Physics in Action

BESSY II (September 2019)

Resonant X-ray Scattering Nostalgia. Users of UE46, is there a better plotting software?

STS experiments on FeSe (September 2019)

Quasiparticle Interference (QPI) measured at the UC Davis STM/S Lab.

Experiments at CLS (September 2019)

We were the first external users to use the QMSC ARPES beam line.

Ryan Day (UBC) and Morgan Walker (UC Davis) measuring the band structure of FeSe, high-temperature superconductor.

Hf₂Te₂P Paper Published !!! (August 2019)

Congratulations to Tim and our collaborators in Davis and Berkeley !

Band structure mapping with scanning tunneling spectroscopy provides the first experimental evidence for the strong topological state near 460meV above the Fermi energy.

qRIXS at ALS (August 2019)

I went to Berkeley and all I got was this data set! 🙂

Actually the beam line worked beautifully and there is much more coming. Manuscript in preparation, stay tuned!

Experiments at BESSY II Synchrotron (July/August 2019)

Investigating Charge Order in Cuprates Part 2

Collaboration between UC Davis, UCSD (Alex Frano), CIC nanoGUNE (Santiago Blanco-Canosa) and BESSY II (Erinco Schierle and Christian Shussler-Langeheine).

Photo (left to right): Eduardo, Morgan (UC Davis), Alejandro Ruiz (UCSD), Santi (CIC nanoGUNE) and Alex (UC sand Diego)

Temporary Helium Recovery System with a QD ATL80 (July 2019)

Thank you Peter Klavins, Physics Specialist! Now we can do low temperature STS again 🙂

Experiments at BESSY II Synchrotron (May 2019)

Investigating Charge Order in Cuprates

Collaboration between UC Davis, UCSD (Alex Frano), CIC nanoGUNE (Santiago Blanco-Canosa) and BESSY II (Erinco Schierle and Christian Shussler-Langeheine).

Photo: Morgan Walker (UC Davis), Alejandro Ruiz (UCSD), Tim Boyle (UC Davis)

NSF Career awarded for the study of intertwined orders in quantum materials.

See News Articles and Abstract:

https://lettersandscience.ucdavis.edu/blog/two-nsf-career-awards-college-letters-and-science-faculty

https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1845994&HistoricalAwards=false

Sloan Research Fellowship in Physics

Awarded to E. H. da Silva Neto, PI (February 2018).

See New Articles and Announcement:

https://sloan.org/fellowships/2019-Fellows

https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/4-receive-sloan-research-fellowships

https://lettersandscience.ucdavis.edu/news/physics-professors-receive-sloan-research-fellowships

Resonant X-ray Scattering Experiments at SLAC

Studying cuprates in collaboration with Prof. Alex Fraño from UC San Diego

Polarimetric RIXS on NCCO published as a Rapid Communication in Physical Review B

We exploited the high-resolution ERIXS spectrometer at the ID32 beamline at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility to uncover the coupling between dynamic magnetic correlations and charge order in cuprates.

In this collaboration: UC Davis, Max Planck Institute FKF, University of Minnesota, Quantum Matter Institute (UBC), ESRF, CNRS, Karlsruhe Institute for Technology , HZB, AGH Poland.

https://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.98.161114

Congratulation to Martin Bluschke and collaborators. (July 2018).

We discovered the 3D stabilization of charge order in YBCO thin films, a behavior similar to what happens in bulk crystals of YBCO in high magnetic fields.

In this collaboration: Max Planck Institute FKF, HZB, UC Davis, UC Berkeley, UC San Diego, LBNL, IKERBASQUE, Donostia International Physics Center.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-05434-8