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Aktuelles

Publikation: Pressure-tuned quantum criticality in the large-D antiferromagnet DTN

Povarov, K. et al., Nat. Comm. 15 (2024), 2295

Publikation: Field-induced compensation of magnetic exchange as the possible origin of reentrant superconductivity in UTe2

Helm, T. et al., Nat. Comm. 15 (2024), 37

Publikation: Terahertz Néel spin-orbit torques drive nonlinear magnon dynamics in antiferromagnetic Mn2Au

Behovits, Y. et al., Nat. Comm. 14 (2023), 6038

Publikation: Unveiling new quantum phases in the Shastry-Sutherland compound SrCu2(BO3)2 up to the saturation magnetic field

Nomura, T. et al., Nat. Comm. 14 (2023), 3769


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Research Highlights

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Tracking unconventional superconductivity

Research team presents heavyweight champion

At low enough temperatures, certain metals lose their electrical resistance and they conduct electricity without loss. This effect of superconductivity is known for more than hundred years and is well understood for so-called conventional superconductors. More recent, however, are unconventional superconductors, for which it is unclear yet how they work. A team from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), together with colleagues from the French research institution CEA (Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives), from Tohoku University in Japan, and the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids in Dresden, has now gained new insights. The researchers report their recent findings in the journal Nature Communications (DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-44183-1). Read more...


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An exotic interplay of electrons

International research team discovers novel quantum state

Water that simply will not freeze, no matter how cold it gets – a research group involving the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) has discovered a quantum state that could be described in this way. Experts from the Institute of Solid State Physics at the University of Tokyo in Japan, Johns Hopkins University in the United States, and the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems (MPI-PKS) in Dresden, Germany, managed to cool a special material to near absolute zero temperature. They found that a central property of atoms – their alignment – did not “freeze”, as usual, but remained in a “liquid” state. The new quantum material could serve as a model system to develop novel, highly sensitive quantum sensors. The team has presented its findings in the journal Nature Physics (DOI: 10.1038/s41567-022-01816-4). Read more...


Foto: Materialforschung am Hochfeld-Magnetlabor Dresden (HLD) ©Copyright: HZDR/ Rainer Weisflog

Nachhaltige Magnete

PUMA hilft der Energiewende

Leistungsstarke Magnete können zur effektiven Kühlung, Wärme- und Stromerzeugung verwendet werden. Sie tragen entscheidend zur Energiewende bei. Ein Verbund unter der Leitung der Universität Duisburg-Essen (UDE) erforscht daher neue magnetische Werkstoffe, die effizient und umweltverträglich sind. Partner im Projekt PUMA sind die Technische Universität Darmstadt und das Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR). Das Bundesforschungsministerium fördert PUMA ab Oktober für vier Jahre mit zwei Millionen Euro. Read more...


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Bringing the Sun into the lab

Liquid-metal experiment provides insight into the heating mechanism of the Sun's corona
Why the Sun's corona reaches temperatures of several million degrees Celsius is one of the great mysteries of solar physics. A "hot" trail to explain this effect leads to a region of the solar atmosphere just below the corona, where sound waves and certain plasma waves travel at the same speed. In an experiment using the molten alkali metal rubidium and pulsed high magnetic fields, a team from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) has developed a laboratory model and for the first time experimentally confirmed the theoretically predicted behavior of these plasma waves – so-called Alfvén waves – as the researchers report in the journal Physical Review Letters. Read more...


This work is published in:

Stefani, F.; Forbriger, J.; Gundrum, T.; Herrmannsdörfer, T.; Wosnitza, J.
Mode conversion and period doubling in a liquid rubidium Alfvén-wave experiment with coinciding sound and Alfvén speeds
Physical Review Letters 127 (2021), 275001


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How to cool more efficiently: Scientists break new ground in future refrigeration

In the journal Applied Physics Reviews, an international research team from the University of Barcelona, the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), and TU Darmstadt report on possibilities for implementing more efficient and environmentally friendly refrigeration processes. For this purpose, they investigated the effects of simultaneously exposing certain alloys to magnetic fields and mechanical stress. Read more...


This work is published in:

Gràcia-Condal, A.; Gottschall, T.; Pfeuffer, L.; Gutfleisch, O.; Planes, A.; Mañosa, L.
Multicaloric effects in metamagnetic Heusler Ni-Mn-In under uniaxial stress and magnetic field
Applied Physics Reviews 7 (2020), 041406


Opened diamond anvil cell after experiment ©Copyright: Toni Helm

A topography of extremes: On the track of unconventional superconductivity, researchers are charting unknown territory

An international team of scientists from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, and colleagues from the USA and Switzerland have successfully combined various extreme experimental conditions in a completely unique way, revealing exciting insights into the mysterious conducting properties of the crystalline metal CeRhIn5. Read more...


This work is published in:

Helm, T.; Grockowiak, A. D.; Balakirev, F. F.; Singleton, J.; Betts, J. B.; Shirer, K. R.; König, M.; Förster, T.; Bauer, E. D.; Ronning, F.
Non-monotonic pressure dependence of high-field nematicity and magnetism in CeRhIn5
Nat. Comm. 11 (2020)1, 3482


Magnetspule in der Nahaufnahme ©Copyright: HZDR/Oliver Killig

“SuperEMFL” and “ISABEL”: European Union awards EMFL consortium 7.8 million Euro funding

Together with partners, the three European Magnetic Field Laboratories, joined in EMFL, have been awarded two EU Horizon 2020 grants: one to develop all-superconducting user magnets beyond 40 Tesla (2.9 million Euro), and one to expand EMFL’s industrial and user community (4.9 million Euro). With these grants, EMFL will strengthen its long-term sustainability and invest in the design of beyond-state-of-the-art magnets. Read more...


Landscape - The magnetocaloric effect: Brought into a magnetic field, the temperature of certain materials changes significantly. ©Copyright: HZDR/ Juniks

Tomorrow's coolants of choice

Later during this century, around 2060, a paradigm shift in global energy consumption is expected: we will spend more energy for cooling than for heating. Meanwhile, the increasing penetration of cooling applications into our daily lives causes a rapidly growing ecological footprint. New refrigeration processes such as magnetic cooling could limit the resulting impact on the climate and the environment. Researchers at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) and the Technische Universität Darmstadt have taken a closer look at today's most promising materials. The result of their work is the first systematic magnetocaloric material library with all relevant property data, which they have published now in the journal Advanced Energy Materials. Read more...


This work is published in:

T. Gottschall, K. P. Skokov, M. Fries, A. Taubel, I. Radulov, F. Scheibel, D. Benke, S. Riegg, O. Gutfleisch
Making a Cool Choice: the Materials Library of Magnetic Refrigeration 
Adv. Energy Mater. 9 (2019), 1901322


Crystal caesium copper chloride (Cs2CuCl4), short CCC ©Copyright: Detlev Müller / HZDR

Frustrated materials under high pressure

HZDR researchers modify magnetic behavior of exotic materials

People are not the only ones to be occasionally frustrated. Some crystals also show frustrations. They do so whenever their elementary magnets, the magnetic spins, cannot align properly. Cesium copper chloride (Cs2CuCl4) – or CCC for short – is a prime example of frustrated materials. In this crystal, the magnetic copper atoms reside on a triangular lattice and seek to align themselves antiparallel to each other. In a triangle, this does not work, however. This geometric frustration challenges physicists. After all, it promises the discovery of new magnetic phenomena that may even be used for quantum computers in the future. To better investigate and understand the underlying basics, physicists from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) in Germany, supported by Japanese and American colleagues, can now control the magnetic coupling using an elegant measuring method. Read more...


This work is published in:

S. A. Zvyagin, D. Graf, T. Sakurai, S. Kimura, H. Nojiri, J. Wosnitza, H. Ohta, T. Ono, H. Tanaka
Pressure-tuning the quantum spin Hamiltonian of the triangular lattice antiferromagnet Cs2CuCl4
Nature Communications 10 (2019), 1064


Darstellung Spinell-Verbindung

Supersolidity in bond-frustrated MnCr2S4

The high-field phase diagram of MnCr2S4 suggests the existence of extended supersolid phases, in addition to superfluid and crystalline phases. A supersolid is an ordered solid which, due to quantum phenomena, has also superfluid properties and, under some conditions, can thus behave as a liquid without viscosity. This was found together with researchers from the Center for Electronic Correlations and Magnetism at the University of Augsburg. The work shows that magnetic systems under extreme conditions are prime candidates for the emergence of coherent quantum phenomena. Read more...


This work is published in:

V. Tsurkan, S. Zherlitsyn, L. Prodan, V. Felea, P. T. Cong, Y. Skourski, Z. Wang, J. Deisenhofer, H.-A. Krug von Nidda, J. Wosnitza, and A. Loidl
Ultra-robust high-field magnetization plateau and supersolidity in bond-frustrated MnCr2S4
Sci. Adv. 3, e1601982 (2017)


Observation of a Quantum Spin Liquid (Picture: Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin)

Observation of a Quantum Spin Liquid

A novel and rare state of matter known as a quantum spin liquid has been empirically demonstrated in a single crystal of the compound calcium-chromium oxide by a team of Helmholtz scientists in Berlin and Dresden. What is remarkable about this discovery is that according to conventional understanding, a quantum spin liquid should not be possible in this material. A theoretical explanation for these observations has also been developed. This work deepens our knowledge of condensed matter and might also be important for future developments in quantum information. Read more...


This work is published in:

C. Balz, B. Lake, J. Reuther, H. Luetkens, R. Schönemann, T. Herrmannsdörfer, Y. Singh, A. T. M. Nazmul Islam, E. M. Wheeler, J. A. Rodriguez-Rivera, T. Guidi, G. G. Simeoni, C. Baines, H. Ryll
Physical realization of a quantum spin liquid based on a complex frustration mechanism
Nature Physics 12 (2016), 942-950


Giant magnetoresistance in niobium phosphor

With 300 Kilometers per Second to New Electronics

The material NbP exhibits an extremely large magnetoresistance that may be suitable for use in electronic components. This was discovered by a cooperation with researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids and from the High Magnetic Field Laboratory at the Radbound University in the Netherlands. Read more...


This work is published in:

C. Shekhar, A. K. Nayak, Y. Sun, M. Schmidt, M. Nicklas, I. Leermakers, U. Zeitler, Y. Skourski, J. Wosnitza, Z. Liu, Y. Chen, W. Schnelle, H. Borrmann, Y. Grin, C. Felser, B, Yan

Extremely large magnetoresistance and ultrahigh mobility in the topological Weyl semimetal candidate NbP

Nature Physics 11(2015), 645-649


Cosmic Jets Forming from a Young Star

Cosmic Jets of Young Stars Formed by Magnetic Fields

Astrophysical jets are counted among our Universe’s most spectacular phenomena: From the centers of black holes, quasars, or protostars, these rays of matter sometimes protrude several light years into space. Now, for the first time, an international team of researchers has successfully tested a new model that explains how magnetic fields form these emissions in young stars. Read more...


This work is published in:

B. Albertazzi, A. Ciardi, M. Nakatsutsumi, T. Vinci, J. Béard, R. Bonito, J. Billette, M. Borghesi, Z. Burkley, S. N. Chen, T. E. Cowan, T. Herrmannsdörfer, D. P. Higginson, F. Kroll, S. A. Pikuz, K. Naughton, L. Romagnani, C. Riconda, G. Revet, R. Riquier, H.-P. Schlenvoigt, I. Yu. Skobelev, A. Ya. Faenov, A. Soloviev, M. Huarte-Espinosa, A. Frank, O. Portugall, H. Pépin, J. Fuchs
Laboratory formation of a scaled protostellar jet by coaligned poloidal magnetic field
Science 346 (2014), 325-328


Schematic low-temperature phase diagram of CoCr2O4Unconventional high magnetic field phase in multiferroic material CoCr2O4

Together with colleagues from the Institute of Physics, University of Augsburg and the Institute of Applied Physics, Academy of Sciences of Moldova we have discovered a novel high-field phase in the multiferroic material CoCr2O4. This material is a possible candidate for applications.


This work is published in:

V. Tsurkan, S. Zherlitsyn, S. Yasin, V. Felea, Y. Skourski, J. Deisenhofer, H.-A. Krug von Nidda, J. Wosnitza, and A. Loidl
Unconventional Magnetostructural Transition in CoCr2O4 at High Magnetic Fields
Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 115502 (2013)


Ein Einzeller macht es möglich: Ganz von selbst ordnen sich auf den Hüllproteinen von Sulfolobus acidocaldarius Goldatome zu magnetischen Nano-Clustern an.Strong Paramagnetism of Gold Nanoparticles Deposited on a protein Surface Layer

By means of magnetization measurements, we have observed unexpected large magnetic moments of Au nanoclusters with an average diameter of 2.6 nm which have been deposited on an organic template. This work has been done in cooperation with colleagues from Universidad de Zaragoza, the University of Granada, and the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble. Read more...


This work is published in:

J. Bartolomé, F. Bartolomé, L. M. García, A. I. Figueroa, A. Repollés, M. J. Martínez, F. Luis, C. Magén, S. Selenska-Pobell, F. Pobell, T. Reitz, R. Schönemann, T. Herrmannsdörfer, A. Geissler, M. Merroun, F. Wilhelm and A. Rogalev
Strong paramagnetism of Gold nanoparticles deposited on a Sulfolobus acidocaldarius S-layer
Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 247203 (2012)


Die Kristallstruktur des Materials SrMnBi2 ist ähnlich aufgebaut wie die einiger Eisen-Pniktide.Anisotropic Dirac Fermions in a Bi Square Net of SrMnBi2

In cooperation with the Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea we have determined the band structure of SrMnBi2. We have observed interesting features including linear dispersion (analogy to graphene) and possibilities for chemical tuning. Read more...


This work is published in:

J. Park; G. Lee; F. Wolff-Fabris; Y. Y. Koh; M. J. Eom; Y. K. Kim; M. A. Farhan; Y. J. Jo; C. Kim; J. H. Shim; J. S. Kim
Anisotropic Dirac Fermions in a Bi Square Net of SrMnBi2
Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 126402 (2011)

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(a) Optical images of a typical device before top-gate deposition.Stacking-order dependent transport properties of trilayer graphene

We have observed novel transport properties in trilayer graphene. In our joint experiments with the university of Regensburg we observed the strong dependency of the emerge of an energy gap or band overlap on the mutual orientation of the graphene layers.


This work is published in:

S. H. Jhang; M. F. Craciun; S. Schmidmeier; S. Tokumitsu; S. Russo; M. Yamamoto; Y. Skourski; J. Wosnitza; S. Tarucha; J. Eroms; C. Strunk
Stacking-order dependent transport properties of trilayer graphene
Phys. Rev. B 84, 161408(R) (2011)