{"id":9155,"date":"2021-05-27T16:20:54","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T23:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about-hmc\/?p=9155"},"modified":"2021-08-27T15:40:25","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T22:40:25","slug":"physics-paper-named-editors-suggestion-in-physical-review-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/2021\/05\/27\/physics-paper-named-editors-suggestion-in-physical-review-b\/","title":{"rendered":"Physics Paper Named \u2018Editors Suggestion\u2019 in Physical Review B"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harvey Mudd College Professor of Physics Nicholas Breznay \u201902 and student researcher Isaac Zinda \u201920 have co-authored a paper \u201cMagnon-spinon dichotomy in the Kitaev hyperhoneycomb \u03b2\u2212Li\u2082IrO\u2083\u201d, which has been named an \u201cEditor\u2019s Suggestion\u201d in <em>Physical Review B<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn short, we used cutting-edge x-ray techniques to find evidence for never-observed \u2018particles\u2019 called magnons and spinons in an exotic magnetic compound, lithium iridate,\u201d Breznay, who studies emergent phenomena in quantum materials, explains. \u201cMaterials of this sort are candidates to realize new states of matter that could \u2018democratize\u2019 quantum computation and have other neat applications.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The work comes as a culmination of a collaborative effort across several institutions including UC San Diego, UC Berkeley, MIT, University of Minnesota and Argonne National Lab. Researchers made strides through several week-long, 24 hour-per-day &#8220;beamtime&#8221; experiments at Argonne National Lab&#8217;s world-class x-ray facility.<\/p>\n<p>Zinda participated in one of the beamtime experiments, \u201cdriving\u201d the million-dollar experimental setup in regular shifts, and leading real-time analysis and modeling for the project.<\/p>\n<p>At HMC, Breznay\u2019s Quantum Materials lab investigates these exotic states of matter\u2014superconductors, spin-liquid magnets, charge-ordered oxides and amorphous Anderson insulators\u2014using hands-on experiments. His group studies complex materials, measuring and modeling their electrical properties in extreme conditions of low temperatures, intense magnetic fields, and high pressures.<\/p>\n<p>Breznay has previously published 14 papers with <em>Physical Review B<\/em>, this being his first of the \u201cEditor\u2019s Suggestion&#8221; distinction. The paper was published May 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvey Mudd College Professor of Physics Nicholas Breznay \u201902 and student researcher Isaac Zinda \u201920 have co-authored a paper \u201cMagnon-spinon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":9157,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,24],"class_list":["post-9155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty","category-physics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}