Investigation of Phonon-Like Excitations in Hydrated Protein Powders by Neutron Scattering

Phonon-like excitation in secondary and tertiary structure of hydrated protein powders

Existence of sub-thermal collective excitations in proteins is of great interest due to its possible close coupling with the onset of their biological functions. We use high-energy resolution inelastic X-ray scattering to directly measure phonon dispersion relations and their damping in two hydrated proteins, a-chymotrypsinogen A and casein, differing in their secondary and tertiary structures....

Investigation of Quantum Phase Transitions in Ising-like Systems, by Torque Magnetometry and Neutron Scattering

Computation of diffuse scattering arising from one-phonon excitations in a neutron time-of-flight single-crystal Laue diffraction experiment

Direct phonon excitation in a neutron time-of-flight single-crystal Laue diffraction experiment has been observed in a single crystal of NaCl. At room temperature both phonon emission and excitation leave characteristic features in the diffuse scattering and these are well reproduced using abinitio phonons from density functional theory (DFT). A measurement at 20 K illustrates the effect of the...

Phonon and magnetic neutron scattering at 41 meV in YBa2Cu3O7.

We report inelastic neutron scattering measurements at excitation energies h̄v , 41 meV in YBa 2Cu 3O 7. We separate magnetic and phonon contributions to the scattering cross section by a detailed analysis of the momentum dependence of the scattered intensity. The previously reported broad peak around q ­ spya, pyad in the normal state can be entirely accounted for by a phonon which primarily in...

Spin-phonon coupling in K0.8Fe1.6Se2 and KFe2Se2: Inelastic neutron scattering and ab initio phonon calculations

R. Mittal,1 M. K. Gupta,1 S. L. Chaplot,1 M. Zbiri,2 S. Rols,2 H. Schober,2,3 Y. Su,4 Th. Brueckel,4,5 and T. Wolf6 1Solid State Physics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai 400 085, India 2Institut Laue-Langevin, BP 156, 38042 Grenoble Cedex 9, France 3Université Joseph Fourier, UFR de Physique, 38041, Grenoble Cedex 9, France 4Juelich Centre for Neutron Science JCNS-FRM II...