The relevance of magnetism for the mechanism responsible for high-temperature superconductivity remains an open and still interesting issue. The observation by inelastic neutron scattering of strong antiferromagnetic dynamical correlations in superconducting cuprates is discussed in relation to the unusual physical properties of the cuprates as well as in relation to the superconducting pairing...

Inelastic scattering of a low-energy atomic helium beam (HAS) by a physisorbed monolayer is treated in the one-phonon approximation using a time-dependent wave packet formulation. The calculations show that modes with shear horizontal polarization can be excited near high symmetry azimuths of the monolayer, in agreement with recent experiments. The parameters of the calculations are chosen to m...

Abstract. The magnetic susceptibility, specific heat, resistivity and inelastic neutron scattering spectrum were measured on the cubic heavy Fermion compound UMn2Al20. A ferromagnetic transition is observed in the magnetic susceptibility at Tc=20 K, but no anomaly is seen in the specific heat or resistivity at Tc. This behaviour is similar to that of the single-triplet induced moment ferromagne...

The unique properties of neutron interaction with materials have long been applied to the study of geological materials, with Shull and Smart using them in 1949 to determine the antiferromagnetic structure of manganosite (MnO). Neutron diffraction provides an accurate method for crystal structure determination of hydrous phases, particularly ices, and investigations of cation ordering of elemen...

Using deep inelastic neutron scattering, direct measurements have been made, i) of the dynamic structure factor of a series of condensed argon samples over the temperature range 18 to 85 K, near melting (for wave-vector transfers 12 to 26 Ä 1 ) and ii) of liquid neon, near 27 K (for wave-vector transfers 10.4 to 27.6 Ä 1 ) . Neutron time-of-flight chopper spectrometers were employed. Singlepart...

The thermodynamic and magnetic properties of a single impurity Anderson model that describes Ce in an environment with hexagonal symmetry is treated within the noncrossing approximation. It is found that the properties of the system at temperatures larger than the crystal field splitting are described by a Kondo temperature of the sixfold-degenerate spin-orbit multiplet and at low temperatures ...

The effects of plasticization of poly(methyl methacrylate) glass on the boson peaks observed by Raman and neutron scattering are compared. In plasti-cized glass the cohesion heterogeneities are responsible for the neutron boson peak and partially for the Raman one, which is enhanced by the composition heterogeneities. Because the composition heterogeneities have a size similar to that of the co...

Elastic neutron-scattering, inelastic x-ray scattering, specific-heat, and pressure-dependent electrical transport measurements have been made on single crystals of AuZn and Au0.52Zn0.48. Elastic neutron scattering detects new commensurate Bragg peaks (modulation) appearing at Q =(1.33,0.67,0) at temperatures corresponding to each sample's transition temperature (TM = 64 and 45 K, respectively)...

I present a tractable theory for the resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS) of magnons. The low-energy transition operator is written as a product of local spin operators and fundamental x-ray absorption spectral functions. This leads to simple selection rules. The scattering cross section linear (quadratic) in spin operators is proportional to the fundamental magnetic circular (linear) dic...