Publications by authors named "Muntaser Naamneh"

Article Synopsis
  • Nanoscale inhomogeneity significantly affects the properties of two-dimensional van der Waals materials, particularly in FeSeS where sulfur replaces selenium.
  • This substitution leads to variations in Fe-Ch bond lengths and increases disorder when the sulfur concentration is between 0.4 and 0.8, which lowers the superconducting transition temperature.
  • The high-temperature metallic resistivity surpasses the expected limits, indicating a new scattering mechanism linked to the disorder of Se/S atoms around iron, which may involve complex charge or magnetic behaviors.
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Charge neutrality and their expected itinerant nature makes excitons potential transmitters of information. However, exciton mobility remains inaccessible to traditional optical experiments that only create and detect excitons with negligible momentum. Here, using angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, we detect dispersing excitons in the quasi-one-dimensional metallic trichalcogenide, TaSe.

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Employing X-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD), angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES), and momentum-resolved density fluctuation (MRDF) theory, the magnetic and electronic properties of ultrathin NdNiO (NNO) film in proximity to ferromagnetic (FM) La Sr MnO (LSMO) layer are investigated. The experimental data shows the direct magnetic coupling between the nickelate film and the manganite layer which causes an unusual ferromagnetic (FM) phase in NNO. Moreover, it is shown the metal-insulator transition in the NNO layer, identified by an abrupt suppression of ARPES spectral weight near the Fermi level (E ), is absent.

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In the high spin-orbit-coupled SrIrO, the high sensitivity of the ground state to the details of the local lattice structure shows a large potential for the manipulation of the functional properties by inducing local lattice distortions. We use epitaxial strain to modify the Ir-O bond geometry in SrIrO and perform momentum-dependent resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) at the metal and at the ligand sites to unveil the response of the low-energy elementary excitations. We observe that the pseudospin-wave dispersion for tensile-strained SrIrO films displays large softening along the [h,0] direction, while along the [h,h] direction it shows hardening.

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We report the discovery of topological magnetism in the candidate magnetic Weyl semimetal CeAlGe. Using neutron scattering we find this system to host several incommensurate, square-coordinated multi-k[over →] magnetic phases below T_{N}. The topological properties of a phase stable at intermediate magnetic fields parallel to the c axis are suggested by observation of a topological Hall effect.

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