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Five neutron experiments that advanced hard condensed matter Collin Broholm Johns Hopkins University
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Caveats !!! Not authoritative, representative, or balanced Based on things I know & like Conducive to concluding remarks To make the list –Introduce or confirm a new paradigm –Enabled by instrumental innovation –Author should preferably not be at this meeting
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Overview Introduction Five great experiments 1.Neel Order 2.Phonons 3.Soft modes 4.Quantum Magnetism 5.Structure of Oxides Lessons learned
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A brief story of Antiferromangetism 1970 Nobel Prize in Physics to Hannes Alfvén and Louis Néel Nobel lecture (1970). L. Néel 1904-2000
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Staggered magnetization or QM singlet 1962 Nobel Prize in Physics Phys. Zs. UdSSR (1933). L. D. Landau 1908-1968
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Early Graphite Reactor Days at ORNL Wollan set up double crystal spectrometer in November 1945 First powder pattern, rocksalt, in April, 1946 Shull joined Wollan in August, 1946 Wally Koehler (1949), Mike Wilkinson (1950)
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Development of Neutron Diffraction Clifford Shull and Ernest Wollan: pioneers of neutron diffraction with their ORNL machine.
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Experimental Evidence for Néel order C. G. Shull 1915-2001 1994 Nobel Prize to B. N. Brockhouse and C. G. Shull
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Early Classification of AFM ordering C. G. Shull and J. S. Smart, Detection of antiferromagnetism by neutron diffraction, Phys. Rev. 76, 1256-1257 (1949). C. G. Shull, W. A. Strauser, and E. O. Wollan, Neutron diffraction by paramagnetic and antiferromagnetic substances, Phys. Rev. 83, 333-345 (1951)
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Phonons: concept and/or reality? Y. Frenkel, Russian Physicist 1894-1952 Tamm, Russian Physicist 1895-1971 1958 Nobel Laurate
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Meanwhile at Chalk River NRX Reactor NRU Reactor
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Invention of the Triple Axis Spectrometer B. N. Brockhouse 1957 Nobel Prize 1994
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Reactors built for scattering
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A next Generation of Neutron Source High Flux Beam Reactor, BNL 1965-1996
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Critical Phenomena burst onto the stage Citations to papers on “critical phenomena” Sixties: Scaling theory L. P. Kadanoff and M. E. Fisher Seventies: Renormalization group by K. G. Wilson.
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Soft Modes & Phase Transitions Gen Shirane 1924-2005
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Low D Quantum Magnetism “What is the spin of a spin wave?” Faddeev and Takhtajan (1981) “The RVB State in LaCu 2 O 4 & Supercond.” Anderson (1987) “Inter Spin chains & the O(3) Non Linear Sigma Model”, Haldane (1983)
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Quasi-one-dimensional materials KCuF 3 CsNiCl 3 Spin-1/2 AFM Spin-1 AFM
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Time of flight inelastic magnetic scattering MARI spectrometer at ISIS
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Time of Flight Powder Diffraction Jorgensen 1948-2006
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Structure of High T C Superconductors J. D. Jorgensen et al PRB Received June 1987 >1000 citations T=623 o C T=818 o C
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Stripes in High T C Superconductors Tranquada et al. Nature (1995) >1000 citations
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Summary Major impacts from neutrons often associated with –Theoretical maturity of subject –Chemistry, new materials –Advances in instrumentation New instrumentation at SNS –Orders of magnitude increase in performance Our Challenge: Can we identify and exploit new areas of science ripe for impact from scattering? Our Challenge: Can we identify and exploit new areas of science ripe for impact from scattering?
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