Publications (23)
Large Negative Quantum Renormalization of Excitation Energies in the Spin-1/2 Kagome Lattice Antiferromagnet CsCuSnF
T. Ono, K. Matan, Y. Nambu +4
Magnetic excitations in the spin- distorted kagome lattice antiferromagnet CsCuSnF, which has an ordered ground state owing to the strong Dzyaloshinskii…
Nonreciprocal magnons and symmetry-breaking in the noncentrosymmetric antiferromagnet
G. Gitgeatpong, Y. Zhao, P. Piyawongwatthana +5
Magnons, the spin-wave quanta, are disturbances that embody a wave propagating through a background medium formed by ordered magnetic moments. In an isotropic Heisenberg system, th…
Doping Dependence of Spin Dynamics in Electron-Doped Ba(Fe1-xCox)2As2
K. Matan, S. Ibuka, R. Morinaga +5
The spin dynamics in single crystal, electron-doped Ba(Fe1-xCox)2As2 has been investigated by inelastic neutron scattering over the full range from undoped to the overdoped regime.…
Ghost modes and continuum scattering in the dimerized distorted kagome lattice antiferromagnet RbCuSnF
K. Matan, Y. Nambu, Y. Zhao +7
High intensity pulsed neutron scattering reveals a new set of magnetic excitations in the pinwheel valence bond solid state of the distorted kagome lattice antiferromagnet RbCu…
Pinwheel VBS state and triplet excitations in the two-dimensional deformed kagome lattice
K. Matan, T. Ono, Y. Fukumoto +5
Determining ground states of correlated electron systems is fundamental to understanding novel phenomena in condensed matter physics. A difficulty, however, arises in a geometrical…
Spin waves in the Frustrated Kagome Lattice Antiferromagnet KFe3(OH)6(SO4)2
K. Matan, D. Grohol, D. G. Nocera +5
The spin wave excitations of the ideal S=5/2 Kagome lattice antiferromagnet KFe3(OH)6(SO4)2 have been measured using high-resolution inelastic neutron scattering. We directly obser…
Spin Dynamics of the Spin-1/2 Kagome Lattice Antiferromagnet ZnCu_3(OH)_6Cl_2
J. S. Helton, K. Matan, M. P. Shores +9
We have performed thermodynamic and neutron scattering measurements on the S=1/2 kagome lattice antiferromagnet Zn Cu_3 (OH)_6 Cl_2. The susceptibility indicates a Curie-Weiss temp…
Spin chirality on a two-dimensional frustrated lattice
D. Grohol, K. Matan, J. H. Cho +4
The collective behavior of interacting magnetic moments can be strongly influenced by the topology of the underlying lattice. In geometrically frustrated spin systems, interesting…
Sodium layer chiral distribution and spin structure of NaNiTeO with a honeycomb network
Sunil K. Karna, Y. Zhao, R. Sankar +7
The nature of Na ion distribution, diffusion path, and the spin structure of -type NaNiTeO with a Ni honeycomb network has been explored. The nuclear density distri…
Thermodynamic and Transport Measurements on Superconducting Na_xCoO_2 + yH_2O Single Crystals Prepared by Electrochemical De-intercalation
F. C. Chou, J. H. Cho, Patrick A. Lee +3
Superconducting single crystal samples of Na_xCoO_2 + yH_2O have been produced using an electrochemical technique which dispenses with the usual bromine chemical de-intercalation s…
Anisotropic itinerant magnetism and spin fluctuations in BaFe2As2: A neutron scattering study
K. Matan, R. Morinaga, K. Iida +1
Neutron scattering measurements were performed to investigate magnetic excitations in a single-crystal sample of the ternary iron arsenide BaFe2As2, a parent compound of a recently…
Polarized neutron scattering studies of the kagome lattice antiferromagnet KFe3(OH)6(SO4)2
K. Matan, J. S. Helton, D. Grohol +4
We report polarized neutron scattering studies of spin-wave excitations and spin fluctuations in the S=5/2 kagome lattice antiferromagnet KFe3(OH)6(SO4)2 (jarosite). Inelastic pola…
Spin Seebeck effect in a polar antiferromagnet -CuVO
Y. Shiomi, R. Takashima, D. Okuyama +5
We have studied the longitudinal spin Seebeck effect in a polar antiferromagnet -CuVO in contact with a Pt film. Below the antiferromagnetic transition temper…
Magnetic structure and spin dynamics of the quasi-2D antiferromagnet Zn-doped copper pyrovanadate
G. Gitgeatpong, Y. Zhao, J. A. Fernandez-Baca +6
Magnetic properties of the antiferromagnet ZnCuVO (ZnCVO) have been thoroughly investigated on powder and single-crystal samples. The crystal structure de…
High-field magnetization and magnetic phase diagram of -CuVO
G. Gitgeatpong, M. Suewattana, Shiwei Zhang +7
High-field magnetization of the spin- antiferromagnet -CuVO was measured in pulsed magnetic fields of up to 56 T in order to study its magnetic phase diagram.…
Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction and spin re-orientation transition in the frustrated kagome lattice antiferromagnet
K. Matan, B. M. Bartlett, J. S. Helton +10
Magnetization, specific heat, and neutron scattering measurements were performed to study a magnetic transition in jarosite, a spin-5/2 kagome lattice antiferromagnet. When a magne…
Magnetic structure and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in the helical-honeycomb antiferromagnet -CuVO
G. Gitgeatpong, Y. Zhao, M. Avdeev +3
Magnetic properties of the antiferromagnet -CuVO have been studied using magnetization, Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) simulations, and neutron diffracti…
Dynamic Scaling in the Susceptibility of the Spin-1\2 Kagome Lattice Antiferromagnet Herbertsmithite
J. S. Helton, K. Matan, M. P. Shores +5
The spin-1/2 kagome lattice antiferromagnet herbertsmithite, ZnCu(OH)Cl, is a candidate material for a quantum spin liquid ground state. We show that the magnetic…
Magnetic structure and high-field magnetization of the distorted kagome lattice antiferromagnet CsCuSnF
K. Matan, T. Ono, G. Gitgeatpong +12
High-resolution time-of-flight powder neutron diffraction and high-field magnetization were measured to investigate the magnetic structure and existence of a field-induced magnetic…
Breakdown of Linear Spin-wave Theory and Existence of Spinon Bound States in the Frustrated Kagome Lattice Antiferromagnet
K. Matan, T. Ono, S. Ohira-Kawamura +3
Spin dynamics of the spin-1/2 kagome lattice antiferromagnet CsCuSnF was studied using high-resolution, time-of-flight inelastic neutron scattering. The flat mode, a…
Magnetic properties and magnetic structure of the frustrated quasi-one-dimensional antiferromagnet SrCuTeO
P. Saeaun, Y. Zhao, P. Piyawongwatthana +5
Magnetization measurements on single-crystal cubic SrCuTeO with an applied magnetic field of along three inequivalent high symmetry directions , , and …
Coupled dimerized alternating-bond quantum spin chains in the distorted honeycomb-lattice magnet CuSbO
C. Piyakulworawat, K. Morita, Y. Fukumoto +9
We analyze powder-averaged inelastic neutron scattering and magnetization data for the distorted honeycomb compound CuSbO using a first-order dimer expansion calculation an…
X-ray Scattering Study of the spin-Peierls transition and soft phonon behavior in TiOCl
E. T. Abel, K. Matan, F. C. Chou +5
We have studied the S=1/2 quasi-one-dimensional antiferromagnet TiOCl using single crystal x-ray diffraction and inelastic x-ray scattering techniques. The Ti ions form staggered s…