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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。
MnSiO
川又 雅広*; Pang, X.*; 村川 寛*; 河村 聖子; 中島 健次; 増田 英敏*; 藤田 全基*; 花咲 徳亮*; 小野瀬 佳文*; 南部 雄亮*
Physical Review Materials (Internet), 9(1), p.014407_1 - 014407_6, 2025/01
被引用回数：0 パーセンタイル：0.00(Materials Science, Multidisciplinary)Magnetic excitations in the noncentrosymmetric magnet SrMnSiO were investigated through inelastic neutron scattering measurements. Major magnetic excitations are limited up to the energy transfer of 0.5 meV, and two magnon branches under zero magnetic field were well explained in the framework of linear spinwave theory. The magnitudes of the square-lattice in-plane and interplane nearest-neighbor interactions, spin anisotropy term, and the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction are, respectively, estimated to be J
= 45.54(5) 
eV, J = 0.52(1) eV, = 4.98(11) eV, D
= 0.02(9) eV, and D
= 4.10(1) eV, and calculations using these parameters reproduce experimental data quite well. SrMnSiO appears to have the smallest energy scale among the melilite-type compounds, and the small J/J = 0.0114(2) indicates the strong two dimensionality.
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.
Zhu, L.*; He, H.*; Naeem, M.*; Sun, X.*; Qi, J.*; Liu, P.*; Harjo, S.; 中島 健次; Li, B.*; Wang, X.-L.*
Physical Review Letters, 133(12), p.126701_1 - 126701_6, 2024/09
被引用回数：1 パーセンタイル：53.15(Physics, Multidisciplinary)It has long been suspected that magnetism could play a vital role in the phase stability of multi- component high-entropy alloys. However, the nature of the magnetic order, if any, has remained elusive. Here, by using elastic and inelastic neutron scattering, we demonstrate evidence of antiferromagnetic order below 
80 K and strong spin fluctuations persisting to room temperature in a single-phase face-centered cubic (fcc) CrMnFeCoNi high-entropy alloy. Despite the chemical complexity, the magnetic structure in CrMnFeCoNi can be described as 
-Mn-like, with the magnetic moments confined in alternating (001) planes and pointing toward the 
111
direction. Combined with first-principles calculation results, it is shown that the antiferromagnetic order and spin fluctuations help stabilized the fcc phase in CrMnFeCoNi high-entropy alloy.
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：8 パーセンタイル：95.43(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：92.96(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 Wm
K 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.
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：72 パーセンタイル：99.21(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.
橋本 俊輔*; 山口 聡*; 原田 雅史*; 中島 健次; 菊地 龍弥*; 大石 一城*
Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 638, p.475 - 486, 2023/05
被引用回数：8 パーセンタイル：61.29(Chemistry, Physical)最近、粒子分率から計算される理論的に予測された値と比較して、ベース液体と分散された固体ナノ粒子で構成されるナノ流体の熱伝導率の異常な改善が報告されている。一般に、気体と液体の熱伝導率の値は、並進運動中の分子の平均自由行程によって支配される。ここでは、ナノ粒子の周りの液体分子の振動挙動がこれらの熱伝導率の増加に寄与している可能性を示す確かな証拠を提示する。
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.
Rh
Sn
岩佐 和晃*; Suyama, Kazuya*; 河村 聖子; 中島 健次; Raymond, S.*; Steffens, P.*; Yamada, Akira*; 松田 達磨*; 青木 勇二*; 川崎 郁斗; et al.
Physical Review Materials (Internet), 7(1), p.014201_1 - 014201_11, 2023/01
被引用回数：4 パーセンタイル：34.64(Materials Science, Multidisciplinary)The spin dynamics, crystalline-electric-field (CEF) level scheme, specific heat, and X-ray photoemission spectra (XPS) of CeRhSn were investigated, which exhibits anomalous semimetal transport in the chiral crystallographic phase. CEF excitations observed at approximately 7 and 39 meV are consistent with the two inequivalent Ce-ion cites in the chiral structure. Because of broader CEF excitations and a strong 4
peak at the Fermi level in the Ce 4 on-resonance spectrum, the hybridized Ce 4 electrons contribute to the semimetal carriers. In addition, the spin fluctuation associated with the Kramers doublet ground state is characterized by the peak located at 0.15 meV. The electronic state involving the spin fluctuation causes the 
behavior of specific heat below 0.6 K, which is attributed to linear dispersion relations of electrons of the Weyl Kondo semimetal in the chiral-lattice symmetry.
中島 健次; 菊地 龍弥*; 河村 聖子; 神原 理*
EPJ Web of Conferences, 272, p.02012_1 - 02012_8, 2022/11
パルス源の冷中性子チョッパー分光計であるAMATEASで、単一測定条件での時間枠を増やす試みのいくつかを紹介する。方法の1つは、飛行時間図で介在する軌道を許可することにより、
で選択可能な使用可能な幅を増やすことができるということである。われわれの経験に基づいて、パルス源でのチョッパー分光計でのパルス繰り返し周波数増倍に基づく多色測定の条件について説明する。広帯域多色測定の最適化と一般化された定式化された条件が提案される。既存の分光計および最適化されたチョッパー分光計の基準設計へのわれわれのアイデアの適用についても説明し、パルス整形チョッパーを変更することによって効率を改善するさらなる可能性を示唆する。
-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：72.05(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.
Mattan, K.*; 小野 俊雄*; 河村 聖子; 中島 健次; 南部 雄亮*; 佐藤 卓*
Physical Review B, 105(13), p.134403_1 - 134403_8, 2022/04
被引用回数：4 パーセンタイル：35.53(Materials Science, Multidisciplinary)スピン1/2のカゴメ格子反強磁性体CsCuSnF
の磁気励起について、高分解能飛行時間法中性子非弾性散乱実験によって調べた。フラストレートしたカゴメ格子反強磁性体に特徴的な平坦なモードや低エネルギー側の強い分散を持つモードは線形スピン波理論で記述できる。しかし、一方で、9-14meVの領域にある分散を持つ強度の弱い3つのモードについてはそれが破綻する。この3つのモードについては、ゾーン中心から離れるか温度を上げるかすると自由スピノンに崩壊して連続励起になる2スピノン束縛状態と思われる。
-type PbSRathore, E.*; Juneja, R.*; Sarkar, D.*; Roychowdhury, S.*; 古府 麻衣子; 中島 健次; Singh, A. K.*; Biswas, K.*
Materials Today Energy (Internet), 24, p.100953_1 - 100953_9, 2022/03
被引用回数：19 パーセンタイル：80.41(Chemistry, Physical)We demonstrate a high thermoelectric figure of merit (zT) of 1.45 at 900 K for Ge doped (4-10 mol%) -type PbS, which is the one of the highest values among all -type PbS-based thermoelectric materials. This high performance is achieved by simultaneous (a) enhancement of covalency in chemical bonding which increases the electrical conductivity, and (b) reduction of lattice thermal conductivity to an ultra-low value of 0.56 W mK at 900 K by the introduction of nanometer-sized (5-10 nm) precipitates of PbGeS in PbS matrix which strongly scatter the heat-carrying phonons. The presence of low-lying transverse acoustic (TA) and longitudinal acoustic (LA) phonon modes at 48.24 cm and 91.83 cm, respectively are experimentally revealed from inelastic neutron scattering (INS) experiments. The softening of low-frequency modes at a higher temperature and ultra-short phonon lifetime (1-4.5 ps) further explain the ultra-low thermal conductivity.
Yang, J.*; Ren, W.*; Zhao, X.*; 菊地 龍弥*; Miao, P.*; 中島 健次; Li, B.*; Zhang, Z.*
Journal of Materials Science & Technology, 99, p.55 - 60, 2022/02
被引用回数：11 パーセンタイル：54.87(Materials Science, Multidisciplinary)物性測定と中性子散乱を組み合わせることにより、面心立方高エントロピー合金CrMnFeCoNiの磁気および熱輸送特性を調べた。DCおよびAC帯磁率は、温度領域全体で反強磁性および強磁性相互作用が共存する常磁性挙動を示し、それぞれ、常磁性から反強磁性への遷移、反強磁性から強磁性への遷移、およびスピン凍結に対応して、約80, 50、および20Kで3つの異常が見られる。電気伝導率と熱伝導率はNiに比べて大幅に低下しており、格子熱伝導率の温度依存性はガラスのようなプラトーを示す。非弾性中性子散乱測定は弱い非調和性を示唆し、熱輸送は欠陥散乱によって支配されると思われる。
CoTeO; A Composite system of isolated spin-
triangular Heisenberg-like and frustrated honeycomb Ising-like antiferromagnets児島 佑樹*; 栗田 伸之*; 田中 秀数*; 中島 健次
Physical Review B, 105(2), p.L020408_1 - L020408_6, 2022/01
被引用回数：5 パーセンタイル：43.36(Materials Science, Multidisciplinary)二次元性の良いスピン1/2Heisenberg三角格子反強磁性体を含むBaCoTeOの磁気励起を中性子散乱を用いて観測した。BaCoTeOの磁気モデルは2つの独立した二次元系スピン1/2Heisenberg三角格子反強磁性体とIsing的J1-J2-J3ハニカム格子反強磁性体で捉えることができる。三角格子に由来する励起スペクトルは線形スピン波理論の分散関係とは異なり、複数のロトンライクミニマムを持つ。これはフェルミオニックスピノンを用いた計算によって示される結果と類似している。ハニカム格子に由来する分散関係は高エネルギー領域に現われ、線形スピン波理論で捉えることができた。
橋本 俊輔*; 中島 健次; 菊地 龍弥*; 蒲沢 和也*; 柴田 薫; 山田 武*
Journal of Molecular Liquids, 342, p.117580_1 - 117580_8, 2021/11
被引用回数：4 パーセンタイル：24.71(Chemistry, Physical)エチレングリコール水溶液中に二酸化ケイ素(SiO)ナノ粒子を分散したナノ流体の準弾性中性子散乱測定(QENS)およびパルス磁場勾配核磁気共鳴分析(PFGNMR)を行った。研究目的は、このナノ流体の熱伝導率が理論値を超えて増加するメカニズムを解明することだった。得られた実験結果は、SiOナノ粒子の周りの液体分子の運動が非常に制限されているため、SiOナノ粒子の添加により、エチレングリコール水溶液中の液体分子の自己拡散係数が低下していることを示す。そして温度一定の条件で、SiOナノ流体中で、液体分子の自己拡散係数が減少するにつれて、熱伝導率が増加した。
大熊 隆太郎*; 古府 麻衣子; 浅井 晋一郎*; Avdeev, M.*; 幸田 章宏*; 岡部 博孝*; 平石 雅俊*; 竹下 聡史*; 小嶋 健児*; 門野 良典*; et al.
Nature Communications (Internet), 12, p.4382_1 - 4382_7, 2021/07
被引用回数：10 パーセンタイル：62.51(Multidisciplinary Sciences)Dimensionality is a critical factor in determining the properties of solids and is an apparent built- in character of the crystal structure. However, it can be an emergent and tunable property in geometrically frustrated spin systems. Here, we study the spin dynamics of the tetrahedral cluster antiferromagnet, pharmacosiderite, via muon spin resonance and neutron scattering. We find that the spin correlation exhibits a two-dimensional characteristic despite the isotropic connectivity of tetrahedral clusters made of spin 5/2 Fe
ions in the three-dimensional cubic crystal, which we ascribe to two-dimensionalisation by geometrical frustration based on spin wave calculations. Moreover, we suggest that even one-dimensionalisation occurs in the decoupled layers, generating low-energy and one-dimensional excitation modes, causing large spin fluctuation in the classical spin system.
古府 麻衣子; 綿貫 竜太*; 榊原 俊郎*; 河村 聖子; 中島 健次; 松浦 直人*; 上木 岳士*; 阿久津 和宏*; 山室 修*
Scientific Reports (Internet), 11(1), p.12098_1 - 12098_8, 2021/06
被引用回数：8 パーセンタイル：55.19(Multidisciplinary Sciences)Glassy magnetic behavior has been observed in a wide range of crystalline magnetic materials called spin glass. Here, we report spin glass behavior in a structural glass of a magnetic ionic liquid, C4mimFeCl. Magnetization measurements demonstrate that an antiferromagnetic ordering occurs at 
= 2.3 K in the crystalline state, while a spin glass transition occurs at 
= 0.4 K in the structural glass state. In addition, localized magnetic excitations were found in the spin glass state by inelastic neutron scattering, in contrast to spin-wave excitations in the ordered phase of the crystalline sample. The localized excitation was scaled by the Bose population factor below and gradually disappeared above . This feature is highly reminiscent of boson peaks commonly observed in structural glasses. We suggest the "magnetic" boson peak to be one of the inherent dynamics of a spin glass state.
中川 洋; 米谷 佳晃*; 中島 健次; 河村 聖子; 菊地 龍弥*; 稲村 泰弘; 片岡 幹雄*; 河野 秀俊*
JPS Conference Proceedings (Internet), 33, p.011101_1 - 011101_6, 2021/03
5'CGCG
CGCG'3 and 5'CGCG
CGCG'3のDNAについて、軽水と重水のコントラストを利用した中性子準弾性散乱による水和水ダイナミクスを測定した。この2つのDNAは計算機によってそれぞれ硬い分子と柔らかい分子であることが分かっている。どちらの配列も約240KにDNAと水和水のどちらも動力学転移が観測された。転移温度以上では、水和水の平均自乗変位は硬い配列の方が小さかった。また水和水の緩和時間は硬いほうが長かった。ピコ秒時間スケールの水和水ダイナミクスは配列依存的なDNAの硬さと関係していることを示唆した。
