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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 URu 2Si 2, 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 UTe 2 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 effect 1 and Bose-Einstein condensation of spin excitations 2. Superconductivity, on the other hand, is inherently antagonistic towards magnetic fields. Only in

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 UTe 2. 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

Phonon Dispersion of Mo-stabilized -g-U measured using Inelastic X-ray Scattering

September 30, 2019
Author(s)
Z. E. Brubaker, Sheng NMN Ran, A. H. Said, M. E. Manley, P. Soderlind, D. Rosas, Y. Idell, R. J. Zieve, Nicholas Butch, J. R. Jeffries
We have measured the room-temperature phonon spectrum of Mo-stabilized γ−U. The dispersion curves show unusual softening near the H point, q=[1/2,1/2,1/2], which may derive from the metastability of the γ−U phase or from strong electron-phonon coupling

Nearly Ferromagnetic Spin-Triplet Superconductivity

August 18, 2019
Author(s)
Sheng N. Ran, Christoper Eckberg, Qing-Ping Ding, Yuji Furukawa, Tristin Metz, Shanta R. Saha, I Lin NMN Liu, Mark Zic, Hyunsoo Kim, Johnpierre N. Paglione, Nicholas Butch
One of the most interesting differences between spin triplet superconductors and the conventional spin singlet variety is the two-component triplet order parameter that allows spin up and down electrons to couple with different strength. Such nonunitary

Observation of Plasmon-Phonons in a Metamaterial Superconductor using Inelastic Neutron Scattering

July 24, 2019
Author(s)
Vera N. Smolyaninova, Jeffrey W. Lynn, Nicholas Butch, Heather H. Chen-Mayer, Joseph C. Prestigiacomo, M. S. Osofsky, Igor I. Smolyaninov
Recent experiments have demonstrated that the metamaterial approach is capable of drastically increasing the critical temperature, T c, of composite metal-dielectric epsilon near zero (ENZ) metamaterial superconductors. For example, a tripling of the

Quantum Spin Ice Dynamics in the Dipole-Octupole Pyrochlore Magnet Ce 2 Zr 2 O 7

May 7, 2019
Author(s)
Jonathan Gaudet, E. M. Smith, J. Dudemaine, J. Beare, C.R.C. Buhariwalla, Nicholas Butch, M. B. Stone, A. I. Kolesniko, Guangyong Xu, D. R. Yahne, K. A. Ross, C. A. Marjerrison, J. D. Garrett, G. M. Luke, A. D. Bianchi, B. D. Gaulin
Neutron scattering measurements on the pyrochlore magnet Ce 2Zr 2O 7 reveal an unusual crystal field splitting of its lowest J=5/2 multiplet, such that its ground state doublet is composed of m j= ± 3/2, giving these doublets a dipole - octupole (DO)

New Insights into Water Dynamics of Portland Cement Paste with Nano-Additives using Quasielastic Neutron Scattering

March 1, 2019
Author(s)
Kunal Kupwade-Patil, Ali Bumajdad, Craig Brown, Madhu Sudan Tyagi, Nicholas Butch, Abdullah F. Jamsheer, Oral Buyukozturk
Early age hydration kinetics of Portland cement with nano additives such as nano-silica (NS) was examined using quasielastic neutron scattering (QENS). Cement pastes with different ratios of Portland cement to NS was prepared. The concentration of the NS