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cond-mat.str-el2004

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…

cond-mat.str-el2013

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…

cond-mat.str-el2011

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…

nucl-ex2007

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…

cond-mat.supr-con2022

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…

cond-mat.supr-con2012

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…

cond-mat.supr-con2017

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…

cond-mat.str-el2014

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 =…

cond-mat.str-el2022

Surface and electronic structure at atomic length scales of the non-symmorphic antiferromagnet EuInSb

M. Victoria Ale Crivillero, Sahana Rößler, 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…

cond-mat.str-el2013

Hybridization gap and Fano resonance in SmB

S. Rößler, 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…

cond-mat.str-el2003

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…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

Tuning the topological character of half-Heusler systems: A comparative study on YBi ( = Pd, Pt)

J. C. Souza, M. V. Ale Crivillero, H. Dawczak-Dębicki +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…

cond-mat.str-el2007

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…

nucl-ex1998

Total Cross Section of the Reaction pp \to pK^+ΛClose to Threshold

J. T. Balewski, A. Budzanowski, H. Dombrowski +31

The energy dependence of the total cross section for the pp \to pK^+Λreaction was measured in the threshold region covering the excess energy range up to 7MeV. Existing model calc…

cond-mat.str-el2021

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…

cond-mat.str-el2012

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…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Coupling between magnetic and thermodynamic properties in RhSi ( = Dy, Ho)

H. Dawczak-Dębicki, 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…

cond-mat.supr-con2022

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…

cond-mat.str-el2002

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…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020

Comparative Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Study on Hexaborides

S. Wirth, Sahana Rößler, 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…

cond-mat.str-el2013

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…

cond-mat.mes-hall2018

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…

nucl-ex2006

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…

nucl-ex2009

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…

cond-mat.str-el2010

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…

cond-mat.str-el2021

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…

nucl-ex2009

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…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2005

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…

nucl-ex2010

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+Λand pp -> pK+Σ^0 at excess energies of 204, 239, and 284 MeV (Λ) and 127, 162, and 207…

cond-mat.str-el2008

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…

cond-mat.supr-con2018

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…

cond-mat.supr-con2012

Pressure-induced phase transitions and high-pressure tetragonal phase of Fe1.08Te

C. Koz, S. Rößler, 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…

cond-mat.str-el2015

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…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021

Phase stability in SmB

M. Victoria Ale Crivillero, Sahana Rößler, 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 (…

cond-mat.str-el2020

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…

cond-mat.str-el2013

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…

cond-mat.other2023

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…

cond-mat.str-el2024

Thermodynamic evidence for polaron stabilization inside the antiferromagnetic order of EuInSb

H. Dawczak-Dębicki, 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…

cond-mat.str-el2022

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$_…

cond-mat.str-el2012

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…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021

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…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

Magnetic and electronic properties of EuInSb

M. Victoria Ale Crivillero, Sahana Rößler, S. Granovsky +5

The intermetallic compound EuInSb, an antiferromagnetic material with nonsymmorphic crystalline structure, is investigated by magnetic, electronic transport and specifi…

nucl-ex2008

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…

hep-ex2001

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…

cond-mat.str-el2017

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…

cond-mat.str-el2015

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…

cond-mat.supr-con2015

Interplay of structure, magnetism, and superconductivity in Se substituted iron telluride with excess Fe

Dona Cherian, S. Rößler, 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…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci1999

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…

cond-mat.str-el2008

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…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018

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…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

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…

cond-mat.str-el2007

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…

cond-mat.str-el2018

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…

cond-mat.str-el2017

Additional energy scale in SmB at low temperature

Lin Jiao, Sahana Rößler, 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…

cond-mat.str-el2000

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…

nucl-ex2010

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…

cond-mat.supr-con2012

First-order structural transition in the magnetically ordered phase of Fe1.13Te

S. Rößler, 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+…

cond-mat.str-el2010

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…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017

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…

cond-mat.supr-con2010

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…

cond-mat.str-el2024

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…

cond-mat.supr-con2015

Solitonic spin-liquid state due to the violation of the Lifshitz condition in FeTe

Ph. Materne, C. Koz, U. K. Rößler +6

A combination of phenomenological analysis and Mössbauer spectroscopy experiments on the tetragonal FeTe system indicates that the magnetic ordering transition in compound…

cond-mat.supr-con2012

Disorder-driven electronic localization and phase separation in superconducting Fe1+yTe0.5Se0.5 single crystals

S. Rößler, 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…

cond-mat.str-el2017

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…

cond-mat.str-el2010

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…

cond-mat.str-el2002

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…

hep-ex2009

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…

cond-mat.str-el2008

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…