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

October 9, 2024
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 coexisting, superconducting order. Originally predicted to exist in copper-oxides, circumstantial

Synthesis and characterization of the novel breathing pyrochlore compound Ba3Tm2Zn5O11

July 3, 2024
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 high-resolution powder neutron diffraction confirmed phase purity and crystal structure, while

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

June 20, 2024
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 cuprates. Recent scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) measurements provide evidence for a charge

Inhomogeneous High Temperature Melting and Decoupling of Charge Denisty Waves in Spin-Triplet Superconductor UTe2

May 25, 2024
Author(s)
Alexander LaFleur, Hong Li, Corey Frank, Muxian Xu, Siyu Cheng, Ziqiang Wang, Nicholas Butch, Ilija Zeljkovic
Charge, spin and Cooper-pair density waves have now been widely detected in exotic superconductors. Understanding how these density waves emerge — and become suppressed by external parameters—is a key research direction in condensedmatter physics. Here we

Skyrmion Lattice Formation and Destruction Mechanisms Probed with TR-SANS

April 30, 2024
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-trivial structure, the nucleation and annihilation of the skyrmion, as well as the interaction

Orphan high field superconductivity in non-superconducting uranium ditelluride.

April 20, 2024
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-resistance state to survive under conditions that would otherwise destroy it. Typically, the

Orphan High Field Superconductivity in Non-Superconducting Uranium Ditelluride

April 19, 2024
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-resistance state to survive under conditions that would otherwise destroy it. Typically, the

Charge Order Evolution of Superconducting BaNi2As2 Under High Pressure

November 2, 2023
Author(s)
John Collini, Daniel Campbell, Daniel Sneed, Prathum Saraf, Christoper Eckberg, Jason Jeffries, Nicholas Butch, Johnpierre Paglione
BaNi2As2, a nonmagnetic superconductor counterpart to BaFe2As2, has been shown to develop nematic order, multiple charge orders, and a dramatic sixfold enhancement of superconductivity via isovalent chemical substitution of Sr for Ba. Here we present high

A Review of UTe2 at High Magnetic Fields

November 1, 2023
Author(s)
Sylvia Lewin, Corey Frank, Sheng Ran, Johnpierre Paglione, Nicholas Butch
ranium ditelluride (UTe2) is recognized as a host material to unconventional spin-triplet superconductivity, but it also exhibits a wealth of additional unusual behavior at high magnetic fields. One of the most prominent signatures of the unconventional

Single-Component Superconductivity in UTe2 at Ambient Pressure

July 21, 2023
Author(s)
Florian Theuss, Avi Shragai, Gael Grissonnanche, Ian Hayes, Shanta Saha, Yun Eo, Alonso Suaraz, Tatsuya Shishidou, Nicholas Butch, Johnpierre Paglione, B. Ramshaw
The microscopic mechanism of Cooper pairing in a superconductor leaves its fingerprint on the symmetry of the order parameter. UTe2 has been inferred to have a multi-component order parameter that entails exotic effects like time reversal symmetry breaking

Single-Component Superconductivity in UTe2 at Ambient Pressure

July 21, 2023
Author(s)
Florian Theuss, Avi Shragai, Gael Grissonnanche, Ian Hayes, Shanta Saha, Yun Eo, Alonso Suarez, Tatsuya Shishidou, Nicholas Butch, Johnpierre Paglione, B. Ramshaw
The microscopic mechanism of Cooper pairing in a superconductor leaves its fingerprint on the symmetry of the order parameter. UTe2 has been inferred to have a multi-component order parameter that entails exotic effects like time reversal symmetry breaking

Tuning a magnetic energy scale with pressure in UTe2

July 1, 2023
Author(s)
Hyunsoo Kim, I-Lin Liu, Wen-Chen Lin, Yun Eo, Sheng Ran, Nicholas Butch, Johnpierre Paglione
A fragile ordered state can be easily tuned by various external parameters. When the ordered state is suppressed to zero temperature, a quantum phase transition occurs, which is often marked by the appearance of unconventional superconductivity. While the

Detection of a Pair Density Wavestate in UTe2

June 28, 2023
Author(s)
Qiangqiang Gu, Joseph Carroll, Shuqiu Wang, Sheng Ran, Christopher Broyles, Hasan Siddiquee, Nicholas Butch, Shanta Saha, Johnpierre Paglione, J. Davis, Xiaolong Liu

Melting of the Charge Density Wave by Generation of Pairs of Topological Defects in UTe2

June 14, 2023
Author(s)
Anuva Aishwarya, Julian May-Mann, Avior Almoalem, Sheng Ran, Shanta Saha, Johnpierre Paglione, Nicholas Butch, Eduardo Fradkin, Vidya Madhavan
Topological defects are singularities in an ordered phase that can have a profound effect on phase transitions and serve as a window into the order parameter. Examples of topological defects include dislocations in charge density waves and vortices in a

Ubiquitous Spin Freezing in the Superconducting State of UTe2

February 1, 2023
Author(s)
Shyam Sundar, Nasrin Azari, Mariah Goeks, Shayan Gheidi, Mae Abedi, Michael Yakovlev, Sarah Dunsiger, John Wilkinson, Stephen Blundell, Tristin Metz, Ian Hayes, Shanta Saha, Sangyun Lee, Andrew Woods, Roman Movshovich, Sean Thomas, Nicholas Butch, Priscila Rosa, Johnpierre Paglione, Jeff Sonier

c-axis Transport in UTe2: Evidence of Three-Dimensional Conductivity Component

August 24, 2022
Author(s)
Yun S. Eo, Shouzheng Liu, Shanta Saha, Hyunsoo Kim, Sheng Ran, Jarryd A. Horn, Halyna Hodovanets, John Collini, Tristin Metz, Wesley T. Fuhrman, Andriy H. Nevidomskyy, Jonathan D. Denlinger, Nicholas Butch, Michael S. Fuhrer, L. A. Wray, Johnpierre Paglione
We study the temperature dependence of electrical resistivity for currents directed along all crystallographic axes of the spin-triplet superconductor UTe 2. We focus particularly on an accurate determination of the resistivity along the c-axis (ρ c) by

Towards Understanding the Magnetic Properties of the Breathing Pyrochlore Compound Ba 3 Yb 2 Zn 5 O 11 through Single-Crystal Studies

August 10, 2022
Author(s)
Sachith Dissanayake, Zhenzhong Shi, Jeffrey Rau, Rabindranath Bag, William Steinhardt, Nicholas Butch, Matthias Frontzek, Andrey Podlesnyak, David Graf, Casey Marjerrison, Jue Liu, Michel J. Gingras, Sara Haravifard
Ba 3Yb 2Zn 5O 11 is unique among breathing pyrochlore compounds for being in the nearly-decoupled limit where inter-tetrahedra interactions are weak, hosting isolated clusters or molecular magnet like tetrahedra of magnetic ytterbium (Ybu3+^) ions. In this

Magnetic-field sensitive charge density wave orders in the superconducting phase of UTe2

July 19, 2022
Author(s)
Anuva Aishwarya, Julian May-Mann, Arjun Raghavan, Laimei Nie, Marisa Romanelli, Sheng Ran, Shanta Saha, Johnpierre Paglione, Nicholas Butch, Eduardo Fradkin, Vidya Madhavan
The intense interest in triplet superconductivity partly stems from theoretical predictions of exotic excitations such as non-abelian Majorana modes, chiral supercurrents, and half-quantum vortices. However, fundamentally new, and unexpected states may

CHESS: The Future Direct Geometry Spectrometer at the Second Target Station

June 1, 2022
Author(s)
G. Sala, M. Mourigal, C. Boone, Nicholas Butch, A. Christianson, O. Delaire, A. J. DeSantis, C. L. Hart, R. Hermann, T. Huegle, D. N. Kent, J. Y. Lin, M. Lumsden, M. Manley, D. G. Quirinale, M. B. Stone, Y. Z.
CHESS is a planned direct geometry neutron chopper spectrometer designed to detect and analyze weak signals intrinsic to small cross-sections (e.g., small mass, small magnetic moments or neutron absorbing materials) in powders, liquids and crystals. CHESS

Symmetry of Magnetic Correlations in Spin-Triplet Superconductor UTe2

April 5, 2022
Author(s)
Nicholas Butch, Sheng Ran, Shanta Saha, Paul Neves, Mark P. Zic, Johnpierre N. Paglione, Yegor N. Vekhov, Sergiy Gladchenko, Jose Rodriguez Rivera
The temperature dependence of the low-energy magnetic excitations in the spin-triplet superconductor UTe2 was measured via inelastic neutron scattering in the normal and superconducting states. These excitations have a peak instensity at 4 meV, follow the

Non-magnetic ion site disorder effects on the quantum magnetism of a spin-1/2 equilateral triangular lattice antiferromagnet

March 10, 2022
Author(s)
Qing Huang, R. Rawl, W. W. Xie, E. S. Chou, V. S. Zapf, X. X. Ding, C. Mauws, C. R. Wiebe, E. X. Feng, H. B. Cao, W. Tian, J. Ma, Yiming Qiu, Nicholas Butch, H. D. Zhou
With the motivation to study how non-magnetic ion site disorder affects the quantum magnetism of Ba3CoSb2O9, a spin-1/2 equilateral triangular lattice antiferromagnet, we performed DC and AC susceptibility, specific heat, elastic and inelastic neutron