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Ling, B.-K.*; Chang, M.*; Zhai, Y.-Q.*; Deng, J.*; 古府 麻衣子*; Guo, H.*; Zhao, J.*; Fu, Z.*; Zheng, Y.-Z.*
Journal of the American Chemical Society, 147(13), p.10935 - 10942, 2025/03
被引用回数：1 パーセンタイル：0.00(Chemistry, Multidisciplinary)The efficient excitation and controlled propagation of nanoscale spin waves remain significant challenges, as their intrinsic dispersion relations are primarily determined by magnetic dipole and exchange interactions. Here we report the first observed coexistence of quantum spin wave excitation and single-molecule magnet behavior in a mixed chromium(III) and dysprosium(III) complex, namely Dy
Cr
(
-F)(mdea)
(piv)
, which shows a large ferrimagnetic ground moment with a restricted quantum tunneling gap (
3.8 
10
cm
) up to nine levels, leading to an axial anisotropic energy barrier of 12 cm and opened hysteresis loop at 0.4 K.
Rajeev, H. S.*; Hu, X.*; Chen, W.-L.*; Zhang, D.*; Chen, T.*; 古府 麻衣子*; 梶本 亮一; 中村 充孝; Chen, A. Z.*; Johnson, G. C.*; et al.
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 94(3), p.034602_1 - 034602_14, 2025/03
被引用回数：0 パーセンタイル：0.00(Physics, Multidisciplinary)Two-dimensional hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites (HOIPs) have emerged as promising materials for light-emitting diode applications. In this study, by using time-of-flight neutron spectroscopy we identified and quantitatively separated the lattice vibrational and molecular rotational dynamics of two perovskites, butylammonium lead iodide (BA)PbI and phenethyl-ammonium lead iodide (PEA)PbI. By examining the corresponding temperature dependence, we found that the lattice vibrations, as evidenced by neutron spectra, are consistent with the lattice dynamics obtained from Raman scattering. We revealed that the rotational dynamics of organic molecules in these materials tend to suppress their photoluminescence quantum yield (PLQY) while the vibrational dynamics did not show predominant correlations with the same. Additionally, we observed photoluminescence emission peak splitting for both systems, which becomes prominent above certain critical temperatures where the suppression of PLQY begins. This study suggests that the rotational motions of polarized molecules may lead to a reduction in exciton binding energy or the breaking of degeneracy in exciton binding energy levels, enhancing non-radiative recombination rates, and consequently reducing photoluminescence yield. These findings offer a deeper understanding of fundamental interactions in 2D HOIPs and could guide the design of more efficient light-emitting materials for advanced technological applications.
with geometrically frustrated orthogonal antiferromagnetic dimer目時 直人; 山内 宏樹; 萩原 雅人; 綿貫 竜太*; 河村 聖子; 古府 麻衣子*; 中島 健次; 松田 雅昌*
Physical Review B, 111(10), p.104424_1 - 104424_9, 2025/03
被引用回数：0 パーセンタイル：0.00(Materials Science, Multidisciplinary)フラストレートしたシャストリ・サザランド格子を有するNdBの磁気転移を理解する目的で中性子非弾性散乱実験を行った。
と
による準四重項状態が磁気秩序相で4つに分裂する。スペクトルは磁気相互作用
、磁気
と四極子
の結合、そして一軸的な結晶場により説明される。この
電子状態により、主たる秩序変数である面内磁気モーメント
と結く誘起された2次的な秩序変数
を説明することができた。幾何学的フラストレーションによってハイゼンベルグ相互作用が打ち消し合う状況で、磁気と四極子の結合が本質的な役割をすることが明らかになった。
Liu, P.-F.*; Li, X.*; Li, J.*; Zhu, J.*; Tong, Z.*; 古府 麻衣子*; 楡井 真実; Xu, J.*; Yin, W.*; Wang, F.*; et al.
National Science Review, 11(12), p.nwae216_1 - nwae216_10, 2024/12
被引用回数：12 パーセンタイル：91.22(Multidisciplinary Sciences)Crystalline solids exhibiting inherently low lattice thermal conductivity (
) are of great importance in applications such as thermoelectrics and thermal barrier coatings. However, cannot be arbitrarily low and is limited by the minimum thermal conductivity related to phonon dispersions. In this work, we report the liquid-like thermal transport in a well-ordered crystalline CsAg
Te
, which exhibits an extremely low value of 
0.18 WmK. On the basis of first-principles calculations and inelastic neutron scattering measurements, we find that there are lots of low-lying optical phonon modes at 3.1 meV hosting the avoided-crossing behavior with acoustic phonons. These strongly localized modes are accompanied by weakly bound rattling Ag atoms with thermally induced large amplitudes of vibrations. Using the two-channel model, we demonstrate that coupling of the particle-like phonon modes and the heat-carrying wave-like phonons is essential for understanding the low , which is heavily deviated from the 
temperature dependence of the standard Peierls theory. In addition, our analysis indicates that the soft structural framework with liquid-like motions of the fluctuating Ag atoms is the underlying cause that leads to the suppression of the heat conduction in CsAgTe. These factors synergistically account for the ultralow value. Our results demonstrate that the liquid-like heat transfer could indeed exist in a well-ordered crystal.
楡井 真実; 古府 麻衣子; 中島 健次; 菊地 龍弥*; 河村 聖子; 村井 直樹; 原田 正英; 稲村 泰弘
Journal of Neutron Research, 26(2-3), p.75 - 82, 2024/09
We investigated neutron flux at a sample position and energy resolution of a direct-geometry disk-chopper spectrometer AMATERAS under various chopper conditions and compared them with simulations and calculations. The measured flux was comparable to other similar spectrometers with high flux. The resolution when using a pulse-shaping chopper was in close agreement with the analytical calculations, including the thickness of the disk chopper, the sample size, and the penetration depth into the detector. It is found that the chopper, placed at the intermediate distance of the primary spectrometer, works as a pulse shaper that optimizes the flux and resolution below the incident energy of 10 meV.
秋葉 宙*; 大政 義典*; 古府 麻衣子*; Zhang, M.*; 佐藤 駿*; 山室 修*
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 93(9), p.091010_1 - 091010_6, 2024/09
被引用回数：0 パーセンタイル：0.00(Physics, Multidisciplinary)AGNES is a direct geometry chopper-type time-of-flight neutron spectrometer installed at the cold neutron guide (C3-1-1) of JRR-3 (Tokai, Japan). This instrument is well-suited for studies on low-energy excitations of powdered and amorphous samples, and quasi-elastic scattering with an energy resolution of 120 
eV (standard mode) or 50 eV (high-resolution mode). During the long shutdown period of JRR-3 due to the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011, AGNES was significantly improved through the installation of supermirror-coated neutron guide tubes and collimator, installation of a new-type top-loading cryo-furnace, and renewal of data acquisition electronics and software. As a result, the neutron intensity has increased by 7.7 times in the standard mode and by 3.2 times in the high-resolution mode. These enhancements facilitate experiments with small amounts of samples, and under special environments, which have previously been challenging.
松浦 直人*; Zhang, J.*; 上村 祥史*; 古府 麻衣子; 枝川 圭一*
Physical Review Letters, 133(13), p.136101_1 - 136101_5, 2024/09
被引用回数：1 パーセンタイル：48.32(Physics, Multidisciplinary)In quasicrystals lacking translational symmetry but having highly ordered structures, understanding how phonons propagate in their aperiodic lattices remains an unsolved issue. We present an inelastic neutron scattering study on acoustic phonon modes of icosahedral quasicrystal AlPdMn, revealing hierarchical pseudo-gap structure in low-energy acoustic modes. Additionally, phonon intensities are asymmetric in energy and wave vectors with respect to the Bragg peak, indicating characteristic nonreciprocal phonon propagation in quasicrystals.
Zeng, Z.*; Zhou, C.*; Zhou, H.*; Han, L.*; Chi, R.*; Li, K.*; 古府 麻衣子; 中島 健次; Wei, Y.*; Zhang, W.*; et al.
Nature Physics, 20(7), p.1097 - 1102, 2024/07
被引用回数：10 パーセンタイル：94.36(Physics, Multidisciplinary)Emergent quasiparticles with a Dirac dispersion in condensed matter systems can be described by the Dirac equation for relativistic electrons, in analogy with Dirac particles in high-energy physics. For example, electrons with a Dirac dispersion have been intensively studied in electronic systems such as graphene and topological insulators. However, charge is not a prerequisite for Dirac fermions, and the emergence of Dirac fermions without a charge degree of freedom has been theoretically predicted to be realized in Dirac quantum spin liquids. These quasiparticles carry a spin of 1/2 but are charge-neutral and so are called spinons. Here we show that the spin excitations of a kagome antiferromagnet, YCu(OD)
Br
[Br
(OD)
], are conical with a spin continuum inside, which is consistent with the convolution of two Dirac spinons. The predictions of a Dirac spin liquid model with a spinon velocity obtained from spectral measurements are in agreement with the low-temperature specific heat of the sample. Our results, thus, provide spectral evidence for a Dirac quantum spin liquid state emerging in this kagome lattice antiferromagnet. However, the locations of the conical spin excitations differ from those calculated by the nearest-neighbor Heisenberg model, suggesting the Dirac spinons have an unexpected origin.
-MgAgSbLi, J.*; Li, X.*; Zhang, Y.*; Zhu, J.*; Zhao, E.*; 古府 麻衣子; 中島 健次; Avdeev, M.*; Liu, P.-F.*; Sui, J.*; et al.
Applied Physics Reviews (Internet), 11(1), p.011406_1 - 011406_8, 2024/03
被引用回数：7 パーセンタイル：91.57(Physics, Applied)The desire for intrinsically low lattice thermal conductivity (
) in thermoelectrics motivates numerous efforts on understanding the microscopic mechanisms of heat transport in solids. Here, based on theoretical calculations, we demonstrate that -MgAgSb hosts low-energy localized phonon bands and avoided crossing of the rattler modes, which coincides with the inelastic neutron scattering result. Using the two-channel lattice dynamical approach, we find, besides the conventional contribution (70% at 300 K) from particlelike phonons propagating, the coherence contribution dominated by the wavelike tunneling of phonons accounts for 30% of total at 300 K. By considering dual contributions, our calculated room-temperature of 0.64 WmK well agrees with the experimental value of 0.63 WmK. More importantly, our computations give a nonstandard 
dependence, perfectly explaining the abnormal temperature-trend of 
in experiment for -MgAgSb. By molecular dynamics simulation, we reveal that the structure simultaneously has soft crystalline sublattices with the metavalent bonding and fluctuating liquid-like sublattices with thermally induced large amplitude vibrations. These diverse forms of chemical bonding arouse mixed part-crystal part-liquid state, scatter strongly heat-carrying phonons, and finally produce extremely low . The fundamental research from this study will accelerate the design of ultralow- materials for energy-conversion applications.
篠原 佑也*; 岩下 拓哉*; 中西 真大*; Osti, N. C.*; 古府 麻衣子; 楡井 真実; Dmowski, W.*; 江上 毅*
Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 128(6), p.1544 - 1549, 2024/02
被引用回数：2 パーセンタイル：51.25(Chemistry, Physical)Improving the proton transport in polymer electrolytes impacts the performance of next-generation solid-state batteries. However, little is known about proton conductivity in nonaqueous systems due to the lack of an appropriate level of fundamental understanding. Here, we studied the proton transport in small molecules with dynamic hydrogen bonding, 1,2,3-triazole, as a model system of proton hopping in a nonaqueous environment using incoherent quasi-elastic neutron scattering. By using the jump-diffusion model, we identified the elementary jump-diffusion motion of protons at a much shorter length scale than those by nuclear magnetic resonance and impedance spectroscopy for the estimated long-range diffusion. In addition, a spatially restricted diffusive motion was observed, indicating that proton motion in 1,2,3-triazole is complex with various local correlated dynamics. These correlated dynamics will be important in elucidating the nature of the proton dynamics in nonaqueous systems.
古府 麻衣子; 河村 聖子; 村井 直樹; 石井 梨恵子*; 平井 大悟郎*; 有馬 寛*; 舟越 賢一*
Physical Review Research (Internet), 6(1), p.013006_1 - 013006_9, 2024/01
We revisited spin dynamics in archetypical classical spin glass systems, such as Cu
Mn
(
, 0.034, and 0.067) dilute alloys and iron aluminosilicate glass using a modern neutron scattering spectrometer with high neutron flux. The former is crystalline, and the latter is amorphous, where their spin glass state is well separated from magnetically ordered phases. Bose-scaled localized magnetic excitations were observed in both compounds below the spin-freezing temperature (
). The spectrum exhibits a maximum at low energy and a broad tail on the high-energy side. The excitation energy tends to be higher for the material with a higher . Above the , the spectrum considerably changes with temperature, thereby indicating the emergence of the magnetic relaxation process. The magnetic excitation in the spin glass state has much in common with the boson peak in structural glasses. We consider that the Bose-scaled broad excitation peak is an elementary excitation inherent in disordered systems.
SnSe
Ren, Q.*; Gupta, M. K.*; Jin, M.*; Ding, J.*; Wu, J.*; Chen, Z.*; Lin, S.*; Fabelo, O.*; Rodriguez-Velamazan, J. A.*; 古府 麻衣子; et al.
Nature Materials, 22(8), p.999 - 1006, 2023/08
被引用回数：76 パーセンタイル：99.20(Chemistry, Physical)Ultralow thermal conductivity and fast ionic diffusion endow superionic materials with excellent performance both as thermoelectric converters and as solid-state electrolytes. Yet the correlation and interdependence between these two features remain unclear owing to a limited understanding of their complex atomic dynamics. Here we investigate ionic diffusion and lattice dynamics in argyrodite AgSnSe using synchrotron X-ray and neutron scattering techniques along with machine-learned molecular dynamics. We identify a critical interplay of the vibrational dynamics of mobile Ag and a host framework that controls the overdamping of low-energy Ag-dominated phonons into a quasi-elastic response, enabling superionicity. Concomitantly, the persistence of long-wavelength transverse acoustic phonons across the superionic transition challenges a proposed 'liquid-like thermal conduction' picture. Rather, a striking thermal broadening of low-energy phonons, starting even below 50 K, reveals extreme phonon anharmonicity and weak bonding as underlying features of the potential energy surface responsible for the ultralow thermal conductivity ( 0.5 WmK) and fast diffusion. Our results provide fundamental insights into the complex atomic dynamics in superionic materials for energy conversion and storage.
巽 一厳; 奥平 琢也*; 古府 麻衣子; Rozyczko, P.*
Journal of Physics; Condensed Matter, 36(37), p.375901_1 - 375901_13, 2023/06
被引用回数：0 パーセンタイル：0.00(Physics, Condensed Matter)This study re-evaluates the theoretical approach to analyzing inelastic neutron spectra of hydrogen-containing metals and intermetallic compounds. Previously, these analyses utilized hydrogen quantum nuclear states, modeled as solutions to the Schr
dinger equation. The potential surfaces in these models were approximated from the total energies derived from first-principles electronic structure calculations. The current study improves upon this method by employing more efficient and accurate treatments for sampling the potential surface. It utilizes symmetrically irreducible sampling points arranged on densely populated mesh grids for the first-principles calculations. A comparative analysis of the theoretical predictions with experimental spectra for hydrides of TiSb and TiSb, as well as a LaNi
hydrogen primary solid solution, demonstrates that this approach is promising for elucidating the unknown local environments of hydrogen atoms in systems where the approximate potential well describes the hydrogen quantum states.
dynamics in the H conductors LaH
O玉造 博夢; 福井 慧賀*; 飯村 壮史*; 本田 孝志*; 多田 朋史*; 村上 洋一*; 山浦 淳一*; 倉本 義夫*; 佐賀山 基*; 山田 武*; et al.
Physical Review B, 107(18), p.184114_1 - 184114_8, 2023/05
被引用回数：1 パーセンタイル：13.37(Materials Science, Multidisciplinary)Using an incoherent quasi-elastic neutron scattering (QENS) technique, we investigate H dynamics in a series of oxyhydrides LaHO that exhibit characteristic high H conductivity. In the end member LaH (
= 0), two kinds of H dynamics are identified: the jump diffusion and the localized motion. The jump length in the jump diffusion mode increases with increasing 
. The localized motion is identified as a jump between the two inequivalent sites. These dynamics are corroborated by our molecular dynamical simulations. Our QENS data suggest that similar H dynamics occurs also in oxyhydrides LaHO ( 
0), whose H concentration dependence is consistent with the previous measurement of ionic conductivity. We also discuss the possibility that LaHO is an example of H ion conductors governed by the concerted migration mechanism. The identified H dynamics is a key to understanding the anomalous hydrogen concentration dependence of the diffusion coefficient in lanthanum hydrides, which has been a longstanding mystery in this compound.
point group symmetry (M(II) = Zn(II) and Mg(II))増田 優花*; 阪田 潮実*; 萱原 早織*; 入江 夏生*; 古府 麻衣子; 河野 洋平*; 榊原 俊郎*; 堀井 洋司*; 梶原 孝志*
Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 127(6), p.3295 - 3306, 2023/02
被引用回数：4 パーセンタイル：32.83(Chemistry, Physical)Trinuclear M(II)-Gd(III)-M(II) complexes 1 (M = Zn), 2 (M = Mg), and the magnetically dilute sample 1' were synthesized and the slow magnetization relaxation originating from Gd(III) ions was investigated in detail. These complexes are crystallographically isostructural and belong to point group symmetry, with M-Gd-M arrayed on the crystallographic 3-fold axis. From the angular-resolved magnetization of a single crystal of 1, an easy-axis-type magnetic anisotropy of Gd(III) with an anisotropy parameter D of -0.21(3) K were revealed. All the complexes underwent slow relaxation under the application of an external magnetic field. The temperature dependence of the relaxation rate 
differed considerably between 1' and 1, 2. The discrepancy can be attributed to the presence of competing multiple relaxation processes, such as direct and Raman processes, and at dilution, the direct process becomes faster, leading to its predominance in 1'. For 1 and 2, the larger power number (~1.5) was attributed to the significantly greater contribution from the Raman process, which may be originated from intramolecular atomic vibrations.
Wu, P.*; 村井 直樹; Li, T.*; 梶本 亮一; 中村 充孝; 古府 麻衣子; 中島 健次; Xia, K.*; Peng, K.*; Zhang, Y.*; et al.
New Journal of Physics (Internet), 25(1), p.013032_1 - 013032_11, 2023/01
被引用回数：0 パーセンタイル：0.00(Physics, Multidisciplinary)The understanding of the lattice dynamics is essential for engineering the thermal transport properties in quantum materials. Based on the canonical point of view, acoustic phonons are believed to be the principal thermal carriers in heat flow. Here, in this work, optical phonons are elucidated to play a pivotal role in determining the lattice thermal conductivity in thermoelectric material SnS by using the state-of-the-art inelastic neutron scattering technique combined with first-principles calculations. Additionally, in contrast to acoustic phonons, optical phonons are observed to exhibit pronounced softening and broadening with temperature. Our observations not only shed light on the significance of the optical phonons in thermal transport but also provide a vital clue to suppress the propagation of optical phonons to optimize the thermoelectric performance of SnS.
BaCo(PO)Sheng, J.*; Wang, L.*; Candini, A.*; Jiang, W.*; Huang, L.*; Xi, B.*; Zhao, J.*; Ge, H.*; Zhao, N.*; Fu, Y.*; et al.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119(51), p.e2211193119_1 - e2211193119_9, 2022/12
被引用回数：30 パーセンタイル：93.24(Multidisciplinary Sciences)Although considerable progress has been made in the theoretical understanding of the low-dimensional frustrated quantum magnets, experimental realizations of a well-established scaling analysis are still scarce. This is particularly true for the two-dimensional antiferromagnetic triangular lattices. Owing to the small exchange strength, the newly discovered compound NaBaCo(PO) provides a rare opportunity for clarifying the quantum criticality in an ideal triangular lattice with quantum spin S=1/2. In addition to the establishment of the complete phase diagrams, the spin Hamiltonian with a negligible interplane interaction has been determined through the spin wave dispersion in the polarized state, which is consistent with the observation of a two-dimensional quantum critical point with the Bose-Einstein condensation of diluted free bosons.
O
左右田 稔*; 古府 麻衣子; 河村 聖子; 浅井 晋一郎*; 益田 隆嗣*; 吉沢 英樹*; 古川 はづき*
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 91(9), p.094707_1 - 094707_5, 2022/09
被引用回数：0 パーセンタイル：0.00(Physics, Multidisciplinary)The magnetic diffuse and the quasi-elastic scatterings of YBaCoO on alternating kagome and triangular lattices have been studied through neutron scattering measurement. In the wide temperature region, the quasi-elastic scattering is observed, and forms the hexagon shape by connecting the magnetic superlattice points. The quasi-elastic scattering has the strongest intensity and the sharp profile around the magnetic transition temperature. From the temperature dependence of the quasi-elastic scattering, the existence of the Z vortex transition is expected in YBaCoO.
巽 一厳; 稲村 泰弘; 古府 麻衣子; 鬼柳 亮嗣; 島崎 秀昭*
Journal of Applied Crystallography, 55(3), p.533 - 543, 2022/06
被引用回数：0 パーセンタイル：0.00(Chemistry, Multidisciplinary)神経物理学研究において不均一ポアソン過程に基づく観測データのヒストグラムのビン幅最適化が開発され[Shimazaki & Shinomoto (2007). Neural Comput. 19, 1503-1527]、後継研究[Muto et al. (2019). J. Phys. Soc. Jpn, 88, 044002]はその非弾性中性子散乱データへの応用が提唱された。本研究では、銅の単結晶を用いて異なる条件の飛行時間型計測で得られた非弾性中性子散乱の実験データにこの方法を適用し、その結果の正当性を検証した。与えられたデータにおける統計情報を異なる総カウント数のデータに外挿した結果は、それらの実際のデータでの最適なビン幅を精度よく予測した。最適化したビン幅でのヒストグラムはエネルギーおよび運動量の断面において次の二つの微細スペクトル構造の存在の有無を検視した。(1)フォノンバンドギャップの存在、(2)互いに隣接する複数のフォノンブランチの数。磁気励起の新奇な形態や講師熱伝導度に相関するフォノン状態等、物理や材料科学において重要なスペクトル構造を効果的かつ厳正に観測するのを今回適用した方法は助けることをこれは意味する。
-dependent collective relaxation dynamics of glass-forming liquid Ca
K
(NO)
investigated by wide-angle neutron spin-echoLuo, P.*; Zhai, Y.*; Falus, P.*; Garc
a Sakai, V.*; Hartl, M.*; 古府 麻衣子; 中島 健次; Faraone, A.*; Z, Y.*
Nature Communications (Internet), 13, p.2092_1 - 2092_9, 2022/04
被引用回数：10 パーセンタイル：73.92(Multidisciplinary Sciences)The relaxation behavior of glass formers exhibits spatial heterogeneity and dramatically changes upon cooling towards the glass transition. However, the underlying mechanisms of the dynamics at different microscopic length scales are not fully understood. We measured the -dependent coherent intermediate scattering function of a prototypical ionic glass former CaK(NO), in the highly viscous liquid state. In contrast to the structure modulated dynamics for 2.4 
, i.e., at and below the structure factor main peak, for 
2.4 , beyond the first minimum above the structure factor main peak, the stretching exponent exhibits no temperature dependence and concomitantly the relaxation time shows smaller deviations from Arrhenius behavior. This finding indicates a change in the dominant relaxation mechanisms around a characteristic length of 2.6 AA, below which the relaxation process exhibits a temperature independent distribution and more Arrhenius-like behavior.
