This thesis is dedicated to the experimental study of new effective spin S=1/2 rare-earth based frustrated quantum magnets using magnetization measurements, neutron and muon spectroscopies. The common thread of this body of experimental work is to understand the effect of random disorder on the exotic quantum states of these highly frustrated rare ...
Published in Topics in Catalysis
Sorption enhanced methanol production makes use of the equilibrium shift of the \documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$$\hbox {CO}_2$$\end{document} CO 2 hydrog...
In this work, we investigate the evolution and settling of magnon condensation in the spin-1/2 dimer system Sr$_{3}$Cr$_{2}$O$_{8}$ using a combination of magnetostriction in pulsed fields and inelastic neutron scattering in a continuous magnetic field. The magnetic structure in the Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) phase was probed by neutron diffr...
Published in Chemical Physics Letters
A recent screening study highlighted a molecular compound, apilimod, for its efficacy against the SARS-CoV-2 virus, while another compound, tetrandrine, demonstrated a remarkable synergy with the benchmark antiviral drug, remdesivir. Here, we find that because of significantly reduced potential energy barriers, which also give rise to pronounced qu...
Combining inelastic neutron and x-ray scattering with atomic scale simulation, we report on a comprehensive study of the lattice dynamics and its relationship with the low thermal conductivity of the o-Al13Co4 phase, a periodic approximant (about 100 atoms per cell) to a decagonal quasicrystal. The obtained experimental data, phonon lifetimes, and ...
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The crystal and magnetic properties of honeycomb BiMnTeO6 have been studied between 1.5 and 300 K using synchrotron x-rays and neutron-scattering experiments. Commensurate magnetic ordering is observed below TN=10K, and corresponds to a noncollinear spin arrangement, with spins tilted away from the anisotropy easy-axis set by the Jahn-Teller distor...
Published in Spectrochimica acta. Part A, Molecular and biomolecular spectroscopy
Inelastic neutron scattering (INS) and infra-red (IR) spectroscopy methods were used for determination of dynamic structure of l-leucine - chloranilic acid complex. A theoretical dynamic pattern calculated by the density functional theory (DFT) method for periodic boundary conditions accompanied the experimental ones. Normal modes in the vibrationa...
Nanolaminates such as the Mn+1AXn (MAX) phases are a class of materials with hexagonal crystal structure for which ab-initio derived elasticity tensors have been published due to sizeable single-crystals not being available. Single crystal elastic constants, however, are fundamental to understanding phase transitions, and a range of mechanical, fra...
A Python software package for data reduction and visualization of continuous angle multiple energy analysis (CAMEA) type detector backend MultiFLEXX is presented. The software concept focuses on unambiguous, automated aggregation of experimental data and preservation of raw data structure in graphical representation, enabling on-the-fly analysis of...
