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Ye L, Sorensen ME, Bachmann MD, Fisher IR. Measurement of the magnetic octupole susceptibility of PrV 2Al 20. Nat Commun 2024; 15:7005. [PMID: 39143053 PMCID: PMC11325040 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-51269-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2023] [Accepted: 08/02/2024] [Indexed: 08/16/2024] Open
Abstract
Revealing the presence of magnetic octupole order and associated octupole fluctuations in solids is a highly challenging task due to the lack of simple external fields that can couple to magnetic octupoles. Here, we demonstrate a methodology for probing the magnetic octupole susceptibility of a candidate material, PrV2Al20, using a product of magnetic field Hi and shear strain ϵjk as a composite effective field, while employing an adiabatic elastocaloric effect to probe the response. We observe Curie-Weiss behavior in the obtained octupolar susceptibility down to approximately 3 K. Although octupole order does not appear to be the leading multipolar channel in PrV2Al20, our results nevertheless reveal the presence of strong magnetic octupole fluctuations and hence demonstrate that octupole order is at least a competing state. More broadly, our results highlight how anisotropic strain can be combined with magnetic fields to probe elusive 'hidden' electronic orders.
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- Linda Ye
- Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
- Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
- Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.
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- Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
- Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
- Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
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Zic MP, Ikeda MS, Massat P, Hollister PM, Ye L, Rosenberg EW, Straquadine JAW, Li Y, Ramshaw BJ, Fisher IR. Giant elastocaloric effect at low temperatures in TmVO 4 and implications for cryogenic cooling. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2024; 121:e2320052121. [PMID: 38870056 PMCID: PMC11194576 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2320052121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2023] [Accepted: 05/03/2024] [Indexed: 06/15/2024] Open
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Adiabatic decompression of paraquadrupolar materials has significant potential as a cryogenic cooling technology. We focus on TmVO[Formula: see text], an archetypal material that undergoes a continuous phase transition to a ferroquadrupole-ordered state at 2.15 K. Above the phase transition, each Tm ion contributes an entropy of [Formula: see text] due to the degeneracy of the crystal electric field groundstate. Owing to the large magnetoelastic coupling, which is a prerequisite for a material to undergo a phase transition via the cooperative Jahn-Teller effect, this level splitting, and hence the entropy, can be readily tuned by externally induced strain. Using a dynamic technique in which the strain is rapidly oscillated, we measure the adiabatic elastocaloric response of single-crystal TmVO[Formula: see text], and thus experimentally obtain the entropy landscape as a function of strain and temperature. The measurement confirms the suitability of this class of materials for cryogenic cooling applications and provides insight into the dynamic quadrupole strain susceptibility.
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- Mark P. Zic
- Department of Physics, and Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Stanford University, Stanford, CA94305
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- Department of Applied Physics, and Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Stanford University, Stanford, CA94305
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- Department of Applied Physics, and Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Stanford University, Stanford, CA94305
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- Department of Physics, and Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY14853
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- Department of Applied Physics, and Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Stanford University, Stanford, CA94305
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- Department of Applied Physics, and Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Stanford University, Stanford, CA94305
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- Department of Applied Physics, and Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Stanford University, Stanford, CA94305
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- Department of Applied Physics, and Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Stanford University, Stanford, CA94305
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- Department of Physics, and Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY14853
- Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, TorontoM5G 1Z8, ON, Canada
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- Department of Applied Physics, and Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Stanford University, Stanford, CA94305
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Ye L, Sun Y, Sunko V, Rodriguez-Nieva JF, Ikeda MS, Worasaran T, Sorensen ME, Bachmann MD, Orenstein J, Fisher IR. Elastocaloric signatures of symmetric and antisymmetric strain-tuning of quadrupolar and magnetic phases in DyB 2C 2. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2023; 120:e2302800120. [PMID: 37607225 PMCID: PMC10468613 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2302800120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2023] [Accepted: 07/22/2023] [Indexed: 08/24/2023] Open
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The adiabatic elastocaloric effect measures the temperature change of a given system with strain and provides a thermodynamic probe of the entropic landscape in the temperature-strain space. Here, we demonstrate that the DC bias strain-dependence of AC elastocaloric effect allows decomposition of the latter into symmetric (rotation-symmetry-preserving) and antisymmetric (rotation-symmetry-breaking) strain channels, using a tetragonal [Formula: see text]-electron intermetallic DyB[Formula: see text]C[Formula: see text]-whose antiferroquadrupolar order breaks local fourfold rotational symmetries while globally remaining tetragonal-as a showcase example. We capture the strain evolution of its quadrupolar and magnetic phase transitions using both singularities in the elastocaloric coefficient and its jumps at the transitions, and the latter we show follows a modified Ehrenfest relation. We find that antisymmetric strain couples to the underlying order parameter in a biquadratic (linear-quadratic) manner in the antiferroquadrupolar (canted antiferromagnetic) phase, which are attributed to a preserved (broken) global tetragonal symmetry, respectively. The broken tetragonal symmetry in the magnetic phase is further evidenced by elastocaloric strain-hysteresis and optical birefringence. Additionally, within the staggered quadrupolar order, the observed elastocaloric response reflects a quadratic increase of entropy with antisymmetric strain, analogous to the role magnetic field plays for Ising antiferromagnetic orders by promoting pseudospin flips. Our results demonstrate AC elastocaloric effect as a compact and incisive thermodynamic probe into the coupling between electronic degrees of freedom and strain in free energy, which holds the potential for investigating and understanding the symmetry of a wide variety of ordered phases in broader classes of quantum materials.
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- Linda Ye
- Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Stanford University, Stanford, CA94305
- Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA94305
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA94720
- Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA94720
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA94720
- Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA94720
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- Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Stanford University, Stanford, CA94305
- Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA94305
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- Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Stanford University, Stanford, CA94305
- Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA94305
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- Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Stanford University, Stanford, CA94305
- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA94305
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- Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Stanford University, Stanford, CA94305
- Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA94305
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA94720
- Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA94720
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- Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Stanford University, Stanford, CA94305
- Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA94305
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Philippe JC, Lespinas A, Faria J, Forget A, Colson D, Houver S, Cazayous M, Sacuto A, Paul I, Gallais Y. Nematic-Fluctuation-Mediated Superconductivity Revealed by Anisotropic Strain in Ba(Fe_{1-x}Co_{x})_{2}As_{2}. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2022; 129:187002. [PMID: 36374691 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.129.187002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2022] [Revised: 09/10/2022] [Accepted: 10/05/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Anisotropic strain is an external field capable of selectively addressing the role of nematic fluctuations in promoting superconductivity. We demonstrate this using polarization-resolved elasto-Raman scattering by probing the evolution of nematic fluctuations under strain in the normal and superconducting state of the paradigmatic iron-based superconductor Ba(Fe_{1-x}Co_{x})_{2}As_{2}. In the parent compound BaFe_{2}As_{2} we observe a strain-induced suppression of the nematic susceptibility which follows the expected behavior of an Ising order parameter under a symmetry breaking field. For the superconducting compound, the suppression of the nematic susceptibility correlates with the decrease of the critical temperature T_{c}, indicating a significant contribution of nematic fluctuations to electron pairing. Our results validate theoretical scenarios of enhanced T_{c} near a nematic quantum critical point.
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- Jean-Côme Philippe
- Université Paris Cité, Matériaux et Phénomènes Quantiques, UMR CNRS 7162, Bátiment Condorcet, 75205 Paris Cedex 13, France
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- Université Paris Cité, Matériaux et Phénomènes Quantiques, UMR CNRS 7162, Bátiment Condorcet, 75205 Paris Cedex 13, France
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- Université Paris Cité, Matériaux et Phénomènes Quantiques, UMR CNRS 7162, Bátiment Condorcet, 75205 Paris Cedex 13, France
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- Service de Physique de l'Etat Condensé, DSM/DRECAM/SPEC, CEA Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette 91191, France
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- Service de Physique de l'Etat Condensé, DSM/DRECAM/SPEC, CEA Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette 91191, France
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- Université Paris Cité, Matériaux et Phénomènes Quantiques, UMR CNRS 7162, Bátiment Condorcet, 75205 Paris Cedex 13, France
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- Université Paris Cité, Matériaux et Phénomènes Quantiques, UMR CNRS 7162, Bátiment Condorcet, 75205 Paris Cedex 13, France
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- Université Paris Cité, Matériaux et Phénomènes Quantiques, UMR CNRS 7162, Bátiment Condorcet, 75205 Paris Cedex 13, France
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- Université Paris Cité, Matériaux et Phénomènes Quantiques, UMR CNRS 7162, Bátiment Condorcet, 75205 Paris Cedex 13, France
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- Université Paris Cité, Matériaux et Phénomènes Quantiques, UMR CNRS 7162, Bátiment Condorcet, 75205 Paris Cedex 13, France
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Li YS, Garst M, Schmalian J, Ghosh S, Kikugawa N, Sokolov DA, Hicks CW, Jerzembeck F, Ikeda MS, Hu Z, Ramshaw BJ, Rost AW, Nicklas M, Mackenzie AP. Elastocaloric determination of the phase diagram of Sr 2RuO 4. Nature 2022; 607:276-280. [PMID: 35831597 PMCID: PMC9279151 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-04820-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2021] [Accepted: 04/28/2022] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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One of the main developments in unconventional superconductivity in the past two decades has been the discovery that most unconventional superconductors form phase diagrams that also contain other strongly correlated states. Many systems of interest are therefore close to more than one instability, and tuning between the resultant ordered phases is the subject of intense research1. In recent years, uniaxial pressure applied using piezoelectric-based devices has been shown to be a particularly versatile new method of tuning2,3, leading to experiments that have advanced our understanding of the fascinating unconventional superconductor Sr2RuO4 (refs. 4-9). Here we map out its phase diagram using high-precision measurements of the elastocaloric effect in what we believe to be the first such study including both the normal and the superconducting states. We observe a strong entropy quench on entering the superconducting state, in excellent agreement with a model calculation for pairing at the Van Hove point, and obtain a quantitative estimate of the entropy change associated with entry to a magnetic state that is observed in proximity to the superconductivity. The phase diagram is intriguing both for its similarity to those seen in other families of unconventional superconductors and for extra features unique, so far, to Sr2RuO4.
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- You-Sheng Li
- Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany
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- Institut für Theoretische Festkörperphysik, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
- Institut für QuantenMaterialien und Technologien, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Institut für QuantenMaterialien und Technologien, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
- Institut für Theorie der Kondensierten Materie, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan
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- Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
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- Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany
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- Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
- Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
- Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, USA
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- Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany
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- Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- Scottish Universities Physics Alliance, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK
- Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany.
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- Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany.
- Scottish Universities Physics Alliance, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK.
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Palmstrom JC, Walmsley P, Straquadine JAW, Sorensen ME, Hannahs ST, Burns DH, Fisher IR. Comparison of temperature and doping dependence of elastoresistivity near a putative nematic quantum critical point. Nat Commun 2022; 13:1011. [PMID: 35197491 PMCID: PMC8866430 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-28583-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2020] [Accepted: 01/26/2022] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Strong electronic nematic fluctuations have been discovered near optimal doping for several families of Fe-based superconductors, motivating the search for a possible link between these fluctuations, nematic quantum criticality, and high temperature superconductivity. Here we probe a key prediction of quantum criticality, namely power-law dependence of the associated nematic susceptibility as a function of composition and temperature approaching the compositionally tuned putative quantum critical point. To probe the ‘bare’ quantum critical point requires suppression of the superconducting state, which we achieve by using large magnetic fields, up to 45 T, while performing elastoresistivity measurements to follow the nematic susceptibility. We performed these measurements for the prototypical electron-doped pnictide, Ba(Fe1−xCox)2As2, over a dense comb of dopings. We find that close to the putative quantum critical point, the elastoresistivity appears to obey power-law behavior as a function of composition over almost a decade of variation in composition. Paradoxically, however, we also find that the temperature dependence for compositions close to the critical value cannot be described by a single power law. Evidence for quantum criticality in Fe-based superconductors is still being accumulated. Here, the authors observe power-law behavior of the elastoresistivity as a function of composition in Ba(Fe1−xCox)2As2 near a putative nematic quantum critical point, consistent with expectations for quantum criticality, while the temperature dependence near the critical doping deviates from a power law.
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- J C Palmstrom
- Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA. .,Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA. .,Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA. .,National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, 97545, USA.
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- Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA.,Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA.,Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA
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- Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA.,Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA.,Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA
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- Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA.,Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA.,Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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- National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, 32310, USA
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- Department of Geological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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- Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA. .,Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA. .,Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA.
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