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Fingerprints of supersymmetric spin and charge dynamics observed by inelastic neutron scattering

Bruce Normand, Andreas Martin Läuchli Herzig

Supersymmetry is an algebraic property of a quantum Hamiltonian that, by giving every boson a fermionic superpartner and vice versa, may underpin physics beyond the Standard Model. Fractional bosonic and fermionic quasiparticles are familiar in condensed m ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2025

Confined and Deconfined Spinon Excitations in the Rectangular-lattice Quantum Antiferromagnet

Henrik Moodysson Rønnow, Bruce Normand, Ellen Fogh, Noore Elahi Shaik

Fractionalization remains one of the most fascinating manifestations of strong interactions in quantum many-body systems. In quantum magnetism, the existence of spinons-collective magnetic excitations that behave as quasiparticles with fractional quantum n ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2025

(C5 H9NH3)2CuBr4: A metal-organic two-ladder quantum magnet

Bruce Normand

Low-dimensional quantum magnets are a versatile materials platform for studying the emergent many-body physics and collective excitations that can arise even in systems with only short-range interactions. Understanding their low-temperature structure and s ...

2024

Field-induced bound-state condensation and spin-nematic phase in SrCu2(BO3)2 revealed by neutron scattering up to 25.9 T

Henrik Moodysson Rønnow, Frédéric Mila, Bruce Normand, Ellen Fogh, Jian Rui Soh, Mithilesh Nayak, Alexandra Angeline Turrini

In quantum magnetic materials, ordered phases induced by an applied magnetic field can be described as the Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) of magnon excitations. In the strongly frustrated system SrCu2(BO3)(2), no clear magnon BEC could be observed, point ...

Nature Portfolio2024

Molecular intercalation in the van der Waals antiferromagnets FePS3 and NiPS3

Bruce Normand, Ying Chen, Sheng Xu, Shuo Li, Xiaoyu Xu, Zeyu Wang, Weiqiang Yu

We have performed electrochemical treatment of the van der Waals antiferromagnetic materials FePS3 and NiPS3 with the ionic liquid EMIM-BF4, achieving significant molecular intercalation. Mass analysis of the intercalated compounds, EMIMx-FePS3 and EMIMx-N ...

Amer Physical Soc2024

Spin Waves and Three Dimensionality in the High-Pressure Antiferromagnetic Phase of SrCu2 (BO3)2

Henrik Moodysson Rønnow, Frédéric Mila, Bruce Normand, Ellen Fogh, Jian Rui Soh, Gaétan Charles Antoine Giriat

Quantum magnetic materials can provide explicit realizations of paradigm models in quantum many-body physics. In this context, SrCu2(BO3)2 is a faithful realization of the Shastry-Sutherland model for ideally frustrated spin dimers, even displaying several ...

2024

Multinode quantum spin liquids in extended Kitaev honeycomb models

Bruce Normand

Variational Monte Carlo (VMC) studies of extended Kitaev honeycomb models reveal a series of multinode quantum spin liquids (QSLs). They have an emergent Z2 gauge structure, a discrete number of symmetry-protected Majorana cones, and form Abelian or non-Ab ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2024

Field-controlled multicritical behavior and emergent universality in fully frustrated quantum magnets

Bruce Normand

Phase transitions in condensed matter are a source of exotic emergent properties. We study the fully frustrated bilayer Heisenberg antiferromagnet to demonstrate that an applied magnetic field creates a previously unknown emergent criticality. The quantum ...

Nature Portfolio2024

Superconductivity in nickelate and cuprate superconductors with strong bilayer coupling

Bruce Normand

The discovery of superconductivity at 80 K under high pressure in La3Ni2O7 3 Ni 2 O 7 presents the groundbreaking confirmation that high-Tc T c superconductivity is a property of strongly correlated materials beyond cuprates. We use density functional theo ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2024

Ultrafast frustration breaking and magnetophononic driving of singlet excitations in a quantum magnet

Bruce Normand, Christian Rüegg, Nicola Colonna

Ideal magnetic frustration forms the basis for the emergence of exotic quantum spin states that are entirely nonmagnetic. Such singlet spin states are the defining feature of the Shastry-Sutherland model, and of its faithful materials realization in the qu ...

2023