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Haga, Yoshinori; Opletal, P.; Tokiwa, Yoshifumi; Yamamoto, Etsuji; Tokunaga, Yo; Kambe, Shinsaku; Sakai, Hironori
Journal of Physics; Condensed Matter, 34(17), p.175601_1 - 175601_7, 2022/04
Tokunaga, Yo; Sakai, Hironori; Kambe, Shinsaku; Haga, Yoshinori; Tokiwa, Yoshifumi; Opletal, P.; Fujibayashi, Hiroyuki*; Kinjo, Katsuki*; Kitagawa, Shunsaku*; Ishida, Kenji*; et al.
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 91(2), p.023707_1 - 023707_5, 2022/02
Te NMR experiments in field (
) applied along the easy magnetization axis (the
-axis) revealed slow electronic dynamics developing in the paramagnetic state of UTe
. The observed slow fluctuations are concerned with a successive growth of long-range electronic correlations below 30
40 K, where the spin susceptibility along the hard magnetization axis (the
-axis) shows a broad maximum. The experiments also imply that tiny amounts of disorder or defects locally disturb the long-range electronic correlations and develop an inhomogeneous electronic state at low temperatures, leading to a low temperature upturn observed in the bulk-susceptibility in
. We suggest that UTe
would be located on the paramagnetic side near an electronic phase boundary, where either the magnetic or Fermi-surface instability would be the origin of the characteristic fluctuations.
Kimura, Kenta*; Yagi, Naoki*; Hasegawa, Shunsuke*; Hagihara, Masato; Miyake, Atsushi*; Tokunaga, Masashi*; Cao, H.*; Masuda, Takatsugu*; Kimura, Tsuyoshi*
Inorganic Chemistry, 60(20), p.15078 - 15084, 2021/10
Sakai, Hironori; Tokunaga, Yo; Kambe, Shinsaku; Zhu, J.-X.*; Ronning, F.*; Thompson, J. D.*; Ramakrishna, S. K.*; Reyes, A. P.*; Suzuki, Kohei*; Oshima, Yoshiki*; et al.
Physical Review B, 104(8), p.085106_1 - 085106_12, 2021/08
Antiferromagnetism in a prototypical quantum critical metal CeCoIn is known to be induced by slight substitutions of non-magnetic Zn atoms for In. In nominally 7% Zn substituted CeCoIn
, an antiferromagnetic (AFM) state coexists with heavy fermion superconductivity. Heterogeneity of the electronic states is investigated in Zn doped CeCoIn
by means of nuclear quadrupole and magnetic resonances (NQR and NMR). Site-dependent NQR relaxation rates
indicate that the AFM state is locally nucleated around Zn substituents in the matrix of a heavy fermion state, and percolates through the bulk at the AFM transition temperature
. At lower temperatures, an anisotropic superconducting (SC) gap below the SC transition temperature
, and the SC state permeates through the AFM regions via a SC proximity effect. Applying an external magnetic field induces a spin-flop transition near 5 T, reducing the volume of the AFM regions. Consequently, a short ranged inhomogeneous AFM state survives and coexists with a paramagnetic Fermi liquid state at high fields.
Matsumoto, Yuji*; Haga, Yoshinori; Yamamoto, Etsuji; Takeuchi, Tetsuya*; Miyake, Atsushi*; Tokunaga, Masashi*
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 90(7), p.074707_1 - 074707_6, 2021/07
Times Cited Count:0 Percentile:0(Physics, Multidisciplinary)Tokunaga, Kohei; Takahashi, Yoshio*; Tanaka, Kazuya; Kozai, Naofumi
Chemosphere, 266, p.129104_1 - 129104_10, 2021/03
Times Cited Count:1 Percentile:65.97(Environmental Sciences)Radioactive iodine (I) is of great concern owing to its high mobility in the environment and long-term radiotoxicity, but there is a lack of effective techniques for removing iodate (IO
) from aqueous solution. The aim of this study is to develop a new technique for removing radioactive iodate from contaminated solution by using barite (BaSO
). In the present study, we examined the coprecipitation mechanism of iodate by barite at the molecular level for determining optimum conditions for iodate removal. The results showed that iodate was effectively removed from aqueous solution by coprecipitation, even in the presence of competitive anions in solution. Comparing our method with previous studies, iodate removal efficiency by barite was determined to be about two orders of magnitude greater than that by hydrotalcite-like layered double hydroxide at Cl
concentration of 10 mmol L
. Extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) analysis indicated that incorporated iodate was strongly bound in the crystal lattice of barite by substituting the sulfate site in the structure when the iodine concentration was low. The charge compensation problem from the IO
substitution in SO
site is achieved by the substitution of Na
-IO
pairs at the nearest Ba
site. Therefore, considering high removal efficiency and strong binding of iodate in barite, coprecipitation with barite is a promising material for removing radioactive iodate from various aqueous solutions contaminated with iodate.
Sakai, Hironori; Matsumoto, Yuji*; Haga, Yoshinori; Tokunaga, Yo; Kambe, Shinsaku
Physical Review B, 103(8), p.085114_1 - 085114_8, 2021/02
Times Cited Count:0 Percentile:0(Materials Science, Multidisciplinary)The microscopic origin of a magnetic phase diagram under pressure in a heavy fermion antiferromagnet CeRhSi
was investigated using the
Si nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) technique. We investigated the temperature and pressure dependencies of
-independent local fluctuations caused by the single-site Kondo effect. A universal scaling behavior observed on the energy scale of the local fluctuations in an entire pressure region demonstrates that a characteristic energy scale
of Kondo interactions monotonically increases by applying pressure without a critical anomaly around the quantum critical pressure
of antiferromagnetism. Our NMR result agrees with the Doniach picture of the heavy-fermion phase diagram, where the progressive delocalization of the
-electrons occurs across
, accompanied by the development of antiferromagnetic correlations among the
-electrons.
Ueda, Yuki; Kikuchi, Kei*; Tokunaga, Kohei; Sugita, Tsuyoshi; Aoyagi, Noboru; Tanaka, Kazuya; Okamura, Hiroyuki
Solvent Extraction and Ion Exchange, 39(5-6), p.491 - 511, 2021/00
Times Cited Count:0 Percentile:0(Chemistry, Multidisciplinary)no abstracts in English
Kuroda, Kenta*; Arai, Yosuke*; Rezaei, N.*; Kunisada, So*; Sakuragi, Shunsuke*; Alaei, M.*; Kinoshita, Yuto*; Bareille, C.*; Noguchi, Ryo*; Nakayama, Mitsuhiro*; et al.
Nature Communications (Internet), 11, p.2888_1 - 2888_9, 2020/06
Times Cited Count:3 Percentile:42.38(Multidisciplinary Sciences)Sakai, Hironori; Tokunaga, Yo; Haga, Yoshinori; Kambe, Shinsaku; Ramakrishna, S. K.*; Reyes, A. P.*; Rosa, P. F. S.*; Ronning, F.*; Thompson, J. D.*; Fisk, Z.*; et al.
JPS Conference Proceedings (Internet), 30, p.011169_1 - 011169_6, 2020/03
Uranium disulfide -US
showing a semimetal-to-semiconductor crossover has been investigated by the nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) technique for
S nuclei with the nuclear spin of
. Since the natural concentration 0.76% of NMR active
S nuclei is too dilute, the isotopic enrichment to
50% has been carried out for the single crystal growth. The
S NMR spectra have been successfully obtained using a single crystal of
-US
with external fields along the crystallographic
axis. The S sites assignments have been made based on these NMR spectra.
Tokunaga, Yo; Sakai, Hironori; Kambe, Shinsaku; Hattori, Taisuke; Higa, Nonoka; Nakamine, Genki*; Kitagawa, Shunsaku*; Ishida, Kenji*; Nakamura, Ai*; Shimizu, Yusei*; et al.
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 88(7), p.073701_1 - 073701_4, 2019/07
Times Cited Count:29 Percentile:95.25(Physics, Multidisciplinary)We report Te-NMR studies on a newly discovered heavy fermion superconductor UTe
. Using a single crystal, we have measured the
Te-NMR Knight shift
and spin-lattice relaxation rate
for fields along the three orthorhombic crystal axes. The data confirm a moderate Ising anisotropy for both the static (
) and dynamical susceptibilities (
) in the paramagnetic state above about 20 K. Around 20 K, however, we have observed a sudden loss of NMR spin-echo signal due to sudden enhancement of the NMR spin-spin relaxation rate
, when the field is applied along the easy axis of magnetization (=
axis). This behavior suggests the development of longitudinal magnetic fluctuations along the
axis at very low frequencies below 20 K.
Tang, J.*; Yamamoto, Susumu*; Koitaya, Takanori*; Yoshigoe, Akitaka; Tokunaga, Takuma*; Mukai, Kozo*; Matsuda, Iwao*; Yoshinobu, Jun*
Applied Surface Science, 480, p.419 - 426, 2019/06
Times Cited Count:2 Percentile:22.92(Chemistry, Physical)Mass transports during hydrogen adsorption and absorption processes of PdCu alloys that has advantages of higher hydrogen diffusivity and economically lower-cost than the other Pd-alloys were studied. The research was made with a comparison of the well-known ordered phase of the bcc structure (the B2 phase) and a mixed phase of the fcc and B2 structures. ultrahigh vacuum X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and ambient pressure X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy using synchrotron radiation were carried out to trace the chemical states of the Pd and Cu atoms as a function of temperatures. It is elucidated that the initial adsorption and absorption processes were similar in the two phases, but a hydrogen diffusion rate to the bulk was higher in the ordered phase than in the mixed one. We found the dynamics of the Pd and Cu atoms during the hydrogen adsorption/absorption processes largely depend on temperature. In the hydrogen atmosphere, the Pd atoms segregate at the surface below 373 K and Cu atoms segregate at the surface above 373 K. The present results agree well with the previous theoretical calculations and, thus, provide appropriate inputs toward developments of the hydrogen permeation materials.
Li, D. X.*; Honda, Fuminori*; Miyake, Atsushi*; Homma, Yoshiya*; Haga, Yoshinori; Nakamura, Ai*; Shimizu, Yusei*; Maurya, A.*; Sato, Yoshiki*; Tokunaga, Masashi*; et al.
Physical Review B, 99(5), p.054408_1 - 054408_9, 2019/02
Times Cited Count:2 Percentile:22.92(Materials Science, Multidisciplinary)Tokunaga, Yo; Orlova, A.*; Bruyant, N.*; Aoki, Dai*; Mayaffre, H.*; Krmer, S.*; Julien, M.-H.*; Berthier, C.*; Horvati
, M.*; Higa, Nonoka; et al.
Physical Review B, 99(8), p.085142_1 - 085142_5, 2019/02
Times Cited Count:3 Percentile:33.95(Materials Science, Multidisciplinary)The heavy-fermion antiferromagnet CeIn exhibits a field-induced anomaly associated with Fermi surface reconstruction at
45 T, well below the antiferromagnetic (AFM) critical field that exceeds 60 T. In order to explore the origin of this anomaly, we have measured
In NMR spectra in pulsed magnetic fields up to 56 T using high-quality single crystals. To within experimental resolution, we do not detect any change in the NMR spectra that could suggest a modification in either the character of the hyperfine field or the electric field gradient at In sites through
. This strongly suggests that the 45 T anomaly cannot be simply ascribed to a field-induced change in the magnetic structure of the AFM state.
Sakai, Hironori; Hattori, Taisuke; Tokunaga, Yo; Kambe, Shinsaku; Ueda, Hiroaki*; Tanioku, Yasuaki*; Michioka, Chishiro*; Yoshimura, Kazuyoshi*; Takao, Kenta*; Shimoda, Aiko*; et al.
Physical Review B, 98(6), p.064403_1 - 064403_10, 2018/08
Times Cited Count:6 Percentile:45.58(Materials Science, Multidisciplinary)To specify preferential occupation sites of Co substituents and to clarify charge and spin states of Co ions in (La, Co)-cosubstituted hexagonal magnetoplumbite-type (M-type) Sr ferrite, Fe and
Co nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectra are measured under zero and external magnetic fields using powdered and single crystalline specimens. To a considerable degree, the charge compensation between La
and Co
works in the equal (La, Co)-codoped case, where more than half of the Co ions are considered to be present in the minority spin
sites at the center of the oxygen tetrahedra, with the
= 3/2 state carrying a small orbital moment owing to spin-orbit interaction. The remaining small number of high-spin Co
(
= 3/2,
= 1) ions with unquenched orbital moments would be distributed to the other octahedral
,
, and
sites.
Tokunaga, Kohei; Kozai, Naofumi; Takahashi, Yoshio*
Journal of Hazardous Materials, 359, p.307 - 315, 2018/07
Times Cited Count:11 Percentile:59.27(Engineering, Environmental)In the present study, we looked at the removal efficiency of Sr by using barite (BaSO) under various experimental conditions to develop techniques for the direct removal of Sr from seawater. The uptake of Sr by barite was found to be dependent on pH, saturation state, and [Ba
]/[SO
] ratio in initial aqueous solution, showing that most of the aqueous Sr can be removed from the aqueous solution by adjusting these parameters. However, the effects of ionic strength and competitive ions were negligible, suggesting the effectiveness of its application to removal of Sr from seawater. Batch experiments were also conducted in a seawater system, and a rather high removal efficiency of Sr from seawater (more than 90%) was achieved. Considering its high removal and retention efficiency of Sr in seawater systems, barite is a reliable material for the removal of Sr from seawater.
Martel, L.*; Hen, A.*; Tokunaga, Yo; Kinnart, F.*; Magnani, N.*; Colineau, E.*; Griveau, J.-C.*; Caciuffo, R.*
Physical Review B, 98(1), p.014410_1 - 014410_8, 2018/07
Times Cited Count:2 Percentile:8.26(Materials Science, Multidisciplinary)We report a study of the magnetic and electronic properties of the UNp
O
solid solution, based on dc- and ac- magnetisation,
Np M
ssbauer spectroscopy,
O Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR), and specific heat measurements. The compound orders antiferromagnetically at T
= 17 K. The different techniques reveal the complexity of this system with:(1) a spatial distribution of ordered moments, (2) a small Np ordered moment, and (3) an additional specific heat anomaly at 7.4 K, with a residual value at very low temperature and a reduced magnetic entropy. The results are compared to the end-members of the series, UO
and NpO
, as well as to the other solid solutions previously reported in this system. We discuss how the properties of U
Np
O
add new input to the trend previously reported for the series, in view of the models that have been previously proposed.
Tokunaga, Yo; Nakamura, Ai*; Aoki, Dai*; Shimizu, Yusei*; Homma, Yoshiya*; Honda, Fuminori*; Sakai, Hironori; Hattori, Taisuke; Kambe, Shinsaku
Physical Review B, 98(1), p.014425_1 - 014425_5, 2018/07
Times Cited Count:1 Percentile:8.26(Materials Science, Multidisciplinary)Pt NMR measurements have been performed on a single crystal of the uranium-based compound UPtGe, which is the only 5f system known to possess an incommensurate helical (cycloidal) structure below TN = 50 K. Knight shift measurement confirmed the isotropic character of the static spin susceptibilities in hexagonal-like ac crystal planes of the EuAuGe-type crystal structure. The hyperfine coupling constants were also found to be isotropic in the planes. Nuclear relaxation rate measurement revealed the development of the antiferro-magnetic spin fluctuations with XY character confined to the hexagonal-like plane below 200 K. The results present a clear contrast to the Ising anisotropy of the fluctuations in ferromagnetic superconductors UCoGe and URhGe.
Pospil, J.*; Haga, Yoshinori; Kohama, Yoshimitsu*; Miyake, Atsushi*; Kambe, Shinsaku; Tateiwa, Naoyuki; Vali
ka, M.*; Proschek, P.*; Prokle
ka, J.*; Sechovsk
, V.*; et al.
Physical Review B, 98(1), p.014430_1 - 014430_7, 2018/07
Times Cited Count:10 Percentile:63.24(Materials Science, Multidisciplinary)Kambe, Shinsaku; Tokunaga, Yo; Sakai, Hironori; Hattori, Taisuke; Higa, Nonoka; Matsuda, Tatsuma*; Haga, Yoshinori; Walstedt, R. E.*; Harima, Hisatomo*
Physical Review B, 97(23), p.235142_1 - 235142_10, 2018/06
Times Cited Count:16 Percentile:77.41(Materials Science, Multidisciplinary)