Frustrated quantum rare-earth pyrochlores

JG Rau, MJP Gingras - Annual Review of Condensed Matter …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
In this review, we provide an introduction to the physics of a series of frustrated quantum rare-
earth pyrochlores. We first give a background on the microscopic single-and two-ion physics …

Experimental insights into ground-state selection of quantum XY pyrochlores

AM Hallas, J Gaudet, BD Gaulin - Annual Review of Condensed …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Extensive experimental investigations of the magnetic structures and excitations in the XY
pyrochlores have been carried out over the past decade. Three families of XY pyrochlores …

Standard methods for heat capacity measurements on a quantum design physical property measurement system

PF Rosen, BF Woodfield - The Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics, 2020 - Elsevier
The commercial availability of the Physical Property Measurement System (PPMS) by
Quantum Design has significantly increased access to heat capacity measurements on a …

XY antiferromagnetic ground state in the effective pyrochlore

AM Hallas, J Gaudet, MN Wilson, TJ Munsie, AA Aczel… - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
We report neutron scattering and muon spin relaxation measurements (μ SR) on the
pyrochlore antiferromagnet Yb 2 Ge 2 O 7. Inelastic neutron scattering was used to probe …

First-principles calculations and experimental studies of XYZ 2 thermoelectric compounds: detailed analysis of van der Waals interactions

JH Pöhls, Z Luo, U Aydemir, JP Sun, S Hao… - Journal of Materials …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
First-principles calculations can accelerate the search for novel high-performance
thermoelectric materials. However, the prediction of the thermoelectric properties is strongly …

Order induced by dilution in pyrochlore XY antiferromagnets

A Andreanov, PA McClarty - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
XY pyrochlore antiferromagnets are well-known to exhibit order-by-disorder through both
quantum and thermal selection. In this paper, we consider the effect of substituting …

Existence of short-range magnetic correlation and observation of large magnetocaloric effect in BiGdO3 compound

A Dutta, R Jana, GD Mukherjee, I Das - Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2020 - Elsevier
In the present study, we have investigated the detailed magnetic and magnetocaloric
properties of the rare-earth-based polycrystalline BiGdO 3 compound, synthesized by the …

Single particle entropy stability and the temperature-entropy diagram in quantum dot transistors

F Abualnaja, W He, A Andreev, M Jones… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
Single and double quantum dot (QD) transistors have been used to investigate entropy
transitions in the single particle limit. Precisely controlled QD electron states allow a few …

Effects of magnetic dilution in the ferrimagnetic columnar ordered perovskites

AM Vibhakar, DD Khalyavin, P Manuel, R Liu… - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
Powder neutron-diffraction experiments have been employed to establish the effects of site-
selective magnetic dilution in the Sm 2 MnMnMn 4− x Ti x O 12 A-site columnar ordered …

Magnetic dilution and domain selection in the pyrochlore antiferromagnet

J Gaudet, AM Hallas, DD Maharaj, CRC Buhariwalla… - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
Below TN= 1.1 K, the XY pyrochlore Er 2 Ti 2 O 7 orders into ak= 0 noncollinear,
antiferromagnetic structure referred to as the ψ 2 state. The magnetic order in Er 2 Ti 2 O 7 is …