Informing quantum materials discovery and synthesis using X-ray micro-computed tomography

LA Pressley, D Edey, R Hanna, S Chae… - npj Quantum …, 2022 - nature.com
The presence of inclusions, twinning, and low-angle grain boundaries, demanded to exist by
the third law of thermodynamics, drive the behavior of quantum materials. Identification and …

Respective Roles of Electron-Phonon and Electron-Electron Interactions in the Transport and Quasiparticle Properties of

DJ Abramovitch, J Mravlje, JJ Zhou, A Georges… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
The spectral and transport properties of strongly correlated metals, such as SrVO 3 (SVO),
are widely attributed to electron-electron (ee) interactions, with lattice vibrations (phonons) …

Recent Progress of Floating-Zone Techniques for Bulk Single-Crystal Growth

N Kikugawa - Crystals, 2024 - mdpi.com
This review describes the recent progress of floating-zone techniques for bulk single-crystal
growth. The most crucial point of the crucible-free technique is to keep the molten zone …

Optimization of PbTiO3 Single Crystals with Flux and Laser Floating Zone Method

LA Pressley, M Sinha, HK Vivanco… - Crystal Growth & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
PbTiO3 is an established high temperature ferroelectric and component of multiferroic
devices. Single crystal growth of clean PbTiO3 has largely been limited to flux growth, in part …

Tools and Tricks for Single Crystal Growth

T Berry, N Ng, TM McQueen - Chemistry of Materials, 2024 - ACS Publications
Single-crystal growth is a widely explored method of synthesizing materials in the solid state.
The last few decades have seen significant improvements in the techniques used to …

Tunable W5+ Absorbance in Laser Floating Zone Grown Bismuth Tungstate

LA Pressley, M Sinha, MA Siegler… - The Journal of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Bi2WO6 has been actively investigated as a viable photocatalysis substitute for TiO2. This
along with progress in designing qubit hosts using W5+ centers encourages the …

Single crystal growth tricks and treats

T Berry, N Ng, TM McQueen - ar**
P Manivannan, S Giri, D Misra - Journal of Electronic Materials, 2025 - Springer
Employing the density functional theory (DFT)+ Hubbard U approach, this work intends to
explore the effects of strain and transition metal do** on the optical and electronic …

Fermi-Liquid Resistivity: Dynamical Mean-Field Theory Meets Experiment

J Lee-Hand, H LaBollita, FB Kugler… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Direct-current resistivity is a key probe for the physical properties of materials. In metals,
Fermi-liquid (FL) theory serves as the basis for understanding transport. A $ T^ 2$ behavior …