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Search Publications by: William D. Ratcliff (Fed)

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Electric-Field Manipulation of Magnetic Chirality in a Homo-Ferro-Rotational Helimagnet

September 4, 2024
Author(s)
Junjie Yang, Masaaki Matsuda, Trevor Tyson, Joshua Young, William Ratcliff, Yunpeng Gao, Dimuthu Obeysekera, Xiaoyu Guo, Rachel Owen, Liuyan Zhao, Sang-Wook Cheong
Ferro-rotational (FR) materials, renowned for their distinctive material functionalities, present challenges in the growth of homo-FR crystals (i.e., single FR domain). This study explores a cost-effective approach to growing homo-FR helimagnetic RbFe(SO4

Data Science Education in Undergraduate Physics: Lessons Learned from a Community of Practice

September 1, 2024
Author(s)
Karan Shah, Julie Butler, Alexis Knaub, Anil Zenginoglu, William Ratcliff, Mohammad Soltanieh-ha
It is becoming increasingly important that physics educators equip their students with the skills to work with data effectively. However, many educators may lack the necessary training and expertise in data science to teach these skills. To address this

Effects of Dimensionality on the Electronic Structure of Ruddlesden-Popper Chromates Srn+1CrnO3n+1

July 18, 2024
Author(s)
Spencer Doyle, Lerato Takana, Margaret Anderson, Dan Segedin, Hesham El-Sherif, Charles Brooks, Xiaoping Wang, Padraic Shafer, Alpha N'Diaye, Ismail El Baggari, William Ratcliff, Andres Cano, Quintin Meier, Julia Mundy
Transition-metal oxides host a wide variety of electronic phenomena that can be significantly influenced by the effective dimensionality of the system under consideration. These include charge, spin, and orbital orderings, as well as unconventional

Topological Hall effect induced by chiral fluctuations in a kagome lattice

January 30, 2024
Author(s)
Kyle Fruhling, Alenna Streeter, Sougata Mardanya, Xiaoping Wang, Priya Baral, Oksana Zaharko, Igor Mazin, Sugata Chowdhury, William Ratcliff, Fazel Tafti
Topological Hall effect (THE) is a hallmark of scalar spin chirality, which is found in static skyrmion lattices. Recent theoretical works have shown that scalar spin chirality could also emerge dynamically from thermal spin fluctuations. Evidence of such

Antiferromagnetic Metal Phase in an Electron-Doped Rare-Earth Nickelate

April 1, 2023
Author(s)
Qi Song, Spencer Doyle, Grace Pan, Ismail El Baggari, Dan Segedin, Denisse Cordova Carrizales, Johanna Nordlander, Christian Tzschaschel, James Ehrets, Zubia Hasan, Hesham El-Sherif, Jyoti Krishna, Chase Hanson, Harrison LaBollita, Aaron Bostwick, Chris Jozwiak, Eli Rotenberg, Su-Yang Xu, Alessandra Lanzara, Alpha N'Diaye, Colin Heikes, Yaohua Liu, Hanjong Paik, Charles Brooks, Betul Pamuk, John Heron, Padraic Shafer, William D. Ratcliff, Antia Botana, Luca Moreschini, Julia A. Mundy
Long viewed as passive elements, antiferromagnetic materials emerged as promising candidates for spintronic devices due to their insensitivity to external fields and potential for high-speed switching. Recent work in spin orbitronics has identified ways to

Unravelled and Glassy Magnetism in PbFe 1/2 Nb 1/2 O 3 - (2) Neutron Scattering

October 11, 2022
Author(s)
C. Stock, B. Roessli, Peter M. Gehring, Jose Rodriguez Rivera, N. Giles-Donovan, S. Cochran, Guangyong Xu, P. Manuel, M. J. Gutmann, William D. Ratcliff, T. Fennell, Y. Su, X. Li, H. Luo
We apply neutron scattering to investigate the magnetism in the relaxor ferroelectric PbFe 1/2Nb 1/2O 3 (PFN). Similar to the lack of spatially long-range ferroelectric order in prototypical relaxors like Pb(Mg,Zn) 1/3Nb 2/3O 3 (PMN and PZN), spatially

Revealing the Symmetry of Materials through Neutron Diffraction

June 12, 2022
Author(s)
William D. Ratcliff
Magnetic materials are used in many devices in everyday life. To control their properties, we must first understand how they are ordered. This can be accomplished through neutron diffraction measurements. However, in many cases, there are too many

On-the-Fly Autonomous Control of Neutron Diffraction via Physics-Informed Bayesian Active Learning

June 1, 2022
Author(s)
Austin McDannald, Matthias Frontzek, Andrew Savici, Mathieu Doucet, Efrain Rodriguez, Kate Meuse, Jessica Opsahl-Ong, Daniel Samarov, Ichiro Takeuchi, William Ratcliff, A. Gilad Kusne
We demonstrate the first live, autonomous control over neutron diffraction experiments by developing and deploying ANDiE: the autonomous neutron diffraction explorer. Neutron scattering is a unique and versatile characterization technique for probing the

A Semi-Supervised Approach for Automatic Crystal Structure Classification

November 1, 2021
Author(s)
Satvik Lolla, Haotong Liang, A. Gilad Kusne, Ichiro Takeuchi, William D. Ratcliff
The structural solution problem can be a daunting and time consuming task. Especially in the presence of impurity phases, current methods such as indexing become more unstable. In this work, we apply the novel approach of semi-supervised learning towards

Magnetic Field-Induced Non-Trivial Electronic Topology in Fe 3-x GeTe 2

October 7, 2021
Author(s)
Juan Macy, Danilo Ratkovski, Purnima P. Balakrishnan, Mara Strungaru, Yu-Che Chiu, Aikaterini Flessa, Alex Moon, Wenkai Zheng, Ashley Weiland, Gregory T. McCandless, Julia Y. Chan, Govind S. Kumar, Michael Shatruk, Alexander Grutter, Julie Borchers, William D. Ratcliff, Eun S. Choi, Elton J. Santos, Luis Balicas
The anomalous Hall, Nernst and thermal Hall coefficients of the itinerant ferromagnet Fe 3−xGeTe 2 display several features upon cooling, like a reversal in the Nernst signal below T = 50 K pointing to a topological transition possibly associated to the

Magnetic Ordering and Structural Distortion in PrFeAsO Single Crystal Studied by Neutron and X-ray Scattering

May 5, 2021
Author(s)
M. G. Kim, William D. Ratcliff, D. M. Pajerowski, J.-W. Kim, J.-Q. Yan, Jeffrey W. Lynn, A. I. Goldman, A. Kreyssig
We report the magnetic ordering and structural distortion in PrFeAsO crystals, the basis compound for one of the oxypnictide superconductors, using high-resolution x-ray diffraction, neutron diffraction, and x-ray resonant magnetic scattering (XRMS). We

Control of Magnetoelectric Coupling in the Co 2 Y-Type Hexaferrites

March 16, 2021
Author(s)
Chang B. Park, Kwang W. Shin, Sae H. Chun, Jun H. Lee, Yoon S. Oh, Steven M. Disseler, Colin A. Heikes, William D. Ratcliff, Woo-Suk Noh, Jae-Hoon Park, Kee H. Kim
We comprehensively investigated the magnetic, ferroelectric, and ME properties of Ba 2-xSr xCo 2(Fe 1-yAl y) 12O 22 single crystals in broad doping ranges of Sr (1.0 less than or equal to} x less than or equal to} 1.8) and Al (0.00 less than or equal to} y