Welcome to the Chair of Experimental Physics on the Topology of Correlated Systems!
Our group works in the field of experimental solid state physics. The primary focus of our research concerns the systematic search for new material properties with unusual topological characteristics and strong electronic correlations in the areas of magnetism and superconductivity. The portfolio of our experimental methods encompasses single crystal growth of transition metal and rare earth compounds, measurements of transport and bulk properties under extreme conditions, and a wide range of neutron and x-ray scattering methods.
We report neutron depolarization measurements of the suppression of long-range ferromagnetism and the concomitant emergence of magnetic irreversibilities and spin freezing in CePd(1−x)Rhx around x*≈0.6. Tracking the temperature versus field history of the neutron depolarization, we find clear signatures of long-range Ising ferromagnetism below a Curie temperature TC for x=0.4 and a spin freezing of ferromagnetic clusters below a freezing…
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Mesoscale patterns as observed in, for example, ferromagnets, ferroelectrics, superconductors, monomolecular films or block copolymers reflect spatial variations of a pertinent order parameter at length scales and time scales that may be described classically. This raises the question for the relevance of mesoscale patterns near zero-temperature phase transitions, also known as quantum phase transitions. Here we report the magnetic susceptibility…
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MIEZE (Modulation of IntEnsity with Zero Effort) spectroscopy is a high-resolution spin echo technique optimized for the study of magnetic samples and samples under depolarizing conditions. It requires a polarization analyzer in between spin flippers and the sample position. For this, the device needs to be compact and insensitive to stray fields from large magnetic fields at the sample position. For MIEZE, in small angle scattering geometry, it…
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