Publications (68)
Hall-effect evolution across a heavy-fermion quantum critical point
S. Paschen, T. Luhmann, S. Wirth +6
A quantum critical point (QCP) develops in a material at absolute zero when a new form of order smoothly emerges in its ground state. QCPs are of great current interest because of…
Lifshitz transitions and quasiparticle de-renormalization in YbRhSi
H. R. Naren, S. Friedemann, G. Zwicknagl +4
We study the effect of magnetic fields up to 15 T on the heavy fermion state of YbRhSi via Hall effect and magnetoresistance measurements down to 50 mK. Our data show anoma…
Nature of magnetic order in YbInNi4
T. Willers, N. Hollmann, S. Wirth +4
We have measured field and temperature dependent magnetization of YbInNi4 to elucidate the nature of the magnetic transition at 3 K. For small fields we find magnetic order as prev…
Comparison of Isoscalar Vector Meson Production Cross Sections in Proton-Proton Collisions
TOF collaboration, M. Abdel-Bary, S. Abdel-Samad +37
The reaction was investigated with the TOF spectrometer, which is an external experiment at the accelerator COSY (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany). Total as we…
CeCuSi and YbRhSi: Strange Cases of Heavy-Fermion Superconductivity
Z. Y. Shan, M. Smidman, O. Stockert +6
The heavy-fermion superconductor CeCuSi exhibits two-band, -wave superconductivity with a finite energy gap over the whole Fermi surface around the magnetic instabil…
Routes to heavy-fermion superconductivity
F. Steglich, O. Stockert, S. Wirth +4
Superconductivity in lanthanide- and actinide-based heavy-fermion metals can have different microscopic origins. Among others, Cooper pair formation based on fluctuations of the va…
Pressure-induced ferromagnetism due to an anisotropic electronic topological transition in Fe1.08Te
K. Mydeen, D. Kasinathan, C. Koz +8
A rapid and anisotropic modification of the Fermi-surface shape can be associated with abrupt changes in crystalline lattice geometry or in the magnetic state of a material. In thi…
Correlation between the phase diagram and the crystal-field wave functions of CeRh(1-x)Ir(x)In5
T. Willers, F. Strigari, Z. Hu +9
The 4f crystal-electric field ground state wave functions of CeRh(1-x)Ir(x)In5 have been determined by linear polarization dependent soft x-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) at T =…
Surface and electronic structure at atomic length scales of the non-symmorphic antiferromagnet EuInSb
M. Victoria Ale Crivillero, Sahana RöÃler, Priscila F. S. Rosa +3
We performed Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Spectroscopy (STM/STS) measurements to investigate the Zintl phase EuInSb, a non-symmorphic antiferromagnet. The theoreti…
Hybridization gap and Fano resonance in SmB
S. RöÃler, Tae-Hwan Jang, D. J. Kim +4
We present results of Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Spectroscopy (STS) measurements on the "Kondo insulator" SmB. The vast majority of surface areas investigated was recons…
Photoemission and x-ray absorption spectroscopy study of electron-doped colossal magnetoresistance manganite: La0.7Ce0.3MnO3 film
S. W. Han, J. -S. Kang, K. H. Kim +11
The electronic structure of La0.7Ce0.3MnO3 (LCeMO) thin film has been investigated using photoemission spectroscopy (PES) and x-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS). The Ce 3d core-le…
Tuning the topological character of half-Heusler systems: A comparative study on YBi ( = Pd, Pt)
J. C. Souza, M. V. Ale Crivillero, H. Dawczak-DÄbicki +3
Half-Heusler systems host a plethora of different ground states, especially with non-trivial topology. However, there is still a lack of spectroscopic insight into the correspondin…
Polaronic state and nanometer-scale phase separation in colossal magnetoresistive manganites
Sahana Roessler, S. Ernst, B. Padmanabhan +4
High resolution topographic images obtained by scanning tunneling microscope in the insulating state of Pr0.68Pb0.32MnO3 single crystals showed regular stripe-like or zigzag patter…
Total Cross Section of the Reaction pp \to pK^+ÎClose to Threshold
J. T. Balewski, A. Budzanowski, H. Dombrowski +31
The energy dependence of the total cross section for the pp \to pK^+Îreaction was measured in the threshold region covering the excess energy range up to 7MeV. Existing model calc…
The planar triangular magnet AgCrSe: magnetic frustration, short range correlations, and field tuned anisotropic cycloidal magnetic order
M. Baenitz, M. M. Piva, S. Luther +25
Our studies evidence an anisotropic magnetic order below ~K. Susceptibility data in small fields of about 1~T reveal an antiferromagnetic (AFM) order for , whe…
Comment on "Zeeman-Driven Lifshitz Transition: A Model for the Experimentally Observed Fermi-Surface Reconstruction in YbRh2Si2"
S. Friedemann, S. Paschen, C. Geibel +5
In Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 137002 (2011), A. Hackl and M. Vojta have proposed to explain the quantum critical behavior of YbRh2Si2 in terms of a Zeeman-induced Lifshitz transition of…
Coupling between magnetic and thermodynamic properties in RhSi ( = Dy, Ho)
H. Dawczak-DÄbicki, Kristin Kliemt, M. Victoria Ale Crivillero +4
Single crystals of DyRhSi and HoRhSi were investigated by thermal expansion and magnetostriction. The different types of magnetic order can clearly be seen in these…
Nuclear-order-induced quantum criticality and heavy-fermion superconductivity at ultra-low temperatures in YbRhSi
Erwin Schuberth, S. Wirth, F. Steglich
The tetragonal heavy-fermion metal YbRhSi orders antiferromagnetically at mK and exhibits an unconventional quantum critical point (QCP) of Kondo-destroyin…
Direct observation of electron doping in La0.7Ce0.3MnO3 using x-ray absorption spectroscopy
C. Mitra, Z. Hu, P. Raychaudhuri +6
We report on a X-ray absorption spectroscopic (XAS) study on a thin film of La0.7Ce0.3MnO3, a manganite which was previously only speculated to be an electron doped system. The mea…
Comparative Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Study on Hexaborides
S. Wirth, Sahana RöÃler, Lin Jiao +3
We compare STM investigations on two hexaboride compounds, SmB and EuB, in an effort to provide a comprehensive picture of their surface structural properties. The latter i…
Thermal and Electrical Transport across a Magnetic Quantum Critical Point
H. Pfau, S. Hartmann, U. Stockert +11
A quantum critical point (QCP) arises at a continuous transition between competing phases at zero temperature. Collective excitations at magnetic QCPs give rise to metallic propert…
The inherently absent 2-dimensional electron gas in ultra-pure GaN/AlGaN heterostructures
S. Schmult, S. Wirth, V. V. Solovyev +5
Gallium nitride (GaN) has emerged as an essential semiconductor material for energy-efficient lighting and electronic applications owing to its large direct bandgap of 3.4 eV. Pres…
Single-Pion Production in pp Collisions at =.95 GeV/c (I)
S Abd El-Samad, R. Bilger, K. -Th. Brinkmann +41
The single-pion production reactions , and were measured at a beam momentum of 0.95 GeV/c ( 400 MeV) using the short version…
Single-Pion Production in pp Collisions at 0.95 GeV/c (II)
S. Abd El-Samad, R. Bilger, K. Th. Brinkmann +41
The single-pion production reactions , and were measured at a beam momentum of 0.95 GeV/c ( 400 MeV) using the short version…
Magnetism and superconductivity driven by identical 4 states in a heavy-fermion metal
Sunil Nair, O. Stockert, U. Witte +8
The apparently inimical relationship between magnetism and superconductivity has come under increasing scrutiny in a wide range of material classes, where the free energy landscape…
Surface excitations relaxation in the Kondo insulator SmGdB
J. C. Souza, M. König, M. V. Ale Crivillero +7
The interplay between non-trivial topological states of matter and strong electronic correlations is one of the most compelling open questions in condensed matter physics. Due to e…
On the Production of Pairs in pp Collisions at 0.8 GeV
S. Abd El-Samad, R. Bilger, K. -Th. Brinkmann +39
Data accumulated recently for the exclusive measurement of the reaction at a beam energy of 0.793 GeV using the COSY-TOF spectrometer have been analyzed with res…
High spin polarization in the ferromagnetic filled skutterudites KFe4Sb12 and NaFe4Sb12
Goutam Sheet, H. Rosner, S. Wirth +6
The spin polarization of ferromagnetic alkali-metal iron antimonides KFe4Sb12 and NaFe4Sb12 is studied by point-contact Andreev reflection using superconducting Nb and Pb tips. Fro…
Production of Lambda and Sigma^0 hyperons in proton-proton collisions
TOF Collaboration, M. Abdel-Bary, S. Abdel-Samad +62
This paper reports results on simultaneous measurements of the reaction channels pp -> pK+Îand pp -> pK+Σ^0 at excess energies of 204, 239, and 284 MeV (Î) and 127, 162, and 207…
The precursor state to superconductivity in CeIrIn: Unusual scaling of magnetotransport
Sunil Nair, M. Nicklas, F. Steglich +4
We present an analysis of the normal-state Hall effect and magnetoresistance in the heavy fermion superconductor CeIrIn. It is demonstrated that the modified Kohler's scaling…
Interplay between unconventional superconductivity and heavy-fermion quantum criticality: CeCuSi versus YbRhSi
M. Smidman, O. Stockert, J. Arndt +25
In this paper the low-temperature properties of two isostructural canonical heavy-fermion compounds are contrasted with regards to the interplay between antiferromagnetic (AF) quan…
Pressure-induced phase transitions and high-pressure tetragonal phase of Fe1.08Te
C. Koz, S. RöÃler, A. A. Tsirlin +6
We report the effects of hydrostatic pressure on the temperature-induced phase transitions in Fe1.08Te in the pressure range 0-3 GPa using synchrotron powder x-ray diffraction (XRD…
Surface and electronic structure of SmB through Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
S. Roessler, Lin Jiao, D. -J. Kim +6
SmB, a so called Kondo insulator, is recently discussed as a candidate material for a strong topological insulator. We present detailed atomically resolved topographic informat…
Phase stability in SmB
M. Victoria Ale Crivillero, Sahana RöÃler, H. Borrmann +4
We investigate flux-grown Sm-deficient SmB () by global and local tools, including X-ray diffraction (XRD), electronic transport, and scanning tunneling microscopy (…
Revisiting the Possible 4f7 5d1 Ground State of Gd Impurities in SmB6 by Electron Spin Resonance
J. C. Souza, P. F. S. Rosa, U. Burkhardt +5
The search for topological states in strongly correlated electron systems has renewed the interest in the Kondo insulator SmB6. One of the most intriguing previous results was an a…
Interplay between Kondo suppression and Lifshitz transitions in YbRhSi at high magnetic fields
H. Pfau, R. Daou, S. Lausberg +11
We investigate the magnetic field dependent thermopower, thermal conductivity, resistivity and Hall effect in the heavy fermion metal YbRh2Si2. In contrast to reports on thermodyna…
Thermal conductivity of Barium Bismuthate at low temperatures
A. Henriques, D. M. N. Oliveira, M. Baksi +6
The perovskite BaBiO crystallizes in a cubic structure and undergoes structural transitions toward lower symmetry phases upon cooling. The two low-temperature monoclinic phases…
Thermodynamic evidence for polaron stabilization inside the antiferromagnetic order of EuInSb
H. Dawczak-DÄbicki, M. Victoria Ale Crivillero, M. S. Cook +6
Materials exhibiting electronic inhomogeneities at the nanometer scale have enormous potential for applications. Magnetic polarons are one such type of inhomogeneity which link the…
An STM perspective on hexaborides: Surface states of the Kondo insulator SmB
S. Wirth, P. Schlottmann
Compounds within the hexaboride class of materials exhibit a wide variety of interesting physical phenomena, including polaron formation and quadrupolar order. In particular, SmB$_…
Hall effect in heavy-fermion metals
Sunil Nair, S. Wirth, S. Friedemann +3
The heavy fermion systems present a unique platform in which strong electronic correlations give rise to a host of novel, and often competing, electronic and magnetic ground states…
Systematic manipulation of the surface conductivity of SmB
M. Victoria Ale Crivillero, M. König, J. C. Souza +5
We show that the resistivity plateau of SmB at low temperature, typically taken as a hallmark of its conducting surface state, can systematically be influenced by different sur…
Magnetic and electronic properties of EuInSb
M. Victoria Ale Crivillero, Sahana RöÃler, S. Granovsky +5
The intermetallic compound EuInSb, an antiferromagnetic material with nonsymmorphic crystalline structure, is investigated by magnetic, electronic transport and specifi…
Two-Pion Production in Proton-Proton Collisions with Polarized Beam
S. Abd El-Bary, S. Abd El-Samad, R. Bilger +46
The two-pion production reaction was measured with a polarized proton beam at 750 and 800 MeV using the short version of the COSY-TOF spectro…
Measurement of the cross section at beam momenta in the regions of 1.45 and 1.7 GeV/c
P. D. Barnes, B. Bunker, H. Dennert +26
The PS185 experiment at LEAR/CERN has investigated strangeness production in antiproton-proton collisions with final states such as , , $\ove…
Valence state of Sm in single crystalline EuO thin films
A. Reisner, D. Kasinathan, S. Wirth +2
Samarium has two stable valence states, 2+ and 3+, which coexist in many compounds forming spatially homogeneous intermediate valence states. We study the valence state of samarium…
Kondo Destruction in Heavy Fermion Quantum Criticality and the Photoemission Spectrum of YbRhSi
S. Paschen, S. Friedemann, S. Wirth +3
Heavy fermion metals provide a prototype setting to study quantum criticality. Experimentally, quantum critical points have been identified and studied in a growing list of heavy f…
Interplay of structure, magnetism, and superconductivity in Se substituted iron telluride with excess Fe
Dona Cherian, S. RöÃler, S. Wirth +1
We investigated the evolution of the temperature-composition phase diagram of FeTe upon Se substitution. In particular, the effect of Se substitution on the two-step, coupl…
Hall cross size scaling and its application to measurements on nanometer-size iron particle arrays
S. Wirth, S. von Molnar
Hall crosses were used to measure the magnetic properties of arrays of ferromagnetic, nanometer-scale iron particles. The arrays typically consist of several hundred particles of 9…
Magnetotransport in the CeIrIn system: The influence of antiferromagnetic fluctuations
Sunil Nair, M. Nicklas, J. L. Sarrao +3
We present an overview of magnetotransport measurements on the heavy-fermion superconductor CeIrIn. Sensitive measurements of the Hall effect and magnetoresistance (MR) are use…
Observation of Landau quantization and standing waves in HfSiS
L. Jiao, Q. N. Xu, Y. P. Qi +4
Recently, HfSiS was found to be a new type of Dirac semimetal with a line of Dirac nodes in the band structure. Meanwhile, Rashba-split surface states are also pronounced in this c…
High-Resolution Capacitance Dilatometry of Microscopically Thin Samples Using a Miniature Dilatometer
R. Küchler, S. Panja, S. Wirth +1
We present a novel application of our high-resolution capacitance dilatometer, specifically engineered for the precise characterization of quantum materials. These materials, which…
A precursor state to unconventional superconductivity in CeIrIn
Sunil Nair, S. Wirth, M. Nicklas +4
We present sensitive measurements of the Hall effect and magnetoresistance in CeIrIn down to temperatures of 50 mK and magnetic fields up to 15 T. The presence of a low tempe…
Evolution of ground state wave function in CeCoIn upon Cd or Sn doping
K. Chen, F. Strigari, M. Sundermann +13
We present linear polarization-dependent soft x-ray absorption spectroscopy data at the Ce edges of Cd and Sn doped CeCoIn. The 4 ground state wave functions have…
Additional energy scale in SmB at low temperature
Lin Jiao, Sahana RöÃler, D. J. Kim +4
Topological insulators give rise to exquisite electronic properties due to their spin-momentum locked Dirac-cone-like band structure. Recently, it has been suggested that the requi…
Noise Probe of the Dynamic Phase Separation in La2/3Ca1/3MnO3
B. Raquet, A. Anane, S. Wirth +2
Giant Random Telegraph Noise (RTN) in the resistance fluctuation of a macroscopic film of perovskite-type manganese oxide La2/3Ca1/3MnO3 has been observed at various temperatures r…
Influence of N*-resonances on hyperon production in the channel pp->K+ Lambda p at 2.95, 3.20 and 3.30 GeV/c beam momentum
TOF Collaboration, S. AbdEl-Samad, M. Abdel-Bary +66
Hyperon production in the threshold region was studied in the reaction pp -> K+Lp using the time-of-flight spectrometer COSY-TOF. Exclusive data, covering the full phase-space, wer…
First-order structural transition in the magnetically ordered phase of Fe1.13Te
S. RöÃler, Dona Cherian, W. Lorenz +8
Specific heat, resistivity, magnetic susceptibility, linear thermal expansion (LTE), and high-resolution synchrotron X-ray powder diffraction investigations of single crystals Fe1+…
Hall effect measurements on YbRh2Si2 and relatives in the light of electronic structure calculations
S. Friedemann, N. Oeschler, S. Wirth +7
We report experimental and theoretical investigations of the Hall effect in YbRh2Si2 and its reference compounds LuRh2Si2 and YbIr2Si2. Based on band-structure calculations we iden…
Bulk and surface electronic properties of SmB6: a hard x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy study
Y. Utsumi, D. Kasinathan, K-T. Ko +10
We have carried out bulk-sensitive hard x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (HAXPES) measurements on in-situ cleaved and ex-situ polished SmB6 single crystals. Using the multiplet-str…
Scanning Tunneling Microscopy studies on CeCoIn and CeIrIn
S. Ernst, S. Wirth, F. Steglich +3
High--quality single crystals of the heavy fermion superconductors CeCoIn and CeIrIn have been studied by means of low--temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy. Methods w…
Magnetic and electronic inhomogeneity in SmEuB
M. Victoria Ale Crivillero, Priscila F. S. Rosa, Z. Fisk +3
While SmB attracts attention as a possible topological Kondo insulator, EuB is known to host magnetic polarons that give rise to large magnetoresistive effects above its fe…
Solitonic spin-liquid state due to the violation of the Lifshitz condition in FeTe
Ph. Materne, C. Koz, U. K. RöÃler +6
A combination of phenomenological analysis and Mössbauer spectroscopy experiments on the tetragonal FeTe system indicates that the magnetic ordering transition in compound…
Disorder-driven electronic localization and phase separation in superconducting Fe1+yTe0.5Se0.5 single crystals
S. RöÃler, Dona Cherian, S. Harikrishnan +6
We have investigated the influence of Fe-excess on the electrical transport and magnetism of Fe1+yTe0.5Se0.5 (y=0.04 and 0.09) single crystals. Both compositions exhibit resistivel…
Evolution of the Kondo lattice and non-Fermi liquid excitations in a heavy-fermion metal
S. Seiro, L. Jiao, S. Kirchner +7
Strong electron correlations can give rise to extraordinary properties of metals with renormalized quasiparticles which are at the basis of Landau's Fermi liquid theory. Near a qua…
Break up of heavy fermions at an antiferromagnetic instability
S. Friedemann, S. Wirth, S. Kirchner +7
We present results of high-resolution, low-temperature measurements of the Hall coefficient, thermopower, and specific heat on stoichiometric YbRh2Si2. They support earlier conclus…
Observation of minority spin character of the new electron doped manganite La_0.7Ce_0.3MnO_3 from tunneling magnetoresistance
C. Mitra, P. Raychaudhuri, K. Doerr +4
We report the magnetotransport characteristics of a trilayer ferromagnetic tunnel junction build of an electron doped manganite (La_0.7Ce_0.3MnO_3) and a hole doped manganite (La_0…
Collins and Sivers asymmetries for pions and kaons in muon-deuteron DIS
The COMPASS Collaboration, M. Alekseev, V. Yu. Alexakhin +238
The measurements of the Collins and Sivers asymmetries of identified hadrons produced in deep-inelastic scattering of 160 GeV/c muons on a transversely polarised 6LiD target at COM…
Analysis of the normal state magnetotransport in CeIrIn
Sunil Nair, M. Nicklas, J. L. Sarrao +3
We present an analysis of the normal state magnetotransport in the heavy fermion superconductor CeIrIn. The Hall effect and the transverse magnetoresistance in this material…