News and announcements from the Li Group
Our paper "Strong Temperature Dependence of Thermal Conductivity in High-Purity Cubic Boron Arsenide" has been published in Physical Review B.
Our paper linking lattice and ionic dynamics with thermal transport in a garnet-type solid electrolyte has been published in PRX Energy.
Congratulations to Yaokun Su for successfully defending his PhD thesis "Magnetic and Lattice Dynamics in Condensed Matter: From Neutron Scattering to Data-Driven Modeling."
Our collaborative paper on anomalous neutron nuclear-magnetic interference spectroscopy has been published in Materials Today Physics.
Our paper "Observation of Chiral Magnon Band Splitting in Altermagnetic Hematite" has been published in Physical Review Letters.
Our paper "Selected magnetoelectrical phonon stiffening in Cr2O3" has been published in Physical Review B.
Our paper on the interplay of pressure and temperature in modulating the magnetic properties of Cr2O3 has been published in the Journal of Alloys and Compounds.
Our paper "Uncovering Obscured Phonon Dynamics from Powder Inelastic Neutron Scattering using Machine Learning" has been published in Machine Learning: Science and Technology.
Our paper "Temperature-dependent spin dynamics in Cr2O3" has been published in Physical Review B.
Congratulations to Qiyang Sun for successfully defending his PhD thesis "Spin and Lattice Dynamics, and Spin-phonon Interactions in Transition Metal Oxides."
Our paper "High-order phonon anharmonicity and thermal conductivity in GaN" has been published in Physical Review B.
We are looking for motivated PhD and Master's students to join our group. If you are interested in condensed matter physics, thermal transport, or neutron scattering, please contact Prof. Li.
Our paper on the thermal conductivity of boron arsenide under pressure has been published in Advanced Electronic Materials. In contrast to typical nonmetallic crystals, BAs shows pressure-independent thermal conductivity below 30 GPa.
Our paper "Distinct Acoustic and Optical Phonon Dependences on Particle Size, Oxidation, and Temperature in Silicon Nanocrystals" has been published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry C.
Our paper "Mutual spin-phonon driving effects and phonon eigenvector renormalization in nickel (II) oxide" has been published in PNAS.
Our paper on frustration-induced diffusive scattering anomaly and dimension change in FeGe2 has been published in Physical Review B.
Our paper revealing monolayer-like lattice dynamics in bulk WSe2 has been published in Materials Today Physics.
Our review paper "Phonon anharmonicity: a pertinent review of recent progress and perspective" has been published in SCIENCE CHINA Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy.
Our paper on the Matryoshka phonon dispersion in alpha-GaN has been published in Communications Physics.
Our paper on pressure- and temperature-dependent inelastic neutron scattering study of para-terphenyl has been published in PCCP.
Check out the virtual reality tour of the Spallation Neutron Source, where we do much of our neutron scattering research. Take the tour.
Our paper "Observation of Magnon Polarons in a Uniaxial Antiferromagnetic Insulator" has been published in Physical Review Letters.
The group is working fully remotely but we already started new neutron experiments with the help of instrument scientists at Oak Ridge! UCR is preparing to reopen the labs.
Our paper on giant low-temperature anharmonicity in silicon nanocrystals has been published in Physical Review Materials.
The group performed two experiments at the HERIX instrument at the Advanced Photon Source and three scattering experiments at the ARCS instrument at the Spallation Neutron Source this summer.
Bin Wei is visiting our group from Dr. Jiawang Hong's group in Beijing Institute of Technology for 6 months.
The group performed two ARCS experiments to investigate the spin-phonon interactions under magnetic field.
The group performed an experiment on the HERIX beamline at the Advanced Photon Source to study chiral phonons in low-symmetry materials.
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