Publications (61)
Single crystal synthesis, structure, and magnetism of PbCu(PO)O
P. Puphal, M. Y. P. Akbar, M. Hepting +4
The recent claim of superconductivity above room temperature in PbCu(PO)O with 0.9 < < 1 (referred to as LK-99) has sparked considerable interest. To minim…
Microscopic investigation of the weakly correlated noncentrosymmetric superconductor SrAuSi
N. Barbero, P. K. Biswas, M. Isobe +6
SrAuSi is a noncentrosymmetric superconductor (NCS) with = 1.54 K, which to date has been studied only via macroscopic techniques. By combining nuclear magnetic resonance…
Resonant Raman scattering in NaV2O5 as a probe of its electronic structure
M. J. Konstantinovic, Z. V. Popovic, T. Ruf +4
In order to investigate the origin of the phase transition observed in NaVO, as well as its electronic structure, we have measured Raman intensities as a function of the la…
Formation of orbital molecules on a pyrochlore lattice induced by A-O bond covalency
A. Krajewska, A. Yaresko, J. Nuss +15
The pyrochlore ruthenate InRuO displays a subtle competition between spin-orbital entanglement and molecular orbital formation. At room temperature, a spin-orbit-entang…
Infrared phonon spectra of quasi-one-dimensional TaNiSe and TaNiS
T. I. Larkin, R. D. Dawson, M. Höppner +6
Using a combination of infrared ellipsometry, time-domain terahertz spectroscopy, and far-infrared reflectometry we have obtained the -plane complex dielectric function of mono…
Almost pure Mott state of InIrO in the limit of reduced inter-site hopping
A. Krajewska, T. Takayama, R. Dinnebier +4
The pyrochlore iridate InIrO is a strong Mott insulator with frustrated magnetism. Despite the large trigonal crystal field, a small admixture…
Robustness of basal-plane antiferromagnetic order and the state in single-layer iridate spin-orbit Mott insulators
S. Boseggia, R. Springell, H. C. Walker +6
The magnetic structure and electronic groundstate of the layered perovskite Ba2IrO4 have been investigated using x-ray resonant magnetic scattering (XRMS). Our results are compared…
Lattice vibrations of alpha'-NaV2O5
M. N. Popova, A. B. Sushkov, S. A. Golubchik +6
We have measured far infrared reflectance and transmittance spectra as well as Raman scattering spectra of α'-NaV2O5 single crystals for all the principal polarizations. The tempe…
Orbital and spin chains in ZnV2O4
S. -H. Lee, D. Louca, H. Ueda +8
Our powder inelastic neutron scattering data indicate that \zvo is a system of spin chains that are three dimensionally tangled in the cubic phase above 50 K due to randomly occupi…
Extrinsic Proton NMR Studies of Mg(OH) and Ca(OH)
Y. Itoh, M. Isobe
We studied narrow H NMR spectra of Mg(OH) and Ca(OH) powders at 100355 K and 4259 MHz using pulsed NMR techniques. The Fourier transformed NMR spectra of the prot…
Lattice vibrations of alpha'-NaV_2O_5 in the low-temperature phase. Magnetic bound states?
M. N. Popova, A. B. Sushkov, S. A. Klimin +4
We report high resolution polarized infrared studies of the quarter-filled spin ladder compound alpha'-NaV_2O_5 as a function of temperature (5K <= T <= 300K). Numerous new modes w…
Metastable ordered states induced by low temperature annealing of δ-Ag2/3V2O5
T. Kubo, K. Kojima, N. Katayama +5
In δ-Ag2/3V2O5 with charge degrees of freedom in V, it is known that the charge ordering state and physical properties of V that appear at low temperatures depend strongly on the…
Tunneling-tip-induced collapse of the charge gap in the excitonic insulator TaNiSe
Q. He, X. Que, L. Zhou +3
Tuning many-body electronic phases by an external handle is of both fundamental and practical importance in condensed matter science. The tunability mirrors the underlying interact…
Floating zone growth at high oxygen pressures in Ruddlesden-Popper bilayer nickelate YSrNiAlO
H. Yilmaz, P. Sosa-Lizama, M. Knauft +7
With the discovery of superconductivity under pressure in the Ruddlesden-Popper (RP) bilayer LaNiO and trilayer LaNiO, a new field of nick…
Pressure-induced changes in the magnetic and valence state of EuFe2As2
K. Matsubayashi, K. Munakata, N. Katayama +9
We present the results of electrical resistivity, ac specific heat, magnetic susceptibility, X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) and X-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) of the…
Charge-exchange measurements of high-energy fast ions in LHD using negative-ion neutral beam injection
W. H. J. Hayashi, W. W. Heidbrink, C. M. Muscatello +10
A new sightline geometry for the fast-ion D-alpha (FIDA) diagnostic on the Large Helical Device (LHD) has been confirmed to measure signals for high-energy fast ions produced by ne…
Low-energy excitations in NaV2O5
M. J. Konstantinovic, J. C. Irwin, M. Isobe +1
In the (ab) polarized Raman scattering spectra of NaV2O5 single crystals, measured with 647.1 nm laser line at T < Tc, we found two modes at 86, and 126 cm-1 not previously reporte…
Optical properties of NaxV2O5
M. J. Konstantinovic, Z. V. Popovic, V. V. Moshchalkov +4
The optical properties of sodium-deficient NaxV2O5 (0.85 < x <1) single crystals are analyzed in the wide energy range, from 0.012 to 4.5 eV, using ellipsometry, infrared reflectiv…
Infrared and Raman spectra of LiV2O5 single crystals
Z. V. Popovic, R. Gajic, M. J. Konstantinovic +5
The phonon dynamics of LiV2O5 single crystals is studied using infrared and Raman spectroscopy techniques. The infrared-active phonon frequencies and dielectric constants are obtai…
Raman, infrared and optical spectra of the spin-Peierls compound NaV_2O_5
S. A. Golubchik, M. Isobe, A. N. Ivlev +5
We have measured polarized spectra of Raman scattering, infrared and optical transmission of NaV_2O_5 single crystals above the temperature of the spin-Peierls transition Tsp=35 K.…
Phase formation in hole- and electron-doped rare-earth nickelate single crystals
P. Puphal, V. Sundaramurthy, V. Zimmermann +5
The recent discovery of superconductivity in hole-doped infinite-layer nickelates has triggered a great interest in the synthesis of novel nickelate phases, which have primarily be…
Raman Scattering from Magnetic Excitations in the Spin Ladder Compounds CaV2O5 and MgV2O5
M. J. Konstantinovic, Z. V. Popovic, M. Isobe +1
We present the Raman-scattering spectra of CaV2O5 and MgV2O5. The magnetic contribution in the Raman spectra of CaV2O5 is found in the form of a strong asymmetric line, centered at…
Finite Temperature Effects in One-dimensional Mott-Hubbard Insulator: Angle-Resolved Photoemission Study of Na_{0.96}V_{2}O_{5}
K. Kobayashi, T. Mizokawa, A. Fujimori +4
We have made an angle-resolved photoemission study of a one-dimensional (1D) Mott-Hubbard insulator Na_{0.96}V_{2}O_{5} and found that the spectra of the V 3d lower Hubbard band ar…
Validating the ASCOT modelling of NBI fast ions in Wendelstein 7-X stellarator
S. Ãkäslompolo, P. Drewelow, Y. Gao +37
The first fast ion experiments in Wendelstein 7-X were performed in 2018. They are one of the first steps in demonstrating the optimised fast ion confinement of the stellarator. Th…
Magnetic excitation spectra of
K. Ladavac, M. J. Konstantinovic, A. Belic +4
We present low temperature Raman spectra of single crystal. The assignation of the observed modes is done on the basis of Monte Carlo calculation of excited states of He…
Orbital occupancies and the putative jeff = 1/2 groundstate in Ba2IrO4: a combined oxygen K edge XAS and RIXS study
M. Moretti Sala, M. Rossi, S. Boseggia +9
The nature of the electronic groundstate of Ba2IrO4 has been addressed using soft X-ray absorption and inelastic scattering techniques in the vicinity of the oxygen K edge. From th…
High frequency ESR investigation on dynamical charge disproportionation and spin gap excitation in NaV_2O_5
H. Nojiri, S. Luther, M. Isobe +2
A significant frequency dependence of the ESR line width is found in NaV_2O_5 between 34-100 K and the line width increases as the resonance frequency is increased from 95 GHz to 7…
Critical behavior in NaV2O5: the case of dielectric function and the aspect of universality
S. V. Demishev, A. A. Pronin, N. E. Sluchanko +3
Temperature dependence in the interval 4.2-300 K and the critical behavior of the dielectric function along c-axis in NaV2O5 have been studied in the frequency range 1 MHz-1 GHz. T…
X-ray Anomalous Scattering Study of a Charge-Ordered State in NaV2O5
H. Nakao, K. Ohwada, N. Takesue +9
Charge ordering of V4+ and V5+ in NaV2O5 has been studied by an X-ray diffraction technique using anomalous scattering near a vanadium K-absorption edge to critically enhance a con…
Anomalous thermal conductivity of NaV2O5 as compared to conventional spin-Peierls system CuGeO3
A. N. Vasil'ev, V. V. Pryadun, D. I. Khomskii +4
A huge increase of thermal conductivity k is observed at the phase transition in stoichiometric NaV2O5. This anomaly decreases and gradually disappears with deviation from stoichio…
Intrinsic Proton NMR Studies of Mg(OH) and Ca(OH)
Y. Itoh, M. Isobe
We studied the short proton free induction decay signals and the broad ^1H NMR spectra of Mg(OH)2 and Ca(OH)2 powders at 77-355 K and 42 MHz using pulsed NMR techniques. Using a Ga…
Raman Scattering in the Inorganic Spin-Peierls System alpha'-Na_{1-delta}V_2O_5
H. Kuroe, H. Seto, J. Sasaki +3
We have studied the spin-Peierls (SP) transition in alpha'-Na_{1-delta}V_2O_5 (delta = 0, 0.01 and 0.1) by means of Raman scattering. At room temperature, we observe six A_1 and th…
New Misfit-Layered Cobalt Oxide (CaOH)1.14CoO2
M. Shizuya, M. Isobe, Y. Baba +6
We found a new cobalt oxide (CaOH)1.14CoO2 by utilizing the high-pressure technique. X-ray and electron diffraction studies revealed that the compound has layer structure which con…
Bulk Nature of Layered Perovskite Iridates beyond the Mott Scenario : An Approach from Bulk Sensitive Photoemission Study
A. Yamasaki, S. Tachibana, H. Fujiwara +24
We present genuine bulk Ir 5d jeff states of layered perovskite iridates obtained by hard-x-ray photoemission spectroscopy (HAXPES) with s- and p-polarized lights. HAXPES spectra o…
Magnetic Susceptibilities of Spin-1/2 Antiferromagnetic Heisenberg Ladders and Applications to Ladder Oxide Compounds
D. C. Johnston, M. Troyer, S. Miyahara +11
A comprehensive theoretical and experimental study is presented of the magnetic susceptibility versus temperature Ï(T) of spin S = 1/2 two- and three-leg Heisenberg ladders and la…
Magnetic pyroxenes LiCrGe2O6 and LiCrSi2O6: dimensionality crossover in a non-frustrated S=3/2 Heisenberg model
O. Janson, G. Nénert, M. Isobe +4
The magnetism of magnetoelectric = 3/2 pyroxenes LiCrSiO and LiCrGeO is studied by density functional theory (DFT) calculations, quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) simul…
Multiorbital character of the density wave in trilayer nickelate superconductors
A. Suthar, V. Sundaramurthy, M. Bejas +15
Ruddlesden-Popper nickelates exhibit high-temperature superconductivity closely intertwined with charge and spin density waves. However, fundamental questions persist regarding the…
Magnetic ground state of the dimer-based hexagonal perovskite BaZnRuO
S. Hayashida, H. Gretarsson, P. Puphal +7
We investigate the magnetic ground state of single crystals of the ruthenium-dimer-based hexagonal perovskite BaZnRuO using magnetic susceptibility and resonant i…
Observation of Spin Freezing in CaV4O9 and CaV2O5 by uSR
G. M. Luke, Y. Fudamoto, K. M. Kojima +10
We have performed muon spin relaxation and susceptibility measurements of CaV_4O_9 and CaV_2O_5, systems in which spin gap-like behavior has been found. We observe spin freezing in…
Raman scattering study of charge ordering in beta-Ca0.33V2O5
Z. V. Popovic, M. J. Konstantinovic, V. V. Moshchalkov +2
Polarized Raman spectra of the calcium vanadium oxide bronze beta-Ca0.33V2O5 are measured in the temperature range between 300 K and 20 K. The charge ordering phase transition at a…
The electronic structure of the high-symmetry perovskite iridate Ba2IrO4
S. Moser, L. Moreschini, A. Ebrahimi +11
We report angle-resolved photoemission (ARPES) measurements, density functional and model tight-binding calculations on BaIrO (Ba-214), an antiferromagnetic ( K) i…
High frequency dielectric and magnetic anomaly at the phase transition in NaV2O5
A. I. Smirnov, M. N. Popova, A. B. Sushkov +6
We found anomalies in the temperature dependence of the dielectric and the magnetic susceptibiliy of NaV_2O_5 in the microwave and far infrared frequency ranges. The anomalies occu…
Peierls Mechanism of the Metal-Insulator Transition in Ferromagnetic Hollandite K2Cr8O16
T. Toriyama, A. Nakao, Y. Yamaki +10
Synchrotron X-ray diffraction experiment shows that the metal-insulator transition occurring in a ferromagnetic state of a hollandite KCrO is accompanied by a struct…
Fluxiod jumps coupled high critical current density of nano-Co3O4 doped MgB2
V. P. S. Awana, M. Isobe, K. P. Singh +3
Polycrystalline MgB2 samples with 0, 2, 4 and 6 percent added nano-Co3O4 being synthesized by vacuum (10-5 Torr) annealing at 750 0C for three hours each are found to be nearly sin…
Charge-ordering and optical transitions of LiV2O5 and NaV2O5
M. J. Konstantinovic, J. Dong, M. E. Ziaei +5
We present the measurements of the polarized optical spectra of NaV2O5 and LiV2O5. In an energy range from 0.5 to 5.5 eV we observe similar peaks in the E parallel a spectra of LiV…
High temperature transitions in Ruddlesden-Popper nickelates LaNiO
P. Reiss, A. Shevchenko, P. S. Lizama +9
The discovery of superconductivity at in the infinite-layer nickelate , followed by superconductivity at …
The "devil's staircase" type phase transition in NaV2O5 under high pressure
K. Ohwada, Y. Fujii, N. Takesue +12
The "devil's staircase" type phase transition in the quarter-filled spin-ladder compound NaV2O5 has been discovered at low temperature and high pressure by synchrotron radiation x-…
Condensation of a tetrahedra rigid-body libration mode in HoBaCo4O7 : the origin of phase transition at 355 K
A. I. Rykov, Y. Ueda, M. Isobe +6
Rietveld profiles, Moessbauer spectra and x-ray absorption fine structure (XAFS) were analyzed through the structural phase transition at Ts = 355 K in HoBaCo4O7. Excess of the oxy…
Magnetic correlations in infinite-layer nickelates: an experimental and theoretical multi-method study
R. A. Ortiz, P. Puphal, M. Klett +12
We report a comprehensive study of magnetic correlations in LaNiO, a parent compound of the recently discovered family of infinite-layer (IL) nickelate superconductors, using…
CaCrO3: an anomalous antiferromagnetic metallic oxide
A. C. Komarek, S. V. Streltsov, M. Isobe +13
Combining infrared reflectivity, transport, susceptibility and several diffraction techniques, we find compelling evidence that CaCrO3 is a rare case of a metallic and antiferromag…
Investigation of spin excitations and charge order in bulk crystals of the infinite-layer nickelate LaNiO
S. Hayashida, V. Sundaramurthy, P. Puphal +10
Recent x-ray spectroscopic studies have revealed spin excitations and charge density waves in thin films of infinite-layer (IL) nickelates. However, clarifying whether the origin o…
Partially disordered state and spin-lattice coupling in an S=3/2 triangular lattice antiferromagnet Ag2CrO2
M. Matsuda, H. Yoshida, M. Isobe +2
Ag2CrO2 is an S=3/2 frustrated triangular lattice antiferromagnet without orbital degree of freedom. With decreasing temperature, a 4-sublatice spin state develops. However, a long…
Investigation of thermal and magnetic properties of defects in a spin-gap compound NaV2O5
A. I. Smirnov, S. S. Sosin, R. Calemczuk +4
The specific heat, magnetic susceptibility and ESR signals of a Na-deficient vanadate Na_xV_2O_5 (x=1.00 - 0.90) were studied in the temperature range 0.07 - 10 K, well below the t…
Electronic structure of an antiferromagnetic metal: CaCrO3
P. A. Bhobe, A. Chainani, M. Taguchi +11
We report on the electronic structure of the perovskite oxide CaCrO3 using valence-band, core-level, and Cr 2p - 3d resonant photoemission spectroscopy (PES). Despite its antiferro…
Optical phonons in new ordered perovskite Sr2Cu(Re0.69Ca0.31) Oy system observed by infrared reflectance spectroscopy
J. Ahmad, M. Shizuya, M. Isobe +2
We report infrared reflectivity spectra for a new correlated cupric oxide system Sr2Cu(Re0.69Ca0.31)Oy with y ~ 0.6 at several temperatures ranging between 8 and 380 K. The reflect…
Physical property characterization of Fe-tube encapsulated and vacuum annealed bulk MgB2
V. P. S. Awana, Rajeev Rawat, Anurag Gupta +6
We report phase formation, and detailed study of magnetization and resistivity under magnetic field of MgB2 polycrystalline bulk samples prepared by Fe-tube encapsulated and vacuum…
Appearance of new lines and change in line shape in the IR spectrum of a NaV_2O_5 single crystal at the spin-Peierls transition
M. N. Popova, A. B. Sushkov, A. N. Vasil'ev +2
We report the first observation of new lines in the infrared spectrum of a crystal due to unit-cell doubling at the spin-Peierls transition (in NaV_2O_5). The change in the shape o…
Charge-ordering phase transition and order-disorder effects in the Raman spectra of NaV2O5
M. J. Konstantinovic, M. Isobe, Y. Ueda
In the ac polarized Raman spectra of NaV2O5 we have found anomalous phonon broadening, and an energy shift of the low-frequency mode as a function of the temperature. These effects…
First evidence for charge ordering in NaVO from Raman spectroscopy
M. J. Konstantinovic, Z. V. Popovic, A. N. Vasil'ev +2
We argue on the basis of symmetry selection rules and Raman scattering spectra that NaVO undergoes a charge ordering phase transition at T=34 K. Such a transition is ch…
Muon-spin relaxation measurements on the dimerized spin-1/2 chains NaTiSi2O6 and TiOCl
P. J. Baker, S. J. Blundell, F. L. Pratt +10
We report muon spin relaxation (muSR) and magnetic susceptibility investigations of two Ti3+ chain compounds which each exhibit a spin gap at low temperature, NaTiSi2O6 and TiOCl.…
Orbital Dimerization and Dynamic Jahn-Teller Effect in NaTiSiO
M. J. KonstantinoviÄ, J. van den Brink, Z. V. PopoviÄ +3
We study with the Raman scattering technique two types of phase transitions in the pyroxene compounds NaMSiO (with M=Ti, V, and Cr). In the quasi one-dimensional S=1/2 syst…