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Unconventional free charge in the correlated semimetal Nd2Ir2O7

Wang, K. ; Xu, Bing ; Rischau, C. W. ; Bachar, N. ; Michon, B. ; Teyssier, J. ; Qiu, Y. ; Ohtsuki, T. ; Cheng, Bing ; Armitage, N. P. ; Nakatsuji, S. ; van der Marel, D.

In: Nature Physics, 2020, p. -

Nd2Ir2O7 is a correlated semimetal with the pyrochlore structure, in which competing spin–orbit coupling and electron–electron interactions are believed to induce a time- reversal symmetry-broken Weyl semimetal phase characterized by pairs of topologically protected Dirac points at the Fermi energy1,2,3,4. However, the emergent properties in these materials are far from clear, and exotic...

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Temporal mapping of photochemical reactions and molecular excited states with carbon specificity

Wang, K. ; Murahari, P. ; Yokoyama, K. ; Lord, J. S. ; Pratt, F. L. ; He, J. ; Schulz, Leander ; Willis, M. ; Anthony, J. E. ; Morley, N. A. ; Nuccio, Laura ; Misquitta, A. ; Dunstan, D. J. ; Shimomura, K. ; Watanabe, I. ; Zhang, S. ; Heathcote, P. ; Drew, Alan J.

In: Nature Materials, 2017, vol. 16, no. 4, p. 467–473

Photochemical reactions are essential to a large number of important industrial and biological processes. A method for monitoring photochemical reaction kinetics and the dynamics of molecular excitations with spatial resolution within the active molecule would allow a rigorous exploration of the pathway and mechanism of photophysical and photochemical processes. Here we demonstrate that...

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Muonium avoided level crossing measurement of electron spin relaxation rate in a series of substituted anthradithiophene based molecules

Han, S. ; Wang, K. ; Willis, M. ; Nuccio, Laura ; Pratt, F.L. ; Lord, J.S. ; Thorley, K.J. ; Anthony, J. ; Drew, A.J. ; Zhang, S. ; Schulz, Leander

In: Synthetic Metals, 2015, vol. 208, p. 39–42

Muon spin spectroscopy and in particular the avoided level crossing technique is introduced, with the aim of showing it as a very sensitive local probe for electron spin relaxation in organic semiconductors. Avoided level crossing data on tert-butyl-ethynyl anthradithiophene, tri-methyl-silyl-ethynyl anthradithiophene and tri-ethygermyl-ethynyl anthradithiophene at different temperatures are...