National High Magnetic Field Laboratory: DC Field Facility Science Highlights

DC Field Science Highlights

One of the important goals of the Mag Lab is to facilitate the exchange of scientific knowledge and to communicate the science and engineering achievements of the laboratory's faculty and users. These science highlights showcase the cutting-edge research underway at the DC Field Facility. For a list of recent research generated from all our programs, please visit our main Science Highlights page.

2009 DC Field Science Highlights
Date	Research Area	Title	Site / Program	Contact
Nov. 12	Condensed Matter Physics	Magnetoelastic Coupling through the Field-driven Transition to the Fully Polarized State in a Metal Organic Framework Material	FSU / DC Field Facility	Jan Musfeldt
Oct. 20	Condensed Matter NMR	Two Inequivalent Sublattices and Orbital Ordering in MnV₂O₄ by ⁵¹V NMR	DC Field Facility	Seung-Ho Baek or Arneil Reyes
Aug. 28	Condensed Matter Physics	Fermi Surface of α-Uranium at Ambient Pressure*	FSU / DC Field	Stan Tozer or Eric Palm
July 27	Condensed Matter Physics	Quantum Critical Spin Dynamics of an S=1/2 Antiferromagnetic Heisenberg Chain Studied by ¹³C-NMR Spectroscopy	FSU / DC Field	Hannes Kühne or Arneil Reyes
June 22	Condensed Matter Physics	Magnetization-driven Metal-insulator Transition in Strongly Disordered Ge:Mn Magnetic Semiconductors	FSU / DC Field	Sasha Gerber or Alexey Suslov
June 15	Condensed Matter Physics	Large Magnetoresistance of a Dilute 2DHG in p-Si/SiGe/Si in a Parallel Magnetic Field	FSU / DC Field	I.L. Drichko or Alexey Suslov
April 21	Condensed Matter Physics	Observation of a Fractional Quantum Hall State at ν=1/4 in a Wide GaAs Quantum Well	FSU / DC Field	Dwight Luhman

2008 DC Field Science Highlights
Date	Research Area	Title	Site / Program	Contact
July 31	Condensed Matter Physics	HTc Superconductor MultiComponent Fermi Surface	FSU / DC Field	Suchitra Sebastian, Eric Palm
April 30	Chemistry	A Family of Cyanide-Bridged Molecular Squares: Structural and Magnetic Properties of [{M^IICl₂}₂{Co^II(triphos)(CN)₂}₂] ·xCH₂Cl₂, M = Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Zn	EMR and DC Field	Jurek Krzystek
March 24	Condensed Matter Physics	Cyclotron Resonance in Bilayer Graphene	DC Field	Zhigang Jiang

2007 DC Field Science Highlights
Date	Research Area	Title	Site / Program	Contact
Nov. 29	Condensed Matter Physics	Quantum Hall States near the Charge-Neutral Dirac Point in Graphene	FSU / DC Field Facility	Zhigang Jiang
Nov. 1	Condensed Matter Physics	Orbital Ordering Transition in Sr₂VO₄	FSU / DC Field	Chris Wiebe or H.D. Zhou
Oct. 11	Condensed Matter Physics	Wigner Crystal in p-SiGe/Si Heterostructure	FSU / DC Field	Irina Drichko or Alexey Suslov
Oct. 2	Condensed Matter Physics	Correlation between T_c and Anisotropic Scattering in a High Temperature Superconductor	FSU / DC Field	Nigel Hussey or Luis Balicas
August 20	Condensed Matter Physics	Signatures of Electron Fractionalization in Ultraquantum Bismuth	FSU / DC Field	Kamran Behnia or Luis Balicas
July 30	Condensed Matter Physics	Spin Dynamics of the Spin-½ Kagomé Lattice Antiferromagnet ZnCu₃(OH)₆Cl₂	FSU / DC Field	Young Lee or Joel Helton
July 17	Condensed Matter Physics	Low Temperature Vortex Liquid in La_2-xSr_xCuO₄	FSU / DC Field	N.P. Ong or Lu Li
June 11	Condensed Matter Physics	Landau Level Spectroscopy of Graphene	FSU / DC Field	Zhigang Jiang or Horst Stormer
May 14	Condensed Matter Physics	Room-Temperature Quantum Hall Effect in Graphene	FSU / DC Field	Zhigang Jiang or Greg Boebinger
May 1	Condensed Matter Physics	Antiferromagnetism & Hidden-order State in URu₂Si₂	FSU / DC Field	Luis Balicas or Y.J. Jo
April 26	Condensed Matter Physics	Magnetically Induced Field-Effect in Carbon Nanotube Devices	FSU / DC Field	Dmitry Smirnov
April 9	Condensed Matter Physics	High Field Suppression of In-Gap States in Kondo Insulator SmB₆	FSU / DC Field	Arneil Reyes
April 9	Condensed Matter Physics	Limits of Superconductivity in Bi-2212	FSU / DC Field	Arneil Reyes or Bill Halperin
March 26	Condensed Matter Physics	First Direct Observation of Two-Magnon Bound States in Spin-1 Anisotropic Chains in High Magnetic Fields	FSU / DC Field	Jurek Krzystek or Sergei Zvyagin
March 21	Condensed Matter Physics	Orbital-Dependent Metamagnetic Response in Sr₄Ru₃O₁₀	FSU / DC Field	Luis Balicas
Feb. 12	Condensed Matter Physics	Extending Superconducting Magnet Technology with High Temperature Superconductors and MgB₂	FSU / DC Field	Arneil Reyes

*The National Science Foundation periodically solicits Highlights from the Magnet Lab, and this research activity was one of the highlights submitted. NSF highlights use a template and each includes two slides: The first slide presents the research; the second slide discusses broader impacts.