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Magnetic Structure and Spin Waves in the Frustrated Ferro-Antiferro Magnet Pb 2 VO(PO 4 ) 2

May 28, 2019
Author(s)
S. Bettler, F. Landolt, O. M. Aksoy, Z. Yan, S. Gvasaliya, Yiming Qiu, E. Ressouche, K. Beauvois, S. Raymond, A. N. Ponomaryov, S. A. Zvyagin, A. Zheludev
Single crystal neutron diffraction, inelastic neutron scattering and electron spin resonance experiments are used to study the magnetic structure and spin waves in Pb 2VO(PO 4) 2, a prototypical layered S =1/2 ferromagnet with frustrating next nearest

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

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

Continuum of Quantum Fluctuations in a Three-Dimensional S = 1 Heisenberg Magnet

January 1, 2019
Author(s)
K. W. Plumb, Hitesh J. Changlani, A. Scheie, Shu Zhang, J. W. Krizan, Jose Rodriguez Rivera, Yiming Qiu, B. Winn, R. J. Cava, Collin L. Broholm
Spin liquids are a fundamentally new phase of matter that cannot be described by a broken symmetry and have no order parameter. While the quantum entanglement that characterizes a quantum spin liquid is not directly accessible to any current measurement

Comprehensive Inelastic Neutron Scattering Study of the Multiferroic Mn 1-x Co x WO 4

December 14, 2018
Author(s)
Jinchen Wang, R. S. Fishman, Yiming Qiu, J. A. Fernandez-Baca, Georg Ehlers, K.-C. Liang, Yaqi Wang, Bernd Lorenz, C. W. Chu, Feng Ye
Using high-resolution inelastic neutron scattering, we examine the spin dynamics of Mn 1-xCo xWO 4 in the collinear AF1, the ac-b spiral AF2, and the ac spiral AF5 phases. The spin wave excitations are well described by a Heisenberg model with competing

The Nature of Spin Excitations in the One-Third Magnetization Plateau Phase of Ba 3 CoSb 2 O 9

July 10, 2018
Author(s)
Y. Kamiya, L. Ge, Tao Hong, Yiming Qiu, D. L. Quintero-Castro, Z. Lu, H. B. Cao, M. Matsuda, E. S. Choi, C. D. Batista, M. Mourigal, H. D. Zhou, J. Ma
A recent experiment revealed that the spin-1/2 triangular-lattice Heisenberg antiferromagnet Ba 3CoSb 2O 9 is a magnetically ordered material with an anomalous excitation spectrum, comprising a high-intensity excitation continuum and short-lived magnons

Local Quantum Phase Transition in YFe 2 Al^d10

July 3, 2018
Author(s)
W. J. Gannon, L. S. Wu, I. A. Zaliznyak, W. H. Xu, A. M. Tsvelik, Yiming Qiu, Jose Rodriguez Rivera, M. C. Aronson
A phase transition occurs when correlated regions of a new phase grow to span the system and the fluctuations within the correlated regions become long-lived. Here we present neutron scattering measurements showing that this conventional picture must be

Naturally Tuned Quantum Critical Point in the S = 1 Kagome YCa 3 (VO) 3 (BO 3 ) 4

April 26, 2018
Author(s)
Harlyn J. Silverstein, Ryan Sinclair, Arzoo Sharma, Yiming Qiu, Ivo Heinmaa, Alexander Leitmae, Christopher R. Wiebe, R. Stern, Haidong Zhou
Although S = 1/2 kagome systems have been intensely studied theoretically, and within the last decade been realized experimentally, much less is known about the S = 1 analogues. While the theoretical ground state is still under debate, it has been found

Screened Moments and Extrinsic In-Gap States in Samarium Hexaboride

April 18, 2018
Author(s)
W. T. Fuhrman, J. R. Chamorro, P. A. Alekseev, J.-M. Mignot, T. Keller, Jose Rodriguez Rivera, Yiming Qiu, P. Nikolic, T. M. McQueen, Collin L. Broholm
The Kondo impurity effect in metals is the result of quantum-mechanical scattering of conduction electrons by magnetic impurities. 1 This process leads to exotic effects such as unconventional superconductivity and an effective electron mass enhanced by 2

Quantum Critical Singularities in Two-Dimensional Metallic XY Ferromagnets

February 20, 2018
Author(s)
Chandra M. Varma, W. J. Gannon, M. C. Aronson, Jose Rodriguez Rivera, Yiming Qiu
An important problem in contemporary physics concerns quantum-critical fluctuations in metals. A scaling function for the momentum, frequency, temperature and magnetic field dependence of the correlation function near a 2D-ferromagnetic quantum-critical

Doping-Induced Redistribution of Magnetic Spectral Weight in the Substituted Hexaborides Ce 1-x La x B 6 and Ce 1-x Nd x B 6

February 9, 2018
Author(s)
S. E. Nikitin, P. Y. Portnichenko, A. V. Dukhnenko, N.Yu. Shitsevalova, V. B. Filipov, Yiming Qiu, Jose Rodriguez Rivera, J. Ollivier, D. S. Inosov
We investigate the doping-induced changes in the electronic structure of CeB 6 on a series of substituted Ce 1-xR xB 6 and Ce 1-xNd xB 6 samples (R = La,Nd) using diffuse neutron scattering. We observe a redistribution of magnetic spectral weight across

Nonreciprocal Magnons and Symmetry-Breaking in the Noncentrosymmetric Antiffomagnet

July 24, 2017
Author(s)
G. Gitgeatpong, Yang Zhao, P. Piyawongwatthana, Yiming Qiu, Leland Harriger, Nicholas Butch, T. J. Sato, K. Matan
Magnons, the spin-wave quanta, are disturbances that embody a wave propagating through a back-ground medium formed by ordered magnetic moments. In an isotropic Heisenberg system, these disturbances vary in a continuous manner around an ordered spin

Higgs Amplitude Mode in a Two-Dimensional Quantum Antiferromagnet near the Quantum Critical Point0

July 4, 2017
Author(s)
Tao Hong, Masashige Matsumoto, Yiming Qiu, Wangchun Chen, Thomas R. Gentile, Shannon M. Watson, Firas F. Awwadi, Mark M. Turnbull, Sachith E. Dissanayake, Harish Agrawal, Rasmus Toft-Petersen, Bastian Klemke, Kris Coester, Kai P. Schmidt, David A Tennant
Spontaneous symmetry-breaking quantum phase transitions play an essential role in current condensed matter physics 1-3. The collective excitations in the broken-symmetry phase near the quantum critical point can be characterized by fluctuations of phase

Field Induced Spontaneous Quasiparticle Decay and Renormalization of Quasiparticle Dispersion in a Quantum Antiferromagnet

May 5, 2017
Author(s)
Tao Hong, Yiming Qiu, M. Matsumoto, D. A. Tennant, K. Coester, K. P. Schmidt, F.F. Awwadi, M. M. Turnbull, H. Agrawal, A. L. Chernyshev
We present the fine-resolution neutron scattering study in magnetic fields applied perpendicular to an easy-axis (Ising type) on the S=1/2 coupled two-leg ladder antiferromagnet (dimethylammonium)(3,5-dimethylpyridinium)CuBr 4. At finite fields, the

Disordered Route to the Coulomb Quantum Spin Liquid: Random Transverse Fields on Spin Ice in Pr 2 Zr 2 O 7

March 8, 2017
Author(s)
J.-J. Wen, S.M. Koohpayeh, K. A. Ross, B. A. Trump, T. M. McQueen, K. Kimura, S. Nakatsuji, Yiming Qiu, D. M. Pajerowski, John R. Copley, Collin L. Broholm
Inelastic neutron scattering reveals a broad continuum of excitations in Pr 2Zr 2O 7, the temperature and magnetic field dependence of which indicate a continuous distribution of quenched transverse fields (Δ}) acting on the non-Kramers Pr 3+ crystal

Recent Advancements of Wide-Angle Polarization Analysis with 3 He neutron Spin Filters

October 10, 2016
Author(s)
WangChun Chen, Thomas R. Gentile, Qiang NMN Ye, A. Kirchhoff, Shannon Watson, Jose A. Rodriguez, Yiming Qiu, Collin L. Broholm
Wide-angle polarization analysis with polarized 3He based neutron spin filters (NSFs) has recently been employed on the Multi-Axis Crystal Spectrometer (MACS) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology Center for Neutron Research (NCNR). Over

Robust Upward Dispersion of the Neutron Spin Resonance in the Heavy Fermion Superconductor Ce 1-x Yb x CoIn 5

September 28, 2016
Author(s)
Yu Song, John Van Dyke, I. K. Lum, B. D. White, L. Shu, A. Schneidewind, Petr Cermak, Yiming Qiu, M. B. Maple, Dirk K. Morr, Pengcheng Dai
Understanding the origin of unconventional superconductivity in strongly correlated electron materials continues to be at the forefront of modern condensed matter physics [1-5]. In copper oxides [6-8], iron pnictides [9, 10], and heavy fermion [11, 12]

Modulated Magnetism and Anomalous Electronic Transport in Ce 3 Cu 4 As 4 O 2

August 29, 2016
Author(s)
Jiakui K. Wang, Shan Wu, Yiming Qiu, Jose Rodriguez Rivera, Qingzhen Huang, Collin L. Broholm, E. Morosan
The complex magnetism and transport properties of tetragonal Ce 3Cu 4As 4O 2 were examined through neutron scattering and physical properties measurements on polycrystalline samples. The lamellar structure consists of alternating layers of CeCu 4As 4 with

Modulated Magnetism and Anomalous Electronic Transport in Ce 3 Cu 4 As 4 O 2

August 29, 2016
Author(s)
Jiakui K. Wang, Shan Wu, Yiming Qiu, Jose Rodriguez Rivera, Qingzhen Huang, Collin L. Broholm, E. Morosan
The complex magnetism and transport properties of tetragonal Ce 3Cu 4As 4O 2 were examined through neutron scattering and physical properties measurements on polycrystalline samples. We find a lamellar structure consisting of alternating layers of CeCu 4As

Orbital-Exchange and Fractional Quantum Number Excitations in an f-electron Metal Yb 2 Pt 2 Pb

June 3, 2016
Author(s)
L. S. Wu, W. J. Gannon, I. A. Zaliznyak, A. M. Tsvelik, M. Brockmann, J.-S. Caux, M. S. Kim, Yiming Qiu, John R. Copley, G. Ehlers, A. Podlesnyak, M. C. Aronson
Exotic quantum states and fractionalized magnetic excitations, such as spinons in one-dimensional chains, are generally viewed as belonging to the domain of 3d transition metal systems with spin 1/2. Our neutron scattering experiments on the 4f-electron

Effective Spin-1/2 Scalar Chiral Order on Kagome Lattices in Nd 3 Sb 3 Mg 2 O 14

May 20, 2016
Author(s)
A. Scheie, M. Sanders, J. Krizan, Yiming Qiu, R. J. Cava, Collin L. Broholm
We introduce Nd 3Sb 3Mg 2O 14 with ideal kagome lattices of neodymium ions in ABC stacking. Thermodynamic measurements show a Curie-Weiss temperature of θ cw = -0.12 Jm a Bd 3+ spin 1/2 Kramers doublet ground state, and as second order phase transition at

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

Quasiparticle-Continuum Level Repulsion in a Quantum Magnet

March 1, 2016
Author(s)
K. W. Plumb, Kyusung Hwang, Yiming Qiu, Leland Harriger, G. E. Granroth, Alexander I. Kolesnikov, G. J. Shu, F. C. Chou, Ch. Ruegg, Yong Baek Kim, Young-June Kim
When the energy eigenvalues of two coupled quantum states approach each other in a certain parameter space, their energy levels repel each other and level crossing is avoided. Such level repulsion, or avoided level crossing, is commonly used to describe

Gapped and Gapless Short-Range-Ordered Magnetic States with (1/2,1/2,1/2) Wave Vectors in the Pyrochlore Magnet Tb 2+x Ti 2-X O 7+d

December 10, 2015
Author(s)
E. Kermarrec, D. D. Maharaj, J. Gaudet, K. Fritsch, D. Pomaranski, J. B. Kycia, Yiming Qiu, John R. Copley, M. M. P. Couchman, A. O. R. Morningstar, H. A. Dabkowska, B. D. Gaulin
Recent low temperature heat capacity (CP ) measurements on polycrystalline samples of the py- rochlore antiferromagnet Tb 2+xTi 2¿xO 7+δ have shown a strong sensitivity to the precise Tb con- centration x, with a large anomaly exhibited for x0.005 at TC0.5