DC Field Science Highlights

Crystals Where Electrons Visit a Hidden Fourth Dimension

By stacking thin crystal sheets with a slight twist, scientists created a "moiré" metal whose electrons behave as if they live in an effectively highe…

Neutral Particles Behaving Like Metals: MagLab Reveals Hidden Quantum Structure in Electrical Insulator

We discovered strong evidence for a brand-new kind of “electron-like” particle in an electrical insulator: it behaves like an electron in motion but c…

Kagome Superconductor Quantum Materials

Scientists at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory have discovered that the kagome superconductor CsV₃Sb₃ hosts not one but two distinct superc…

Revolutionizing Superconductor Testing for Next-Gen Magnet Technologies

A new technique from MagLab researchers uses a material’s natural twist in a magnetic field to quickly measure its performance, paving the way for nex…

Bismuth Breaks the Rules: Mysterious Magnetic Effect Stays Unchanged Across Extreme Temperatures

Our ability to observe new physics sometimes depends on the thinnest of margins and in the case of MagLab users from McGill University, that margin is…

Semi-Dirac Fermions in a Topological Metal

In the zoo of emerging quasiparticles in condensed matter physics, semi-Dirac fermions stand out as being massive and massless depending on the direct…

Unconventional insulator-to-metal phase transition in Mn3Si2Te6

The physical properties of any solid material are determined by what happens in the quantum realm. How the electrons interact with each other, their s…

Striped Electronic Phases in a Structurally Modulated Superlattice

Since the observation of Hofstadter’s Butterfly in graphene, scientists have been working on a veritable zoo of materials which can be exfoliated down…

Magneto-Quantum Oscillations Measured in Insulator Samarium Hexaboride

Topological materials are fascinating because they take the weirdness of quantum mechanics and turn it up a few notches to 11. The behavior of Samariu…

Quasi-2D Fermi Surface in the Anomalous Superconductor UTe2

At ultra-low temperatures in the 32T all superconducting magnet, MagLab users fully mapped out the Fermi surface of UTe_2, learning more about how elec…

Thermal Impedance Spectroscopy: A New Tool to Study Thermodynamics of Materials

This work demonstrates how heat is transmitted through elemental indium using thermal impedance spectroscopy. Spanning 5 orders of magnitude in freque…

Ultrahigh Supercurrent Density in a Two-Dimensional Topological Material

Research on a tungsten disulfide material (1T’-WS₂) reveals a superconducting state that is able to carry an incredibly large amount of current within…

Nontrivial topology in a Kagome superconductor

Kagome is the name given to the traditional Japanese star-like pattern to form baskets. The same geometric pattern can be found in the crystal structu…

Cybersecurity in a Large-Scale Research Facility: The MagLab’s Approach

A specialized cybersecurity approach was developed to meet the needs of a user research facility.

Magnetoelastic interactions in the spin-dimer compound SrCu2(BO3)2

Magnetic Field Driven Coherent Coupling of Bright and Dark Excitons

Probing one of the prominent classes of atomically-thin materials, the transition metal dichalcogenides, researchers found that while dark excitons ar…

Quantum Fluctuations Induce Stable Magnetic Arrangements in Layered Materials

Using high magnetic fields and low temperatures, scientists were able to observe a complex set of quantum fluctuations in a Barium, Cobalt, Antimony a…

Fermi Surface Transforms at the Onset of the Pseudogap State in a Cuprate Superconductor

In high-temperature superconductors, a region exists between the superconducting and normal states known as the pseudogap state. Using the 45T hybrid …

Unconventional Charge Transport in Kondo insulator YbB12

Three complementary measurements in intense magnetic fields shed light on a very unusual material that behaves like a metal, but does not conduct elec…

Crossover Between Coupling Regimes

Theory predicted that the transition between the superconducting and superfluid regimes should be continuous for electrons and holes in solid material…

Magnetostriction in AlFe2B2 at 25 T Measured by X-Ray Diffraction

Using X-ray diffraction, scientists can now detect atoms themselves moving further apart or closer together in high magnetic fields, giving science a …

New Quantum Tricks in Nitride Materials

Gallium nitride (GaN) and Niobium nitride (NbN) are widely used in today's technologies: GaN is used to make blue LEDs and high-frequency transistors …

Linear-In Temperature Resistivity From Isotropic Planckian Scattering Rate

Electrons in metals behave like chaotic bumper cars, crashing into each other at every opportunity. While they may be reckless drivers, this result de…

First Spin Coherence Measurements in the MagLab's 32T Superconducting Magnet

The MagLab's 32 T all-superconducting magnet is now serving users at full field. An early experiment in the magnet identified an important milestone o…

Exchange Bias Between Coexisting Antiferromagnetic and Spin-Glass Orders

A pane of window glass and a piece of quartz are both are transparent to light, but their atomic structure is very different. Quartz is crystalline at…

Broadening Participation in DC Field Facility by Bridging a Research Infrastructure Gap

Researchers based at four-year colleges and universities outside of the Research-1 (R1) tier face more obstacles to performing research than their col…

Probing a Purported Spin Nematic State Utilizing the World Record 32T All-Superconducting Magnet

Nuclear magnetic resonance measurements were performed in the all-new 32 T superconducting magnet in an effort to confirm a new quantum state. Results…

Extreme Re-Entrant Superconductivity

Studies of uranium ditelluride in high magnetic fields show superconductivity switching off at 35 T, but reoccurring at higher magnetic fields between…