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cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 64 cited

The Chiral Anomaly and Ultrahigh Mobility in Crystalline HfTe5

Huichao Wang, Chao-Kai Li, Haiwen Liu +11

HfTe5 is predicted to be a promising platform for studying topological phases. Here through an electrical transport study, we present the first observation of chiral anomaly and ul…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 18 cited

Structural evolution of epitaxial SrCoOx films near topotactic phase transition

Hyoungjeen Jeen, Ho Nyung Lee

Control of oxygen stoichiometry in complex oxides via topotactic phase transition is an interesting avenue to not only modifying the physical properties, but utilizing in many ener…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 49 cited

The statistical physics of multi-component alloys using KKR-CPA

Suffian N. Khan, J. B. Staunton, G. M. Stocks

We apply variational principles from statistical physics and the Landau theory of phase transitions to multicomponent alloys using the multiple-scattering theory of Korringa-Kohn-R…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 22 cited

Electron-phonon coupling and thermal transport in the thermoelectric compound

Dipanshu Bansal, Chen W. Li, Ayman H. Said +3

Phonon properties of (), a potential high-temperature thermoelectric material, have been studied with inelastic neutron and x-ray scatteri…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 26 cited

Symmetry-driven atomic rearrangement at a brownmillerite-perovskite interface

Tricia L. Meyer, Hyoungjeen Jeen, Xiang Gao +3

Many of the recent advancements in oxide heterostructures have been attributed to modification of spin, charge, lattice, and orbital order parameters at atomically well-defined int…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 14 cited

Spin-Phonon Coupling and High Pressure Phase Transitions of RMnO3 (R= Ca and Pr): An Inelastic Neutron Scattering and First Principle Studies

S. K. Mishra, M. K. Gupta, R. Mittal +2

We report inelastic neutron scattering measurements over 7-1251 K in CaMnO3 covering various phase transitions, and over 6-150 K in PrMnO3 covering the magnetic transition. The exc…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 26 cited

Equilibrium, Metastability, and Hysteresis in a Model Spin-crossover Material with Nearest-neighbor Antiferromagnetic-like and Long-range Ferromagnetic-like Interactions

P. A. Rikvold, G. Brown, S. Miyashita +2

Phase diagrams and hysteresis loops were obtained by Monte Carlo simulations and a mean-field method for a simplified model of a spin-crossover material with a two-step transition…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 13 cited

Conducting interfaces between amorphous oxide layers and SrTiO3(110) and SrTiO3(111)

Mateusz Scigaj, Jaume Gazquez, Maria Varela +3

Interfaces between (110) and (111)SrTiO3 (STO) single crystalline substrates and amorphous oxide layers, LaAlO3 (a-LAO), Y:ZrO2 (a-YSZ), and SrTiO3 (a-STO) become conducting above…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 6 cited

Surface Chemical Reactivity of Ultrathin Pd(111) Films on Ru(0001): Importance of Orbital Symmetry in the Application of the d-Band Model

Xiangshi Yin, Valentino R. Cooper, Hanno H. Weitering +1

The chemical bonding of adsorbate molecules on transition-metal surfaces is strongly influenced by the hybridization between the molecular orbitals and the metal d-band. The streng…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 4 cited

Phonon coupling to dynamic short-range polar order in a relaxor ferroelectric near the morphotropic phase boundary

John A. Schneeloch, Zhijun Xu, B. Winn +4

We report neutron inelastic scattering experiments on single crystal PbMgNbO doped with 32\% PbTiO, a relaxor ferroelectric that lies close to the morph…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 5 cited

Magnetic excitations from an S=1/2 diamond-shaped tetramer compound Cu2PO4OH

M. Matsuda, S. E. Dissanayake, D. L. Abernathy +2

Inelastic neutron scattering experiments have been carried out on a powder sample of Cu2PO4OH, which consists of diamond-shaped tetramer spin units with S=1/2. We have observed two…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 33 cited

Thermal generation of spin current in epitaxial CoFe2O4 thin films

Er-Jia Guo, Andreas Herklotz, Andreas Kehlberger +3

The longitudinal spin Seebeck effect (LSSE) has been investigated in high-quality epitaxial CoFe2O4 (CFO) thin films. The thermally excited spin currents in the CFO films are elect…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015

Magnetic and structural properties of ferromagnetic Fe5PB2 and Fe5SiB2 and effects of Co and Mn substitutions

Michael A. McGuire, David S. Parker

Crystallographic and magnetic properties of Fe5PB2, Fe4CoPB2, Fe4MnPB2, Fe5SiB2, Fe4CoSiB2, and Fe4MnSiB2 are reported. All adopt the tetragonal Cr5B3 structure-type and are ferrom…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015

Direct Experimental Evidence for Differing Reactivity Alterations of Minerals following Irradiation: The Case of Calcite and Quartz

Isabella Pignatelli, Aditya Kumar, Kevin G. Field +5

Concrete, a mixture formed by mixing cement, water, and fine and coarse mineral aggregates is used in the construction of nuclear power plants (NPPs), e.g., to construct the reacto…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 19 cited

Interfacial Magnetism in Complex Oxide Heterostructures Probed by Neutrons and X-rays

Yaohua Liu, Xianglin Ke

Magnetic complex-oxide heterostructures are of keen interest because a wealth of phenomena at the interface of dissimilar materials can give rise to fundamentally new physics and p…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 70 cited

Revealing spatially heterogeneous relaxation in a model nanocomposite

Shiwang Cheng, Stephen Mirigian, Jan-Michael Y. Carrillo +4

The detailed nature of spatially heterogeneous dynamics of glycerol-silica nanocomposites is unraveled by combining dielectric spectroscopy with atomistic simulation and statistica…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 24 cited

Scintillation Properties and Electronic Structure of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Mixed Elpasolites Cs2NaRBr3I3 (R = La, Y)

Hua Wei, Mao-Hua Du, Luis Stand +4

Scintillators attract wide research interest for their distinct applications in radiation detection. Elpasolite halides are among the most promising scintillators due to their high…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015

Epitaxial stabilization and phase instability of VO2 polymorphs

Shinbuhm Lee, Ilia N. Ivanov, Jong K. Keum +1

The VO2 polymorphs, i.e., VO2(A), VO2(B), VO2(M1) and VO2(R), have a wide spectrum of functionalities useful for many potential applications in information and energy technologies.…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 94 cited

Does a dissolution-precipitation mechanism explain concrete creep in moist environments?

Isabella Pignatelli, Aditya Kumar, Rouhollah Alizadeh +3

Long-term creep (i.e., deformation under sustained load) is a significant material response that needs to be accounted for in concrete structural design. However, the nature and or…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 50 cited

Selective control of oxygen sublattice stability by epitaxial strain in Ruddlesden-Popper films

Tricia L. Meyer, Lu Jiang, Jaekwang Lee +8

Oxygen-defect control has long been considered an influential tuning knob for producing various property responses in complex oxide films. In addition to physical property changes,…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 36 cited

A study of the physical properties of single crystalline Fe5B2P

Tej N. Lamichhane, Valentin Taufour, Srinivasa Thimmaiah +3

Single crystals of Fe5B2P were grown by self-flux growth technique. Structural and magnetic properties are studied. The Curie temperature of Fe5B2P is determined to be 6552K. T…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 23 cited

Lattice vibrations boost demagnetization entropy in shape memory alloy

Paul Stonaha, Mike Manley, Nick Bruno +5

Magnetocaloric (MC) materials present an avenue for chemical-free, solid state refrigeration through cooling via adiabatic demagnetization. We have used inelastic neutron scatterin…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 5 cited

Light atom quantum oscillations in UC and US

Yuen Yiu, A. A. Aczel, G. E. Granroth +7

High energy vibrational scattering in the binary systems UC and US is measured using time-of-flight inelastic neutron scattering. A clear set of well-defined peaks equally separate…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 15 cited

Self-consistent theory of nanodomain formation on non-polar surfaces of ferroelectrics

Anna N. Morozovska, Anton Ievlev, Vyacheslav V. Obukhovskii +5

We propose a self-consistent theoretical approach capable to describe the peculiarities of the anisotropic nanodomain formation induced by a charged AFM probe on non-polar cuts of…