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; Magnetic-quadrupole couplingMetoki, Naoto; Yamauchi, Hiroki; Watanuki, Ryuta*
Kotai Butsuri, 60(9), p.493 - 505, 2025/09
Inelastic neutron scattering experiments were carried out to understand the unusual successive order in NdB with the frustrated Shatry-Sutherland (SS) lattice. The pseudo-quartet with 
and 
splits into four levels in the magnetically ordered states. The spectra can be explained with the on-site magnetic interaction 
, the coupling of 
with quadrupole 
, and the uniaxial crystalline electric field. The 
-electron states reproduce the temperature dependences of the in-plane moment 
which is the primary order parameter, and a weakly induced 
as the secondary order parameter. The magnetic-quadrupole coupling emerges and play essential role under the geometrical frustration, where the Heisenberg interactions are cancelled out.
Yamauchi, Hiroki; Metoki, Naoto; Watanuki, Ryuta*; Hong, T.*; Fernandez-Baca, J. A.*; Hagihara, Masato; Masuda, Takatsugu*; Yoshizawa, Hideki*; Ito, Shinichi*
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 94(5), p.054705_1 - 054705_8, 2025/04
Times Cited Count：0 Percentile：0.00(Physics, Multidisciplinary)Hirata, Yoshinobu*; Nakagawa, Hiroshi; Yamauchi, Hiroki; Kaneko, Koji; Hagihara, Masato; Yamaguchi, Hideyuki*; Imaizumi, Teppei*; Nishizu, Takahisa*
International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 306, p.141668_1 - 141668_7, 2025/03
Times Cited Count：1 Percentile：78.41(Biochemistry & Molecular Biology)We used quasi-elastic neutron scattering (QENS) to investigate the effect of the ratio of water to rice on the molecular dynamics of cooked rice starch during retrogradation. X-ray diffraction and differential scanning calorimetric measurements revealed that the degree of recrystallization and change in enthalpy were smaller with an increase in the amount of water added for cooking rice, whereas little difference in the crystallinity of the gelatinized rice starch was detected. The QENS measurements determined that the elastic incoherent structure factor (EISF) values of gelatinized samples were smaller with an increase in the amount of water added for cooking rice, indicating that the molecular dynamics of gelatinized rice starch with higher added water content were spatially more extended.
= 
antiferromagnetic tetramer compound Yb
SiO
Hase, Masashi*; Kaneko, Koji; Tabata, Chihiro; Yamauchi, Hiroki; Tsujii, Naohito*; D
nni, A.*
Physical Review B, 111(9), p.094403_1 - 094403_9, 2025/03
Times Cited Count：0 Percentile：58.65(Materials Science, Multidisciplinary) with geometrically frustrated orthogonal antiferromagnetic dimerMetoki, Naoto; Yamauchi, Hiroki; Hagihara, Masato; Watanuki, Ryuta*; Kawamura, Seiko; Kofu, Maiko*; Nakajima, Kenji; Matsuda, Masaaki*
Physical Review B, 111(10), p.104424_1 - 104424_9, 2025/03
Times Cited Count：1 Percentile：58.65(Materials Science, Multidisciplinary)Inelastic neutron scattering experiments were carried out to understand the unusual successive order in NdB with the frustrated Shatry-Sutherland (SS) lattice. The pseudo-quartet with and splits into four levels in the magnetically ordered states. The spectra can be explained with the on-site magnetic interaction , the coupling of with quadrupole , and the uniaxial crystalline electric field. The -electron states reproduce the temperature dependences of the in-plane moment which is the primary order parameter, and a weakly induced as the secondary order parameter. The magnetic-quadrupole coupling emerges and play essential role under the geometrical frustration, where the Heisenberg interactions are cancelled out.
RhSiShamoto, Shinichi; Yamauchi, Hiroki; Iida, Kazuki*; Ikeuchi, Kazuhiko*; Kaneko, Koji; Chen, Y.-S.*; Yano, Shinichiro*; Hsu, P.-T.*; Lee, M. K.*; Hall, A. E.*; et al.
Physical Review Research (Internet), 6(3), p.033303_1 - 033303_7, 2024/09
The magnetic excitation extends at least from 0.3 to 140 meV. The integrated inelastic scattering intensity leads to a localized magnetic moment of about 5
per Mn site fluctuating at 200 K in the wide energy range, although the long-range ordered magnetic moment is only 2.61 at 4 K. The result suggests that a large part of the magnetic moment does not order in MnRhSi.
Kaneko, Koji; Tabata, Chihiro; Hagihara, Masato; Yamauchi, Hiroki; Oba, Yojiro; Kumada, Takayuki; Kubota, Masato; Kojima, Yuki*; Nabatame, Nozomi; Sasaki, Miki; et al.
JPS Conference Proceedings (Internet), 41, p.011015_1 - 011015_6, 2024/03
CoSiYamauchi, Hiroki; Sari, D. P.*; Yasui, Yukio*; Sakakura, Terutoshi*; Kimura, Hiroyuki*; Nakao, Akiko*; Ohara, Takashi; Honda, Takashi*; Kodama, Katsuaki; Igawa, Naoki; et al.
Physical Review Research (Internet), 6(1), p.013144_1 - 013144_9, 2024/02
RhSiShamoto, Shinichi; Yamauchi, Hiroki; Iida, Kazuki*; Ikeuchi, Kazuhiko*; Hall, A. E.*; Chen, Y.-S.*; Lee, M. K.*; Balakrishnan, G.*; Chang, L.-J.*
Communications Physics (Internet), 6, p.248_1 - 248_6, 2023/09
Times Cited Count：3 Percentile：41.81(Physics, Multidisciplinary)We show that the local spin correlation order has a spiral structure by neutron scattering measurement of a MnRhSi single crystal. The possible origins of the magnetic cluster formation are discussed in terms of the Lifshitz invariant and the Griffiths phase, and compared with the room-temperature skyrmion phase of Co
ZnMn
and non-Fermi liquid behavior of 
-Mn.
Hirata, Yoshinobu*; Nakagawa, Hiroshi; Yamauchi, Hiroki; Kaneko, Koji; Hagihara, Masato; Yamaguchi, Hideyuki*; Omoto, Chie*; Katsuno, Nakako*; Imaizumi, Teppei*; Nishizu, Takahisa*
Food Hydrocolloids, 141, p.108728_1 - 108728_7, 2023/08
Times Cited Count：14 Percentile：80.01(Chemistry, Applied)Crystallinity is reflected in the mechanical properties of foods and materials. Crystallinity should be related to the structural dynamics of starch. In this study, we used quasi-elastic neutron scattering (QENS) to investigate changes in the molecular dynamics of cooked rice starch during retrogradation. The width of the measured QENS narrowed with retrogradation. The elastic incoherent structure factor (EISF) increased, which indicated that the molecular dynamics are spatially suppressed upon retrogradation. Analysis of EISF with a bimodal continuous diffusion model, where low and high mobilities are assumed to correspond to crystalline and amorphous phases, respectively, showed that the fraction of the low-mobility component increases with retrogradation.
Kaneko, Koji; Tabata, Chihiro; Hagihara, Masato; Yamauchi, Hiroki; Kubota, Masato; Osakabe, Toyotaka; Onuki, Yoshichika*
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 92(8), p.085001_1 - 085001_2, 2023/08
Times Cited Count：1 Percentile：16.75(Physics, Multidisciplinary)Al and NdPd
Ge
Metoki, Naoto; Shibata, Kaoru; Matsuura, Masato*; Kitazawa, Hideaki*; Suzuki, Hiroyuki*; Yamauchi, Hiroki; Hagihara, Masato; Frontzek, M. D.*; Matsuda, Masaaki*
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 91(5), p.054710_1 - 054710_6, 2022/05
Times Cited Count：0 Percentile：0.00(Physics, Multidisciplinary)Hyperfine splitting of Nd nuclei in NdPdAl has been studied by means of high-resolution neutron spectroscopy. We observed inelastic peaks at 
eV coming from the hyperfine splitting in the magnetically ordered phase due to the hyperfine interactions between Nd nuclei (
=7/2) and the 4 electrons with 
ground state composed of mainly 
. At very low temperatures, nuclear spin of Nd is polarized with increasing occupation probability of low energy levels and contributes to the enhancement of the antiferromagnetic Bragg intensities: the elastic non-spin-flip channel is dominant. As an application of this phenomenon, we determined the Nd moment and hyperfine splitting from the temperature dependence of an antiferromagnetic Bragg intensities for NdPdGe.
Mg
TiOShamoto, Shinichi; Yamauchi, Hiroki; Ikeuchi, Kazuhiko*; Lee, M. K.*; Chang, L.-J.*; Garlea, V. O.*; Hwang, I. Y.*; Lee, K. H.*; Chung, J.-H.*
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 90(9), p.093703_1 - 093703_4, 2021/09
Times Cited Count：0 Percentile：0.00(Physics, Multidisciplinary)no abstracts in English
RhSiKodama, Katsuaki; Honda, Takashi*; Yamauchi, Hiroki; Shamoto, Shinichi*; Ikeda, Kazutaka*; Otomo, Toshiya*
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 90(7), p.074710_1 - 074710_7, 2021/07
Times Cited Count：2 Percentile：19.60(Physics, Multidisciplinary)Hwang, I. Y.*; Lee, K. H.*; Chung, J.-H.*; Ikeuchi, Kazuhiko*; Garlea, V. O.*; Yamauchi, Hiroki; Akatsu, Mitsuhiro*; Shamoto, Shinichi
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 90(6), p.064708_1 - 064708_6, 2021/06
Times Cited Count：6 Percentile：46.12(Physics, Multidisciplinary)no abstracts in English
Miao, P.*; Tan, Z.*; Lee, S. H.*; Ishikawa, Yoshihisa*; Torii, Shuki*; Yonemura, Masao*; Koda, Akihiro*; Komatsu, Kazuki*; Machida, Shinichi*; Sano, Asami; et al.
Physical Review B, 103(9), p.094302_1 - 094302_18, 2021/03
Times Cited Count：6 Percentile：31.48(Materials Science, Multidisciplinary)The layered perovskite PrBaCo
O
demonstrates a strong negative thermal expansion (NTE) which holds potential for being fabricated into composites with zero thermal expansion. The NTE was found to be intimately associated with the spontaneous magnetic ordering, known as magneto-volume effect (MVE). Here we report with compelling evidences that the continuous-like MVE in PrBaCoO is intrinsically of discontinuous character, originating from an magnetoelectric transition from an antiferromagnetic insulating large-volume (AFILV) phase to a ferromagnetic less-insulating small-volume (FLISV) phase. Furthermore, the magnetoelectric effect (ME) shows high sensitivity to multiple external stimuli such as temperature, carrier doping, hydrostatic pressure, magnetic field etc. In contrast to the well-known ME such as colossal magnetoresistance and multi-ferroic effect which involve symmetry breaking of crystal structure, the ME in the cobaltite is purely isostructural. Our discovery provides a new path way to realizing the ME as well as the NTE, which may find applications in new techniques.
symmetry in the tetragonal state of uniaxial strained BaCo
Ni
S
Shamoto, Shinichi; Yamauchi, Hiroki; Ikeuchi, Kazuhiko*; Kajimoto, Ryoichi; Ieda, Junichi
Physical Review Research (Internet), 3(1), p.013169_1 - 013169_9, 2021/02
RhSiYamauchi, Hiroki; Sari, D. P.*; Watanabe, Isao*; Yasui, Yukio*; Chang, L.-J.*; Kondo, Keietsu; Ito, Takashi; Ishikado, Motoyuki*; Hagihara, Masato*; Frontzek, M. D.*; et al.
Communications Materials (Internet), 1, p.43_1 - 43_6, 2020/07
High-temperature short-range order is discovered up to 720 K in MnRhSi by complementary use of neutron scattering and muon spin relaxation measurements.
-electron state of the heavy fermion superconductor NpPdAl and the isostructural familyMetoki, Naoto; Aczel, A. A.*; Aoki, Dai*; Chi, S.*; Fernandez-Baca, J. A.*; Griveau, J.-C.*; Hagihara, Masato*; Hong, T.*; Haga, Yoshinori; Ikeuchi, Kazuhiko*; et al.
JPS Conference Proceedings (Internet), 30, p.011123_1 - 011123_6, 2020/03
Rare earths (4) and actinides (5) provide variety of interesting states realized with competing interactions between the increasing number of electrons. Since crystal field splitting of many-body electron system is smaller than the bandwidth, (1) high resolution experiments are needed, (2) essentially no clear spectrum with well defined peaks is expected in itinerant Ce and U compounds, and (3) Np and Pu is strictly regulated. Therefore, systematic research on magnetic excitations by neutron scattering experiments of localized compounds and rare earth iso-structural reference is useful. We describe the electron states of heavy electron compounds NpPdAl and actinide and rare earth based iso-structural family.
-electron states in PrPdAlMetoki, Naoto; Yamauchi, Hiroki; Suzuki, Hiroyuki*; Kitazawa, Hideaki*; Hagihara, Masato*; Masuda, Takatsugu*; Aczel, A. A.*; Chi, S.*; Hong, T.*; Matsuda, Masaaki*; et al.
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 87(9), p.094704_1 - 094704_8, 2018/09
Times Cited Count：6 Percentile：41.41(Physics, Multidisciplinary)The -electron states of PrPdAl were revealed by neutron inelastic scattering. The flat -orbitals with large 
become stable under the two-dimensional CEF potential of unique crystal structure, which is the origin of the Ising anisotropy. A systematic understanding is possible in RPdAl based on this CEF potential. Especially the 
-type anisotropy in NpPdAl can be qualitatively understood with the positive Stevens factors. It mean that the local property is important for the physical properties of RPdAl including the heavy fermion superconductivity in NpPdAl.
