlations near and above the ferromagnetic-paramagnetic phase transition in manganite materials of the form La 10zA xMnO 3, including samples with an insulating ground state as well as colossal

Quantum Critical Fluctuations in the Heavy Fermion compound Ce(Ni^s0.935^Pd 0.065 ) 2 Ge 2

December 3, 2014
Author(s)
C. H. Wang, L. Poudel, A. E. Taylor, J .M. Lawrence, A. D. Christianson, Sung Chang, Jose Rodriguez Rivera, Jeffrey W. Lynn, A. A. Podlesnyak, G. Ehlers, R. E. Baumbach, E. D. Bauer, K. Gofryk, F. Ronning, K. J. McClellan, J. D. Thompson
Inelastic neutron scattering experiments were performed on a single crystal of the heavy Fermion compound Ce(Ni 0.935Pd 0.065) 2Ge 2 in order to study the spin fluctuations near an antiferromagnetic (AF) quantum critical point (QCP). We find that the