Neutron Scattering Group - Recent News

Disappearing Superconductivity Reappears -- in 2-D 'Striped' material offers more clues to high-temperature superconductivity or read the APS Synopsis, online, in Physics, J. M. Tranquada, et al.

Guangyong Xu's PRB Kaleidoscope Images and article Showing Diffuse Scattering from KLT.

Guangyong Xu gives the 438th Brookhaven Lecture titled: "Polar Nanoregions and Relaxors: How Nanoscale Disorder Leads to Enormous Electromechanical Response"  See a video of the lecture (Viewed with Realplayer only)

Possible Mechanism for Enormous Electromechanical Response. Could lead to industrial applications including improved sensors, actuators, transducers. Read details of Guangyong Xu's New Release.Genda Gu and students Jinsheng Wen and Zhijun Xu contribute to scanning-tunneling spectroscopy study of cuprate superconductors at Princeton, read their press release and Brookhaven's.

A retired BNL employee and distinguished member of the Neutron Scattering Group, Larry Passell, and two long term  collaborators, Robert Birgeneau and Sunil Sinha, were recently honored by being selected as fellows of the Neutron Scattering Society of America (NSSA), details here (PDF).

Two Group Members honored with a 2007 BNL Employee Award, Eileen Levine, Spotlight Award, and William Leonhardt, Engineering Award, details and photos here.

"Hidden Order Found in a Quantum Spin Liquid" by G. Xu et al.; read about it in Science Magazine: Abstract, Full Text (PDF).

PRB Kaleidoscope Images and Article on High-Energy Magnetic Excitations from Dynamic Stripes in LBCO, G. Xu. . 

"Neutron and X-ray Scattering at the Frontiers and Gen Shirane" Special Topics of JPSJ, Nov. 2006

John Tranquada elected Fellow of the AAAS details here

John Tranquada awarded the 2006 Sustained Research Prize of the Neutron Scattering Society of America  details here

John Tranquada and Genda Gu find More Evidence for "Stripes" in High-Temperature Superconductors. Supports earlier controversial finding, may help explain superconducting mechanism - read further in Laboratory News or in Nature (2006) or cond-mat/0512063

"Ferroelectric' Material Reveals Unexpected Behavior" - read Brookhaven Bulletin article on Guangyong Xu's work or Nature Materials (2006)

"Quasiparticle Behavior In Bose Quantum Liquids - Discovering the failure point of certain quasiparticles may help to understand unusual behavior of many useful materials" - read Brookhaven Bulletin article on Igor Zaliznyak's work here or Nature (2006) or cond-mat/0511266

Gen Shirane: Accomplishments and Reminiscences

"Quantum magnetic excitations from stripes in copper oxide superconductors," Tranquada et al.,  Nature (2004)  or cond-mat/0401621

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