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Nicholas Butch (Fed)

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An Optical Investigation of the Heavy Fermion Normal State in Superconducting UTe 2

April 13, 2022
Author(s)
Sirak Mekonen, Chang-Jong Kang, Dipanjan Chaudhuri, David Barbalas, Sheng Ran, Gabriel Kotliar, Nicholas Butch, N. Armitage
The recently discovered superconductor, UTe2, has attracted immense scientific interest due to the experimental observations that suggest odd-parity superconductivity. It is believed that the material becomes a heavy-fermion metal at low temperatures

Evolution of Magnetic Interactions in Sb-Substituted MnBi 2 Te 4

April 13, 2022
Author(s)
S. Riberolles, Q. Zhang, Elijah Gordon, Nicholas Butch, Liqin Ke, J.-Q. Yan, R. McQueeney
The Mn(Bi1−xSbx)2Te4 series is purported to span from antiferromagnetic (AF) topological insulator at x = 0 to a trivial AF insulator at x = 1. Here we report on neutron diffraction and inelastic neutron scattering studies of the magnetic interactions

Interplay between Magnetism and Superconductivity in UTe 2

April 13, 2022
Author(s)
Di Wei, David Saykin, Oliver Miller, Sheng Ran, Shanta Saha, Daniel Agterberg, Jorg Schmalian, Nicholas Butch, Johnpierre N. Paglione, Aharon Kapitulnik
Time-reversal symmetry breaking (TRSB) in UTe2 was inferred from observations of a spontaneous Kerr response in the superconducting state after cooling in zero magnetic field, while a finite c-axis magnetic field training was further used to determine the

The case for a U(1) p Quantum Spin Liquid Ground State in the Dipole-Octupole Pyrochlore Ce 2 Zr 2 O 7

April 13, 2022
Author(s)
E. Smith, O. Benton, D. Yahne, B. Placke, Jonathan Gaudet, J. Dudemaine, A. Fitterman, J. Beare, A. Wildes, S. Bhattacharya, T. DeLazzer, C.R.C. Buhariwalla, Nicholas Butch, R. Movshovich, J. Garrett, C. Marjerrison, J. Clancy, E. Kermarrec, G. Luke, A. Bianchi, K. Ross, B. Gaulin
The Ce3+ pseudospin-1/2 degrees of freedom in the pyrochlore magnet Ce2Zr2O7 are known to possess dipole-octupole (DO) character, making it a candidate for novel quantum spin liquid (QSL) ground states at low temperatures. We report new heat capacity (Cp)

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

Quantum Phase Transitions in a Quasi-One-Dimensional Ising Quantum Magnet in Transverse Fields

April 15, 2021
Author(s)
Xiaowen Zhang, Zheng He, Yiqing Hao, Yao Shen, Shoudong Shen, Yu Feng, Guangyong Xu, Nicholas Butch, Goran J. Nilsen, Wenbin Wang, Jun Zhao
We report neutron scattering and thermodynamic measurements of the quasi-one-dimensional Ising magnet SrCo2V2O8 under transverse fields along the tetragonal a/b direction. Our experiments reveal a Neel-type magnetic order in zero field, which successively

Frustrated Heisenberg J 1 -J 2 Model within the Stretched Diamond Lattice of LiYbO 2

January 14, 2021
Author(s)
Mitchell M. Bordelon, Chunxiao Liu, Lorenzo Posthuma, Eric Kenney, M. J. Graf, Nicholas Butch, Arnab Banerjee, Stuart Calder, Leon Balents, Stephen Wilson
We investigate the magnetic properties of LiYbO2, containing a three-dimensionally frustrated, diamondlike lattice via neutron scattering, magnetization, and heat capacity measurements. The stretched diamond network of Yb3+ ions in LiYbO2 enters a long

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

Enhancement and Reentrance of Spin Triplet Superconductivity in UTe 2 under Pressure

April 14, 2020
Author(s)
Sheng NMN Ran, Hyunsoo Kim, I-Lin Liu, Shanta Ranjan Saha, Ian Hayes, Tristin Metz, Yun Suk Eo, Johnpierre N. Paglione, Nicholas Butch
In a Kondo lattice system, suppression of effective Kondo coupling leads to the breakdown of the heavy-electron metal and a change in the electronic structure^1-4^. Spin triplet superconductivity in the Kondo lattice UTe25 appears to be associated with

Quasi-two-dimensional magnon identification in antiferromagnetic FePS3 via magneto-Raman spectroscopy

February 18, 2020
Author(s)
Amber D. McCreary, Jeffrey R. Simpson, Thuc T. Mai, Robert D. McMichael, Jason E. Douglas, Nicholas P. Butch, Cindi L. Dennis, Rolando Valdes Aguilar, Angela R. Hight Walker
Recently it was discovered that van der Waals-bonded magnets retain long range magnetic ordering even down to a monolayer thickness, opening many avenues in fundamental physics and potential applications of these fascinating materials. One example is FePS3

Valence Instability Across the Magnetostructural Transition in USb 2

February 14, 2020
Author(s)
Z. E. Brubaker, Y. Xiao, P. Chow, C. Kenney-Benson, J. S. Smith, H. Cynn, C. Reynolds, Nicholas Butch, R. J. Zieve, J. R. Jeffries
We have performed pressure dependent X-ray diffraction and resonant X-ray emission spectroscopy experiments on USb2 to further characterize the AFM-FM transition occuring near 8 GPa. We have found the magnetic transition coincides with a tetragonal to

Ungapped Magnetic Excitations Beyond Hidden Order in URu 2-x Re x Si 2

February 12, 2020
Author(s)
Nicholas P. Butch, Jose A. Rodriguez, M. Brian Maple
We use inelastic neutron scattering measurements to show that the energy gap in the magnetic excitations of URu2Si2, induced by the Hidden Order transition, is closed by Re substitution. The magnetic excitations remain ungapped in compositions where the

Point-Node Gap Structure of Spin-Triplet Superconductor UTe 2

December 19, 2019
Author(s)
Tristin Metz, Seokjin Bae, Sheng NMN Ran, I-Lin Liu, Yun Suk Eo, Wesley T. Fuhrman, Daniel F. Agterberg, Steven M. Anlage, Nicholas Butch, Johnpierre Paglione
Low-temperature electrical and thermal transport, heat capacity and magnetic penetration depth measurements were performed on single crystals of the actinide superconductor UTe2 to determine the structure of the superconducting energy gap. Millikelvin

Extreme Magnetic Field-Boosted Superconductivity

December 1, 2019
Author(s)
Sheng NMN Ran, I Lin NMN Liu, Yun Suk Eo, Daniel J. Campbell, Paul M. Neves, Wesley T. Fuhrman, Shanta Ranjan Saha, Christoper Eckberg, Hyunsoo Kim, David Graf, Fedor Balakirev, John Singleton, Johnpierre N. Paglione, Nicholas Butch
Applied magnetic fields underlie exotic quantum states, such as the fractional quantum Hall effect1 and Bose-Einstein condensation of spin excitations2. Superconductivity, on the other hand, is inherently antagonistic towards magnetic fields. Only in rare

Coexistence of Ferromagnetic Fluctuations and Superconductivity in the Actinide Superconductor UTe 2

October 23, 2019
Author(s)
Shyam Sundar, S. Gheidi, K. Akintola, A. M. Cote, S. R. Dunsiger, S. Ran, Nicholas Butch, S. R. Saha, J. Paglione, J. E. Sonier
We report low-temperature muon spin relaxation/rotation (υSR) measurements on single crystals of the actinide superconductor UTe2. Below 5 K we observe a continuous slowing down of magnetic fluctuations, which persists through the superconducting

Polarization-resolved Raman spectroscopy of \alpha-RuCl3 and evidence of room temperature two-dimensional magnetic scattering

October 14, 2019
Author(s)
Thuc T. Mai, Amber D. McCreary, P. Lampen-Kelley, Nicholas P. Butch, Jeffrey R. Simpson, J.-Q. Yan, S. E. Nagler, D. Mandrus, Angela R. Hight Walker, Rolando Valdes Aguilar
Polarization-resolved Raman spectroscopy was performed and analyzed from large, high quality, mono-domain single crystal of \alpha-RuCl3, a proximate Kitaev quantum spin liquid. Spectra were collected with laser polarizations parallel and perpendicular to

Field-Tunable Quantum Disordered Ground State in the Triangular-Lattice Antiferromagnet NaYbO 2

October 1, 2019
Author(s)
Mitchell M. Bordelon, Eric Kenney, Chunxiao Liu, Tom Hogan, Lorenzo Posthuma, Marzieh Kavand, Yuangqi Lyu, Mark Sherwin, Nicholas Butch, Craig Brown, M. J. Graf, Leon Balents, Stephen D. Wilson
One of the simplest routes to pursuing magnets with strong quantum fluctuations that quench conventional order is via decorating a triangular lattice with antiferromagnetically coupled S=1/2 moments. As disorder and anisotropies inherent in materials