Nature Materials

Hands-on inspiration for science + Editorial : Lessons in Science Education

By Christoph Renner (picture / UniGE)
A paper about the PhysiScope, a MaNEP initiative to popularize physics.
Nature Materials 8, 245 - 247 (2009) - [ link ]
Materials 8, 243 (2009) - EDITORIAL - [ link ]

Giant superconductivity-induced modulation of the ferromagnetic magnetization in a cuprate–manganite superlattice

By J. Hoppler (picture left / UniFR), J. Stahn (picture right / PSI), Ch. Niedermayer, V. K. Malik, H. Bouyanfi, A. J. Drew, M. Rössle, A. Buzdin, G. Cristiani, H.-U. Habermeier, B. Keimer & C. Bernhard.
Nature Materials 8, 315 - 319 (2009) - [ link ]

Coexistence of static magnetism and superconductivity in SmFeAsO_1-xF_x as revealed by muon spin rotation

By A. J. Drew (picture/UniFR), Ch. Niedermayer, P. J. Baker, F. L. Pratt, S. J. Blundell, T. Lancaster, R. H. Liu, G. Wu, X. H. Chen, I. Watanabe, V. K. Malik, A. Dubroka, M. Rössle, K. W. Kim, C. Baines & C. Bernhard.
Nature Materials 8, 310 - 314 (2009) - [ link ]

From Mott state to superconductivity in 1T-TaS₂

By B. Sipos, A. F. Kusmartseva (picture/EPFL), A. Akrap, H. Berger, L. Forró & E. Tuti


Nature Materials 7, 960 - 965 (2008) - [ link ]

Physical Review Letters

New Structural Model for the Si(331)-(12×1) Surface Reconstruction

By Corsin Battaglia (picture/UniNE), Katalin Gaál-Nagy, Claude Monney, Clément Didiot, Eike Fabian Schwier, Michael Gunnar Garnier, Giovanni Onida, and Philipp Aebi.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 066102 (2009) - [ link ]

Electronic Phase Separation in the Slightly Underdoped Iron Pnictide Superconductor Ba_1-xK_xFe₂As₂

By J. T. Park, D. S. Inosov, Ch. Niedermayer (picture/PSI), G. L. Sun, D. Haug, N. B. Christensen, R. Dinnebier, A. V. Boris, A. J. Drew, L. Schulz, T. Shapoval, U. Wolff, V. Neu, Xiaoping Yang, C. T. Lin, B. Keimer, and V. Hinkov.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 117006 (2009) - [ link ]

Relaxation of Antiferromagnetic Order in Spin-1/2 Chains Following a Quantum Quench

By Peter Barmettler (picture/UniFR), Matthias Punk, Vladimir Gritsev, Eugene Demler, and Ehud Altman.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 130603 (2009) - [ link ]

Mapping the Electronic Surface Potential of Nanostructured Surfaces

By P. Ruffieux (picture/EMPA), K. Ait-Mansour, A. Bendounan, R. Fasel, L. Patthey, P. Gröning, and O. Gröning
Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 086807 (2009) - [ link ]

Topological Anderson Insulator

By Jian Li (picture/UniGE), Rui-Lin Chu, J. K. Jain, and Shun-Qing Shen.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 136806 (2009) - [ link ]

Reduced and Projected Two-Particle Entanglement at Finite Temperatures

By P. Samuelsson, I. Neder, and M. Büttiker (picture/UniGE).
Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 106804 (2009) - [ link ]

Direct Observation of Magnon Fractionalization in the Quantum Spin Ladder

By B. Thielemann (picture/PSI), Ch. Rüegg, H. M. Ronnow, A. M. Läuchli, J.-S. Caux, B. Normand, D. Biner, K.W. Krämer, H.-U. Güdel, J. Stahn, K. Habicht, K. Kiefer, M. Boehm, D. F. McMorrow, and J. Mesot.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 107204 (2009) - [ link ]

Fermi Surface and Order Parameter Driven Vortex Lattice Structure Transitions in Twin-Free YBa₂Cu₃O₇

By J. S. White, V. Hinkov, R.W. Heslop, R. J. Lycett, E. M. Forgan, C. Bowell, S. Strässle, A. B. Abrahamsen, M. Laver, C. D. Dewhurst, J. Kohlbrecher, J. L. Gavilano (picture/PSI), J. Mesot, B. Keimer, and A. Erb.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 097001 (2009) - [ link ]

Breakdown of Landau Theory in Overdoped Cuprates near the Onset of Superconductivity

By M.Ossadnik (picture/ETHZ), C.Honerkamp, T.M.Rice and M.Sigrist.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 256405 (2008) - [ link ]

Graphene on Ru(0001): A 25×25 Supercell

By D. Martoccia, P. R. Willmott (picture/PSI), T. Brugger, M. Björck, S. Günther, C. M. Schlepütz, A. Cervellino, S. A. Pauli, B. D. Patterson, S. Marchini, J. Wintterlin, W. Moritz, and T. Greber.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 126102 (2008) - [ link ]

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