Triple- q quadrupole-octupole order scenario for PrV2Al20

Tuning fifth-order aberrations in a quadrupole-octupole corrector.

The resolution of conventional electron microscopes is usually limited by spherical aberration. Microscopes equipped with aberration correctors are then primarily limited by higher order, chromatic, and misalignment aberrations. In particular the Nion third-order aberration correctors installed on machines with a low energy spread and possessing sophisticated alignment software were limited by ...

Heavy-fermion superconductivity in the quadrupole ordered state of PrV2Al20.

PrV2Al20 is a rare example of a heavy-fermion system based on strong hybridization between conduction electrons and nonmagnetic quadrupolar moments of the cubic Γ3 ground doublet. Here, we report that a high-quality single crystal of PrV2Al20 exhibits superconductivity at Tc=50  mK in the antiferroquadrupole-ordered state under ambient pressure. The heavy-fermion character of the superconductiv...

Optimized Quadrupole-Octupole C3/C5 Aberration Corrector for STEM

The ideal location for an aberration corrector in an electron-optical column is at the place where the aberration is introduced. In practice, this of course typically cannot be achieved. The resultant separation between where an aberration is introduced and where it is removed produces combination aberrations for all aberrations of higher than first order. In the case of third-order aberration ...

Quadrupole and octupole radiation from 16O near 39 MeV excitation.

Description of the Nuclear Octupole and Quadrupole Deformation

A parametrization of octupole plus quadrupole deformation, in terms of intrinsic variables defined in the rest frame of the overall tensor of inertia, is presented and discussed. The model is valid for situations close to the axial symmetry, but non axial deformation parameters are not frozen to zero. The properties of the octupole excitations in the deformed Thorium isotopes Th, Th are interpr...