High pressure research using muons at the Paul Scherrer Institute

Abstract

Pressure, together with temperature and magnetic field, is an important thermodynamical parameter in physics. Investigating the response of a compound or of a material to pressure allows to elucidate ground states, investigate their interplay and interactions and determine microscopic parameters. Pressure tuning is used to establish phase diagrams, study phase transitions and identify critical points. Muon spin rotation/relaxation (muSR) is now a standard technique making increasing significant contribution in condensed matter physics, material science research and other fields. In this review, we will discuss specific requirements and challenges to perform muSR experiments under pressure, introduce the high-pressure muon facility at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI, Switzerland) and present selected results obtained by combining the sensitivity of the muSR technique with pressure.

Submitted to High Pressure Research. 26 pages, 17 Figures

References in corpus (20)

• Muon spin rotation and relaxation in magnetic materials
• Pressure Induced Static Magnetic Order in Superconducting FeSe_1-x
• Synthesis, crystal structure and chemical stability of the superconductor FeSe_{1-x}
• Superconductivity of 2.2 K under Pressure in Helimagnet CrAs
• Evolution of two-gap behavior of the superconductor FeSe_1-x
• Solidification and loss of hydrostaticity in liquid media used for pressure measurements
• Pressure dependence of the magnetic order in CrAs: a neutron diffraction investigation
• Direct evidence for the emergence of a pressure induced nodal superconducting gap in the iron-based superconductor Ba_0.65Rb_0.35Fe_2As_2
• Pressure-induced electronic phase separation of magnetism and superconductivity in CrAs
• Tuning of competing magnetic and superconducting phase volumes in LaFeAsO$_0.945F_0.055 by hydrostatic pressure
• Evolution of magnetic interactions in a pressure-induced Jahn-Teller driven magnetic dimensionality switch
• Pressure-induced quantum critical and multicritical points in a frustrated spin liquid
• Pressure induced ferromagnetism in antiferromagnetic Fe_1.03Te
• Direct observation of the quantum critical point in heavy fermion CeRhSi${}_3$
• Tuning the static spin-stripe phase and superconductivity in La_(2-x)Ba_xCuO_4 (x = 1/8) by hydrostatic pressure
• Superfluid density and superconducting gaps of RbFe_{2}As_{2} as a function of hydrostatic pressure
• Mutual independence of critical temperature and superfluid density under pressure in optimally electron-doped superconducting LaFeAsO${}_{1-x}$F${}_x$
• The 10 Tesla muSR instrument: detector solutions
• Muon-spin rotation and magnetization studies of chemical and hydrostatic pressure effects in EuFe_{2}(As_{1-x}P_{x})_{2}
• A lens-coupled scintillation counter in cryogenic environment

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• Tunable Berry Curvature Through Magnetic Phase Competition in a Topological Kagome Magnet
• Possible topologically non-trivial superconducting order parameter in type-II Weyl semimetal T_d-MoTe_2
• Magnetism in Semiconducting Molybdenum Dichalcogenides
• Charge order breaks time-reversal symmetry in CsV${}_3$Sb${}_5$
• Strong coupling nature of kagome superconductivity in LaRu${}_3$Si${}_2$
• Pressure-enhanced splitting of density wave transitions in La${}_3$Ni${}_2$O${}_{7-\delta }$
• Breakdown of magnetic order in the pressurized Kitaev iridate $\beta$-Li${}_2$IrO${}_3$
• Ferromagnetic Quantum Critical Point Avoided by the Appearance of Another Magnetic Phase in LaCrGe${}_3$ under Pressure
• Unsplit superconducting and time reversal symmetry breaking transitions in Sr${}_2$RuO${}_4$ under hydrostatic pressure and disorder
• Nodeless Superconductivity and its Evolution with Pressure in the Layered Dirac Semimetal 2M-WS_2
• Spectroscopic perspective on the interplay between electronic and magnetic properties of magnetically doped topological insulators
• A low-background piston-cylinder type hybrid high pressure cell for muon-spin rotation/relaxation experiments
• Pressure-induced ferromagnetism in the topological semimetal EuCd${}_2$As${}_2$
• Perspective on the muon-spin rotation/relaxation under hydrostatic pressure
• Formation of short-range magnetic order and avoided ferromagnetic quantum criticality in pressurized LaCrGe${}_3$
• Ground state selection under pressure in the quantum pyrochlore magnet Yb2Ti2O7
• High pressure magnetic state of MnP probed by means of muon-spin rotation
• Chemical- and hydrostatic-pressure effects on the Kitaev honeycomb material Na${}_2$IrO${}_3$
• Epsilon-iron as a spin-smectic state
• Muon spin rotation study of type-I superconductivity: elemental $\beta -$Sn
• Pressure induced magnetic order in FeSe
• Piezoelectric-driven uniaxial pressure cell for muon spin relaxation and neutron scattering experiments
• On the superconducting nature of the Bi-II phase of elemental Bismuth
• Magnetic tricritical point and nematicity in FeSe under pressure
• Spin-liquid signatures in the quantum critical regime of pressurized CePdAl
• Robust block magnetism in the spin ladder compound BaFe${}_2$Se${}_3$ under hydrostatic pressure
• Superconductivity of Bi-III phase of elemental Bismuth: insights from Muon-Spin Rotation and Density Functional Theory
• Cooperative coupling of static magnetism and bulk superconductivity in the stripe phase of La_2-xBa_xCuO_4: Pressure- and doping-dependent studies
• Magnetic states of MnP: muon-spin rotation studies
• Extended Magnetic Dome Induced by Low Pressures in Superconducting FeSe${}_{1\text{-}\mathrm{x}}$S${}_{\mathrm{x}}$
• Persistent spin dynamics in the pressurized spin-liquid candidate YbMgGaO${}_4$
• Probing the quantum phase transition in Mott insulator BaCoS_2 tuned by pressure and Ni-substitution
• Structural phases of elemental Gallium: universal relations in type-I superconductors
• Quantifying the nonadiabaticity strength constant in recently discovered highly-compressed superconductors
• Two-gap to Single-gap Superconducting Transition on a Honeycomb Lattice in Ca${}_{1-x}$Sr${}_x$AlSi
• Anomalous gap ratio in anisotropic superconductors: aluminum under pressure
• muEDM: Towards a search for the muon electric dipole moment at PSI using the frozen-spin technique
• Unconventional pressure dependence of the superfluid density in the nodeless topological superconductor $\alpha$-PdBi${}_2$
• Pressure tuning of structure, superconductivity and novel magnetic order in the Ce-underdoped electron-doped cuprate T'-Pr_1.3-xLa_0.7Ce_xCuO_4 (x = 0.1)
• Pressure effects on the electronic properties of the undoped superconductor ThFeAsN
• Three-wall piston-cylinder type pressure cell for muon-spin rotation/relaxation experiments
• Pressure weakens coupling strength in In and Sn elemental superconductors
• Magnetism driven by strong electronic correlation in the heavily carrier-doped iron oxypnictide LaFeAsO${}_{0.49}$H${}_{0.51}$
• Effect of disorder on a pressure-induced $z=1$ magnetic quantum phase transition
• Pressure Effect on the Spin Density Wave Transition in La${}_2$PrNi${}_2$O${}_{6.96}$
• Pressure-Induced Antiferromagnetic Dome in the Heavy-Fermion $Y{b}_{2}P{d}_{2}I{n}_{1-x}S{n}_x$ System
• Influence of pressure on properties of multi-gap type-I superconductor BeAu
• Interplay of structure and magnetism in LuFe4Ge2 tuned by hydrostatic pressure
• Coupled Magnetic and Superconducting Transitions in Sr${}_2$VO${}_3$FeAs Under Pressure
• Pressure-induced magnetism in iron-based superconductors $A$Fe${}_2$As${}_2$ ($A=$ K, Cs, Rb)
• Hydrostatic and chemical pressure driven crossover from commensurate to the incommensurate state of the Weyl semimetal Mn${}_{3+x}$Sn${}_{1-x}$
• Pressure driven magnetic order in Sr${}_{1-x}$Ca${}_x$Co${}_2$P${}_2$
• Optical setup for a piston-cylinder type pressure cell: a double-volume approach
• Anisotropic superconductivity in the quasi-one-dimensional superconductor V${}_2$Ga${}_5$
• μSR investigation of the Fe-doped Ca${}_3$Ru${}_2$O${}_7$ polar metal
• Linear Scaling of the Superfluid Density with the Critical Temperature in the Layered Superconductor 2H-NbSe_2
• Fluctuating magnetism in Zn-doped averievite with well-separated kagome layers
• Origin of the suppression of magnetic order in MnSi under hydrostatic pressure
• Magnetic Properties of Multifunctional ${}^7$LiFePO${}_4$ under Hydrostatic Pressure
• Confirming the high pressure phase diagram of the Shastry-Sutherland model
• Emergence of a Fluctuating Ground State in Y-kapellasite under Pressure
• The use of LEDs as a light source for fluorescence pressure measurements
• Thermodynamic evidence for a pressure-driven crossover from strong- to weak-coupling superconductivity in Pb
• TRIM Simulations Tool for ${\mu }^{+}$ Stopping Fraction in Hydrostatic Pressure Cells