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Nicholas Butch (Fed)

Nicholas P. Butch

At the NCNR, I am an instrument contact for NG-4 DCS. I primarily support experiments involving unconventional magnetism and what might be generally termed hard condensed matter physics. If you are thinking of doing a measurement on DCS, you are encouraged to contact me before proposal submission to discuss experimental details.

For more information about my personal research, please visit the NPB homepage.

Positions Available

Recent or upcoming PhD graduates who are interested in postdoctoral research focusing on novel superconductivity, magnetism, and/or quantum phase transitions through a variety of techniques ranging from sample synthesis to neutron scattering are invited to apply for a NRC postdocdoral fellowship.

For more details, please contact nicholas.butch [at] nist.gov (Dr. Butch).

NIST contact info

Dr. Nicholas Butch
NIST Center for Neutron Research
100 Bureau Drive
Gaithersburg, MD 20899-6102

(301) 975 - 4863 

nicholas.butch [at] nist.gov (nicholas[dot]butch[at]nist[dot]gov) 

Awards

Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2017)

NIST Sigma Xi Katharine B. Gebbie Young Scientist Award (2016)

Publications

Absence of a Bulk Signature of a Charge Density Wave in Hard X-ray Measurements of UTe2

Author(s)
Caitlin Kengle, Dipanjan Chaudhuri, Xuefei Guo, Thomas Johnson, Simon Bettler, Wolfgang Simeth, Matthew Krogstad, Zahir Islam, Sheng Ran, Shanta Saha, Johnpierre Paglione, Nicholas Butch, Eduardo Fradkin, Vidya Madhavan, Peter Abbamonte
The long-sought pair density wave (PDW) is an exotic phase of matter in which charge density wave (CDW) order is intertwined with the amplitude or phase of

Synthesis and characterization of the novel breathing pyrochlore compound Ba3Tm2Zn5O11

Author(s)
Lalit Yadav, Rabindranath Bag, Ramesh Dhakal, Stephen Winter, Jeffrey Rau, Alexander Kolesnikov, Andrey Podlesnyak, Craig Brown, Nicholas Butch, David Graf, Michel Gingras, Sara Haravifard
In this study, a novel material from the rare-earth based breathing pyrochlore family, Ba3Tm2Zn5O11, was successfully synthesized. Powder X-ray diffraction and

Absence of a Bulk Thermodynamic Phase Transition to aDensity Wave Phase in UTe2

Author(s)
Florian Theuss, Avi Shragai, Gael Grissonnanche, Luciano Peralta, Ian Hayes, Shanta Saha, Yun Eo, Alonso Suarez, Andrea Capa Salinas, Ganesh Pokharel, Stephen Wilson, Nicholas Butch, Johnpierre Paglione
Competing and intertwined orders are ubiquitous in strongly correlated electron systems, such as the charge, spin, and superconducting orders in the high-Tc

Skyrmion Lattice Formation and Destruction Mechanisms Probed with TR-SANS

Author(s)
W. L. N. C. Liyanage, Nan Tang, Rebecca Dally, Lizabeth J. Quigley, C. Buchanan, Guo-Jiun Shu, Nicholas Butch, Kathryn Krycka, Markus Bleuel, Julie A. Borchers, Debeer-Schmitt Lisa, Dustin Gilbert
Magnetic skyrmions are topologically protected, nanoscale whirls of the spin configuration that tend to form hexagonally ordered arrays. As a topologically non

Orphan high field superconductivity in non-superconducting uranium ditelluride.

Author(s)
Corey Frank, Sylvia Lewin, Gicela Saucedo Salas, Peter Czajka, Ian Hayes, Hyeok Yoon, Tristin Metz, Johnpierre Paglione, John Singleton, Nicholas Butch
Reentrant superconductivity is an uncommon phenomenon in which the destructive effects of magnetic field on superconductivity are mitigated, allowing a zero
Created May 31, 2018, Updated December 8, 2022