Emergent phenomena in Bi-based systems with low dimensionality

• Grant number: 19/26247-9
• Support type: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Effective date (Start): July 01, 2020
• Effective date (End): February 28, 2023
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Physics - Condensed Matter Physics
• Principal researcher: Pascoal Jose Giglio Pagliuso
• Grantee: Gabriel Silva Freitas
• Home Institution: Instituto de Física Gleb Wataghin (IFGW). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 17/10581-1 - Emergent phenomena in reduced dimension systems, AP.TEM

Abstract

In this work, we propose to investigate emergent phenomena such as unconventional superconductivity, complex magnetism and nontrivial topology in different Bismuth (Bi) systems with low dimensionality (2D and 1D). To achieve this goal, we will develop a systematic of synthesis of several classes of these compounds, using the metallic flux growth technique for the synthesis of the single crystal with layered crystal structures (quasi-2D), as well as the metallic flux nanonucleation (MFNN) (Patent of our thematic group - national BR 10 2014 019794 0 and international WO2016023089) to obtain nanowires (1D) of these compounds. After the synthesis, we will study the structural, elementary, magnetic, electronic and thermodynamic properties to highlight the effects of low dimensional structures on the physical properties of these materials.Specifically, we will work with the RMBi2, RM2Bi families (R = Rare Earth, M = Transition Metal) and Sb1-xBix alloys investigating both a possible state of unconventional superconductivity and the emergence of nontrivial topological states and complex magnetism (magnetic frustration, multiple wave vector ordering, multipolar orders). These characteristics come from the competition between anisotropic magnetic interactions, Crystalline Electric Field (CEF) effects, Kondo effect, Spin-orbit interaction and electronic structure with nontrivial topology possibly present in these families and strongly affected by the low dimensionality of the systems. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

CHRISTOVAM, D. S.; FREITAS, G. S.; PIVA, M. M.; SOUZA, J. C.; MALCOLMS, M. O.; CANTON, O. L.; LEAO, J. B.; RATCLIFF, W.; LYNN, J. W.; ADRIANO, C.; PAGLIUSO, P. G. Evolution of the magnetic properties in the antiferromagnet Ce2RhIn8 simultaneously doped with Cd and Ir. Physical Review B, v. 102, n. 19 NOV 20 2020. Web of Science Citations: 0.

FREITAS, G. S.; PIVA, M. M.; GROSSI, R.; JESUS, C. B. R.; SOUZA, J. C.; CHRISTOVAM, D. S.; OLIVEIRA, N. F.; LEAO, J. B.; ADRIANO, C.; LYNN, J. W.; PAGLIUSO, P. G. Tuning the crystalline electric field and magnetic anisotropy along the CeCuBi2-xSbx series. Physical Review B, v. 102, n. 15 OCT 20 2020. Web of Science Citations: 0.