Publications associées à Mésophase

Percolation and phase behavior in cellulose nanocrystal suspensions from nonlinear rheological analysis

We examine the influence of surface charge on the percolation, gel-point and phase behavior of cellulose nanocrystal (CNC) suspensions in relation to their nonlinear rheological material response. Desulfation decreases CNC surface charge density which lead ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2023

FIB-Fabrication of Resonating Cantilevers to Explore Symmetry-Breaking in Quantum Materials

Amelia Emily-Kay Estry

Scientific progress and technological advancements on novel materials are often deterred by limitations on size and quality of samples. Materials with electronic phenomena attractive for applications, and presenting many open scientific questions, are ofte ...

EPFL2023

Photoinduced long-lived state in FeSe0.4Te0.6

Alberto Crepaldi

Fe(Sex)Te(1-)x compounds display a rich phase diagram, ranging from the nematicity of FeSe to the (pi, pi) magnetism of FeTe. We focus on FeSe0.4Te0.6, and exploit tr-ARPES to study its ultrafast electron dynamics following photoexcitation by near-infrared ...

ELSEVIER2021

Decoupling of lattice and orbital degrees of freedom in an iron-pnictide superconductor

László Forró, Qian Wang, Sergiy Katrych, Johan Juul Chang

The interplay between structural and electronic phases in iron-based superconductors is a central theme in the search for the superconducting pairing mechanism. While electronic nematicity is competing with superconductivity, the effect of purely structura ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2021

Non-monotonic pressure dependence of high-field nematicity and magnetism in CeRhIn5

Philip Johannes Walter Moll, Kent Robert Shirer

CeRhIn5 provides a textbook example of quantum criticality in a heavy fermion system: Pressure suppresses local-moment antiferromagnetic (AFM) order and induces superconductivity in a dome around the associated quantum critical point (QCP) near p(c) approx ...

Nature Research2020

Incommensurate crystal structure of PbHfO3

Alla Arakcheeva

Controversy in the description/identification of so-called intermediate phase(s) in PbHfO3, stable in the range similar to 420-480 K, has existed for a few decades. A synchrotron diffraction experiment on a partially detwinned crystal allowed the structure ...

INT UNION CRYSTALLOGRAPHY2020

Melting of a skyrmion lattice to a skyrmion liquid via a hexatic phase

Henrik Moodysson Rønnow, Arnaud Magrez, Marco Cantoni, Fabrizio Carbone, Ping Huang, Thomas Schönenberger

While in 3D materials melting is a single, first-order phase transition, in 2D systems, it can also proceed via an intermediate phase. For a skyrmion lattice in Cu2OSeO3, magnetic field variations can tune this quasiparticle 2D solid into a skyrmion liquid ...

Nature Publishing Group2020

Time-reversal symmetry breaking Abelian chiral spin liquid in Mott phases of three-component fermions on the triangular lattice

Frédéric Mila, Karlo Penc, Pierre Marcel Nataf, Miklos Lajko, Carolin Boos

We provide numerical evidence in favor of spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking and the concomitant appearance of an Abelian chiral spin liquid for three-component fermions on the triangular lattice described by an SU(3) symmetric Hubbard model with hopping ...

2020

Crystal Structure of DMF-Intermediate Phases Uncovers the Link Between CH3NH3PbI3 Morphology and Precursor Stoichiometry

Michael Graetzel, Andrey Petrov

We found for the first time a new origin of selection of perovskite crystallization pathways from DMF solutions containing MAI and PbI2 to present here a comprehensive study of a full set of essential intermediate phases determining the perovskite's morpho ...

American Chemical Society2017

Topological Aspects of Symmetry Breaking in Triangular-Lattice Ising Antiferromagnets

Frédéric Mila, Andrew James Smerald

Using a specially designed Monte Carlo algorithm with directed loops, we investigate the triangular lattice Ising antiferromagnet with coupling beyond the nearest neighbors. We show that the first-order transition from the stripe state to the paramagnet ca ...

2016

Dynamic Tuning of Surface Plasmon Polaritons via Thermally Controlled Liquid Crystals

Hatice Altug, Arif Engin Cetin, Shyamsunder Erramilli, Min Huang

We present a thermally controlled plasmonic substrate in contact with a liquid crystal offering spectral tunings similar to 18.7 nm within similar to 18 degrees C at LC nematic phase. Nematic/ isotropic transition also enables similar to 12 nm spectral cha ...

IEEE2014

Anderson Tower of States and Nematic Order of Spin-1 Bosonic Atoms on a 2D Lattice

Frédéric Mila, Hongyu Yang

We investigate the structure of the spectrum of antiferromagnetically coupled spin-1 bosons on a square lattice using degenerate perturbation theory and exact diagonalizations of finite clusters. We show that the superfluid phase develops an Anderson tower ...

2014

Manifestation of the spin textures in the thermopower of MnSi

László Forró, Ana Akrap, Stevan Arsenijevic

To identify possible spin texture contributions to thermoelectric transport, we present a detailed temperature and pressure dependence of thermopower S in MnSi, as well as a lowtemperature study of S in a magnetic field. We find that S/T reconstructs the ( ...

IOP Publishing - EPL Association2013

Equivalent Theories of Liquid Crystal Dynamics

Tudor Ratiu, François Gay-Balmaz, Cesare Tronci

There are two competing descriptions of nematic liquid crystal dynamics: the Ericksen-Leslie director theory and the Eringen micropolar approach. Up to this day, these two descriptions have remained distinct in spite of several attempts to show that the mi ...

Springer Verlag2013

Temperature-Dependent Ordering Phenomena of a Polyiodide System in a Redox-Active Ionic Liquid

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Jacques-Edouard Moser, Jan Cornelius Brauer, Verner Thorsmolle

Iodine added to iodide-based ionic liquids leads to dramatic changes of their physical properties which may have implications for technological applications. Here we study the phase diagram of 1-methyl 3-propylimidazolium iodide, the temperature versus iod ...

2012

The helicity and vorticity of liquid-crystal flows

François Gay-Balmaz, Cesare Tronci

We present explicit expressions of the helicity conservation in nematic liquid-crystal flows, for both the Ericksen-Leslie and Landau-de Gennes theories. This is done by using a minimal coupling argument that leads to an Euler-like equation for a modified ...

2011

Low-Symmetry Phases in Ferroelectric Nanowires

Nava Setter, Brahim Dkhil

Ferroelectric nanostructures have recently attracted much attention due to the quest of miniaturizing devices and discovering novel phenomena. In particular, studies conducted on two-dimensional and zero-dimensional ferroelectrics have revealed original pr ...

American Chemical Society (ACS)2010

Pyrrolidinium Ionic Liquid Crystals with Pendant Mesogenic Groups

Philip Pattison

New ionic liquid crystals (including ionic metallomesogens) based on the pyrrolidinium core are presented. N-Methylpyrrolidine was quaternized with different mesogenic groups connected to a flexible, ω-bromosubstituted alkyl spacer. The length of the flexi ...

2009

Two-dimensional quantum antiferromagnet with a fourfold degenerate dimer ground state

Frédéric Mila

We study the competition between antiferromagnetic order and valence-bond-crystal formation in a two-dimensional frustrated spin-1/2 model. The J(1)-J(2) model on the square lattice is further frustrated by introducing products of three-spin projectors whi ...

2008

Fixed bed reactor for solid phase surface derivatization of superparamagnetic nanoparticles

Heinrich Hofmann, Alke Fink, Benedikt Steitz, Andrija Finka, Jatuporn Salaklang

The functionalization of nanoparticles is conditio sine qua non in studies of specific interaction with a biological target. Often, their biological functionality is achieved by covalent binding of bioactive molecules on a preexisting single surface coatin ...

2007