Publications 2012

Revija: J. Phys.: Condens. Matter.

Volumen: 24

Prva stran: 085703

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Leto: 2012

Povezava:Obišči stran

Avtorji: Klanjšek Martin , 373, 294, Jeglič Peter, Dolinšek Janez

The PdGa intermetallic compound is a highly selective and stable heterogeneous hydrogenation catalyst for the semi-hydrogenation of acetylene. We have studied single crystals of PdGa grown by the Czochralski technique. The 69Ga electric-field-gradient (EFG) tensor was determined by means of NMR spectroscopy, giving experimental confirmation of both the recently refined structural model of PdGa and the theoretically predicted Pd–Ga covalent bonding scheme. The hydrogenation experiment has detected no hydrogen uptake in the PdGa, thus preventing in situ hydride formation that leads to a reduction of the catalytic selectivity. We have also determined bulk physical properties (the magnetic susceptibility, the electrical resistivity, the thermoelectric power, the Hall coefficient, the thermal conductivity and the specific heat) of single-crystalline PdGa. The results show that PdGa is a diamagnet with metallic electrical resistivity and moderately high thermal conductivity. The thermoelectric power is negative with complicated temperature dependence, whereas the Hall coefficient is positive and temperature-dependent, indicating complexity of the Fermi surface. Partial fulfillment of the NMR Korringa relation reveals that the charge carriers are weakly correlated. Specific heat measurements show that the density of electronic states (DOS) at the Fermi energy of PdGa is reduced to 15% of the DOS of the elemental Pd metal.

Revija: Phys. Rev. B

Volumen: 85

Prva stran: 024205

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Leto: 2012

Povezava:Obišči stran

Avtorji: 294, Jeglič Peter, Klanjšek Martin , Dolinšek Janez

To address the questions on the anisotropy of bulk physical properties of decagonal quasicrystals and the intrinsic physical properties of the d-Al-Co-Ni phase, we investigated the anisotropic magnetic susceptibility, the electrical resistivity, the thermoelectric power, the Hall coefficient, and the thermal conductivity of a d-Al-Co-Ni single crystal of exceptional structural quality. Superior structural order on the local scale of atomic clusters was confirmed by 27Al nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. The measurements were performed in the 10-fold periodic direction of the structure and in three specific crystallographic directions within the quasiperiodic plane, corresponding to the 2 and 2′ twofold symmetry directions and their bisector. The specific heat, being a scalar quantity, was determined as well. The measurements of the second-rank bulk tensorial properties confirm the theoretical prediction that a solid of decagonal point group symmetry should exhibit isotropic physical properties within the quasiperiodic plane and anisotropy between the in-plane and the 10-fold directions. d-Al-Co-Ni is an anisotropic diamagnet with stronger diamagnetism for the magnetic field in the 10-fold direction. Electrical and thermal transport is strongly metallic in the 10-fold direction but largely suppressed within the quasiperiodic plane, the main reason being the lack of translational periodicity that hinders the propagation of electrons and phonons in a nonperiodic lattice. The third-rank Hall-coefficient tensor shows sign-reversal anisotropy related to the direction of the magnetic field when applied in the 10-fold direction or within the quasiperiodic plane. The observed anisotropy is not a peculiarity of quasicrystals but should be a general feature of solids with broken translational periodicity in two dimensions.

Revija: Phys. Rev. Lett.

Volumen: 109

Prva stran: 177206

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Leto: 2012

Povezava:Obišči stran

Avtorji: Klanjšek Martin

By means of nuclear spin-lattice relaxation rate T1-1, we follow the spin dynamics as a function of the applied magnetic field in two gapped quasi-one-dimensional quantum antiferromagnets: the anisotropic spin-chain system NiCl2-4SC(NH2)2 and the spin-ladder system (C5H12N)2CuBr4. In both systems, spin excitations are confirmed to evolve from magnons in the gapped state to spinons in the gapless Tomonaga-Luttinger-liquid state. In between, T1-1 exhibits a pronounced, continuous variation, which is shown to scale in accordance with quantum criticality. We extract the critical exponent for T1-1, compare it to the theory, and show that this behavior is identical in both studied systems, thus demonstrating the universality of quantum-critical behavior.