Publications related to Electron scattering

Effect of Co-Substitution on Hydrogen Absorption and Desorption Reactions of YMgNi4-Based Alloys

Andreas Züttel, Loris Giovanni Lombardo, Wen Luo, Heena Yang

YMgNi4-based alloys exhibit reversible hydrogen absorption and desorption reactions at near room temperature. Here, we report that Co-substituted YMgNi4-based alloys exhibited higher hydrogen contents and lower hydrogen absorption and desorption reaction p ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Static and dynamic properties of non-collinear quantum antiferromagnets explored by neutron scattering

Luc Testa

This thesis is devoted to the investigation of static and dynamic properties of two different sets of quantum magnets with neutron scattering techniques and the help of linear spin wave theory. Both systems are copper-based with spin-1/2, which makes them ...

EPFL2021

State-to-state methane-surface scattering as a probe of catalytic activity

Rainer Beck, Maarten Eduard van Reijzen, Bo-Jung Chen, Jörn Werdecker

Quantum state-resolved scattering experiments for methane molecules colliding with a catalytically active nickel surface are compared to scattering from a nickel surface passivated by a single layer of graphene. The vibrational state distribution of the sc ...

2020

Energy domain versus time domain precursor fluctuations above the Verwey transition in magnetite

Henrik Moodysson Rønnow, Fabrizio Carbone, Gregory Scott Tucker, Simone Borroni

We study the dynamics and interactions of the critical fluctuations of the Verwey transition in magnetite (Fe3O4) in the pretransition region by means of inelastic neutron scattering experiments on a natural single crystal. We find that a Delta(5) mode int ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2020

Temperature dependence of the(pi,0)anomaly in the excitation spectrum of the 2D quantum Heisenberg antiferromagnet

Henrik Moodysson Rønnow, Martin Mourigal, Goran Nilsen

It is well established that in the low-temperature limit, the two-dimensional quantum Heisenberg antiferromagnet on a square lattice (2DQHAFSL) exhibits an anomaly in its spectrum at short-wavelengths on the zone-boundary. In the vicinity of the (pi, 0) po ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2020

Nuclear Quantum Effects: Fast and Accurate

Venkat Kapil

Atomistic simulations are a bottom up approach that predict properties of materials by modelling the quantum mechanical behaviour of all electrons and nuclei present in a system. These simulations, however, routinely assume nuclei to be classical particles ...

EPFL2020

Phonon Lifetimes Throughout the Brillouin Zone at Elevated Temperatures from Experiment and ab initio

Albert Johann Glensk

We obtain phonon lifetimes in aluminium by inelastic neutron scattering experiments, by ab initio molecular dynamics, and by perturbation theory. At elevated temperatures significant discrepancies are found between experiment and perturbation theory, which ...

2019

Nuclear Quantum Effects in Water at the Triple Point: Using Theory as a Link Between Experiments

Michele Ceriotti, Bingqing Cheng

One of the most prominent consequences of the quantum nature of light atomic nuclei is that their kinetic energy does not follow a Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution. Deep inelastic neutron scattering (DINS) experiments can measure this effect. Thus, the nucle ...

Amer Chemical Soc2016

Anomalous thermal decoherence in a quantum magnet measured with neutron spin echo spectroscopy

Thomas Keller, Felix Groitl

The effect of temperature dependent asymmetric line broadening is investigated in Cu(NO3)(2)center dot 2.5D(2)O, a model material for a one-dimensional bond alternating Heisenberg chain, using the high resolution neutron-resonance spin echo (NRSE) techniqu ...

Amer Physical Soc2016

Nuclear Quantum Effects in Water and Aqueous Systems: Experiment, Theory, and Current Challenges

Michele Ceriotti, Wei Fang

Nuclear quantum effects influence the structure and dynamics of hydrogen-bonded systems, such as water, which impacts their observed properties with widely varying magnitudes. This review highlights the recent significant developments in the experiment, th ...

American Chemical Society2016

Magnetic-Field-Induced Soft-Mode Quantum Phase Transition in the High-Temperature Superconductor La1.855Sr0.145CuO4: An Inelastic Neutron-Scattering Study

Henrik Moodysson Rønnow, Joël Mesot, Johan Juul Chang

Inelastic neutron-scattering experiments on the high-temperature superconductor La1.855Sr0.145CuO4 reveal a magnetic excitation gap Delta that decreases continuously upon application of a magnetic field perpendicular to the CuO2 planes. The gap vanishes at ...

2009

Exact diagonalization study of the antiferromagnetic spin-1/2 Heisenberg model on the square lattice in a magnetic field

We study the field dependence of the antiferromagnetic spin-1/2 Heisenberg model on the square lattice by means of exact diagonalizations. In the first part, we calculate the spin-wave velocity c, the spin stiffness rho(s), and the magnetic susceptibility ...

2009

Multiple magnon modes and consequences for the Bose-Einstein condensed phase in BaCuSi2O6

Henrik Moodysson Rønnow, Bruce Normand, Christian Rüegg

The compound BaCuSi2O6 is a quantum magnet with antiferromagnetic dimers of S=1/2 moments on a quasi-2D square lattice. We have investigated its spin dynamics by inelastic neutron scattering experiments on single crystals with an energy resolution consider ...

AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOC2007

Scattering of 14.1 MeV neutrons by 10 B

The angular distributions of the differential cross-sections for scattering of 14.1 MeV neutrons to the Q = 0, – 1.74, – 2.15, – 3.58, – 4.77, – (5.11 + 5.16 + 5.18), – (5.92 + 6.04 + 6.13), – 6.56 and – (6.88 + 7.0) MeV levels of 10B have been measured fo ...

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