The PSI Laboratory for Neutron Scattering and Imaging conducts cutting-edge research at the Swiss Spallation Neutron Source SINQ.
Lab News & Scientific Highlights
In-situ neutron tomography study of a dehydrating and hydrating packed bed for thermochemical heat storage
To study the heat and water vapor transport and reaction kinetics in a packed bed of thermo-chemical material on both reactor and tablet level, an in-situ neutron imaging study of a dehydrating and subsequently hydrating packed bed consisting of cylindrical K2 CO3 tablets was performed at the Paul Scherrer Institute ...
Field-Induced Magnon Decay, Magnon Shadows, and Rotonlike Excitations in the Honeycomb Antiferromagnet YbBr3
The search for new quantum many-body phenomena in magnetic materials has a strong focus on highly frustrated systems and the resulting quantum spin-liquid state. However, even unfrustrated magnetic materials show a multitude of unconventional features in their spin excitation spectra. By using the synergy of ...
Generating structured foam via flowing through a wire array
Efficient manufacturing methods could unlock foams with tailored, anisotropic properties. Conventional foam production methods rely on the self-arrangement of bubbles, typically leading to isotropic materials, or involve intricate additive layering processes. This study presents a simple, passive technique to modify the foam structure. A set of thin parallel wires ...
Recent publications
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Moody SH, Bereciartua PJ, Francoual S, Littlehales MT, Wilson MN, Gomilšek M, et al.
Local Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions driving quasi-2D magnetism in a centrosymmetric nanoskyrmion material
Physical Review Letters. 2025; 135(7): 076706 (8 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1103/td2c-dxgj
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Sukhanov AS, Utesov OI, Korshunov AN, Andriushin ND, Pavlovskii MS, Nikitin SE, et al.
Strong magnon-phonon coupling in the kagome antiferromagnets
Physical Review Letters. 2025; 135(8): 086703 (9 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1103/gymx-jk1g
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Nabi SD, Zhu M, Povarov KY, Mazzone DG, Lass J, Wu Y, et al.
Spin-flop-like transition as quantum critical point in Cs2RuO4
Physical Review B. 2025; 112(13): 134436 (12 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1103/bds5-vkvm
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