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DOE OSTI2019

Negative differential resistance and quantum oscillations in FeSb 2 with embedded antimony

We present a systematical study on single crystalline FeSb 2 using electrical transport and magnetic torque measurements at low temperatures. Nonlinear magnetic field dependence of Hall resistivity demonstrates a multi-carrier transport instinct of the electronic transport. Current-controlled negative differential resistance (CC-NDR) observed in current–voltage characteristics below ~ 7 K is closely associated with the intrinsic transition ~ 5 K of FeSb 2 , which is, however, mediated by extrinsic current-induced Joule heating effect. The antimony crystallized in a preferred orientation within the FeSb 2 lattice in the high-temperature synthesis process leaves its fingerprint in the de Haas-Van Alphen (dHvA) oscillations, and results in the regular angular dependence of the oscillating frequencies. Nevertheless, possible existence of intrinsic non-trivial states cannot be completely ruled out. Our findings call for further theoretical and experimental studies to explore novel physics on flux-free grown FeSb 2 crystals.

36 MATERIALS SCIENCE↗
DOE OSTI2021

Time-dependent experimental identification of inter-ELM microtearing modes in the tokamak edge on DIII-D

In a series of discharges on the DIII-D tokamak, fast vertical plasma jogs are used to induce current perturbations in the steep gradient region of the H-mode edge. These current perturbations directly influence the edge q profile, decoupling the resonant location and instability drive of pedestal-localized microtearing modes (MTMs.) By exploiting this effect, we develop and apply a new experimental technique to track the dynamical frequency evolution of MTMs in the pedestal region, providing a compelling validation of the MTM model. The frequency of potential MTMs is calculated as the Doppler-shifted electron diamagnetic frequency at rational q=m/n surfaces, showing remarkable agreement with chirped frequency behavior of n=3, 4 and 5 modes detected with fast magnetics. Data is collected throughout multiple ELM cycles in order to build robust statistics describing the time-dependent frequency evolution of MTMs, which can be explained by examining the recovery of pedestal gradients after an ELM event. MTMs have a dominant transport contribution in the electron thermal channel, so the presented results indicate that reduced models of pedestal transport must be electromagnetic in nature and constructed with accurate calculations of MTM stability; inclusion of this physics is essential for accurate predictions of the electron temperature pedestal profile. Supporting measurements of mode saturation, propagation direction and transport fingerprints are made to support the dynamic frequency determination, unambiguously and experimentally identifying MTMs in the pedestal region of DIII-D.

70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY↗
DOE OSTI2024

Inter-ELM pedestal turbulence dynamics dependence on q 95 and temperature gradient

A series of dedicated experiments from DIII-D tokamak provide spatially and temporally resolved measurements of electron density and temperature, and multiscale and multichannel fluctuations over a wide range of conditions. Measurements of long wavelength density fluctuations in the type-I ELMing H-mode pedestal routinely revealed a coexistence of multiple instabilities that exhibit dramatic different dynamic behaviors as q 95 and temperature gradient are varied, apparently responsible for limiting pedestal temperature profiles. Two distinct frequency bands of density fluctuations are modulated with ELM cycle with frequency above 200kHz propagating in the electron diamagnetic direction in the lab frame (electron mode) and below 200kHz propagating in the ion diamagnetic direction (ion mode). The electron mode amplitude peaks near the electron temperature gradient region and increases with q 95 which seems to be correlated with the increased χ e at higher q 95 , similar to the characteristics expected for Micro-tearing Mode (MTM). At higher q 95 , during the inter-ELM period, the ion mode decays at later phase of the ELM cycle. Consistently, the poloidal correlation length of the ion mode is also found to reduce which suggests the possible E×B flow shear suppression of ion mode at later phase of the ELM cycle as the Er well recovers. In contrast, the electron mode grows during the ELM cycle and reaches saturation at around 50-60% of ELM period. Linear gyrokinetic simulations find the MTMs as the most unstable mode in the pedestal electron temperature gradient region. The higher q 95 and lower magnetic shear destabilize MTMs. These observations provide key insights of the underlying physics of multifield properties and rich dataset of experimental 'fingerprints' that enable new tests of the theoretical pedestal models and lead to developing a predictive model for pedestal formation on ITER and future burning plasma experiments.

70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY↗
DOE OSTI2015

Disentangling climatic and anthropogenic controls on global terrestrial evapotranspiration trends

Here, we examined natural and anthropogenic controls on terrestrial evapotranspiration (ET) changes from 1982-2010 using multiple estimates from remote sensing-based datasets and process-oriented land surface models. A significant increased trend of ET in each hemisphere was consistently revealed by observationally-constrained data and multi-model ensembles that considered historic natural and anthropogenic drivers. The climate impacts were simulated to determine the spatiotemporal variations in ET. Globally, rising CO 2 ranked second in these models after the predominant climatic influences, and yielded a decreasing trend in canopy transpiration and ET, especially for tropical forests and high-latitude shrub land. Increased nitrogen deposition slightly amplified global ET via enhanced plant growth. Land-use-induced ET responses, albeit with substantial uncertainties across the factorial analysis, were minor globally, but pronounced locally, particularly over regions with intensive land-cover changes. Our study highlights the importance of employing multi-stream ET and ET-component estimates to quantify the strengthening anthropogenic fingerprint in the global hydrologic cycle.

54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES↗
DOE OSTI2016

Historically hottest summers projected to be the norm for more than half of the world’s population within 20 years

We project that within the next two decades, half of the world's population will regularly (every second summer on average) experience regional summer mean temperatures that exceed those of the historically hottest summer, even under the moderate RCP4.5 emissions pathway. This frequency threshold for hot temperatures over land, which have adverse effects on human health, society and economy, might be broached in little more than a decade under the RCP8.5 emissions pathway. These hot summer frequency projections are based on adjusted RCP4.5 and 8.5 temperature projections, where the adjustments are performed with scaling factors determined by regularized optimal fingerprinting analyzes that compare historical model simulations with observations over the period 1950-2012. A temperature reconstruction technique is then used to simulate a multitude of possible past and future temperature evolutions, from which the probability of a hot summer is determined for each region, with a hot summer being defined as the historically warmest summer on record in that region. Probabilities with and without external forcing show that hot summers are now about ten times more likely (fraction of attributable risk 0.9) in many regions of the world than they would have been in the absence of past greenhouse gas increases. In conclusion, the adjusted future projections suggest that the Mediterranean, Sahara, large parts of Asia and the Western US and Canada will be among the first regions for which hot summers will become the norm (i.e. occur on average every other year), and that this will occur within the next 1-2 decades.

54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES↗
DOE OSTI2013

WATER-PLANETS IN THE HABITABLE ZONE: ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY, OBSERVABLE FEATURES, AND THE CASE OF KEPLER-62e AND -62f

Planets composed of large quantities of water that reside in the habitable zone are expected to have distinct geophysics and geochemistry of their surfaces and atmospheres. We explore these properties motivated by two key questions: whether such planets could provide habitable conditions and whether they exhibit discernable spectral features that distinguish a water-planet from a rocky Earth-like planet. We show that the recently discovered planets Kepler-62e and -62f are the first viable candidates for habitable zone water-planets. We use these planets as test cases for discussing those differences in detail. We generate atmospheric spectral models and find that potentially habitable water-planets show a distinctive spectral fingerprint in transit depending on their position in the habitable zone.

79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS↗
DOE OSTI2014

POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS WITH ARMCHAIR EDGES AND THE 12.7 μm BAND

In this Letter, we report the results of density functional theory calculations on medium-sized neutral polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) molecules with armchair edges. These PAH molecules possess strong C-H stretching and bending modes around 3 μm and in the fingerprint region (10-15 μm), and also strong ring deformation modes around 12.7 μm. Perusal of the entries in the NASA Ames PAHs Database shows that ring deformation modes of PAHs are common, although generally weak. Therefore, we propose that armchair PAHs with N{sub C} > 65 are responsible for the 12.7 μm aromatic infrared band in H II regions and discuss the astrophysical implications in the context of the PAH life cycle.

79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS↗
DOE OSTI2015

THE HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE UV LEGACY SURVEY OF GALACTIC GLOBULAR CLUSTERS: THE INTERNAL KINEMATICS OF THE MULTIPLE STELLAR POPULATIONS IN NGC 2808

Numerous observational studies have revealed the ubiquitous presence of multiple stellar populations in globular clusters and cast many difficult challenges for the study of the formation and dynamical history of these stellar systems. In this Letter we present the results of a study of the kinematic properties of multiple populations in NGC 2808 based on high-precision Hubble Space Telescope proper-motion measurements. In a recent study, Milone et al. identified five distinct populations (A–E) in NGC 2808. Populations D and E coincide with the helium-enhanced populations in the middle and the blue main sequences (mMS and bMS) previously discovered by Piotto et al.; populations A–C correspond to the redder main sequence that, in Piotto et al., was associated with the primordial stellar population. Our analysis shows that, in the outermost regions probed (between about 1.5 and 2 times the cluster half-light radius), the velocity distribution of populations D and E is radially anisotropic (the deviation from an isotropic distribution is significant at the ∼3.5σ level). Stars of populations D and E have a smaller tangential velocity dispersion than those of populations A–C, while no significant differences are found in the radial velocity dispersion. We present the results of a numerical simulation showing that the observed differences between the kinematics of these stellar populations are consistent with the expected kinematic fingerprint of the diffusion toward the cluster outer regions of stellar populations initially more centrally concentrated.

79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS↗
DOE OSTI2017

Anomalous vibrational modes in few layer WTe 2 revealed by polarized Raman scattering and first-principles calculations

When layered transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are scaled down from a three- to a two-dimensional geometry, electronic and structural transitions occur, leading to the emergence of properties not usually found in the bulk. Here, we report a systematic Raman study of exfoliated semi-metallic WTe 2 flakes with thickness ranging from few layers down to a single layer. A dramatic change in the Raman spectra occurs between the monolayer and few-layer WTe 2 as a vibrational mode centered at ~86.9 cm -1 in the monolayer splits into two active modes at 82.9 and 89.6 cm -1 in the bilayer. Davydov splitting of these two modes is found in the bilayer, as further evidenced by polarized Raman measurements. Strong angular dependence of Raman modes on the WTe 2 film thickness reflects that the existence of directional interlayer interaction, rather than isotropic van der Waals (vdw) coupling, is playing an essential role affecting the phonon modes, especially in anisotropic 2D WTe 2 material. Therefore, the strong evolution of Raman modes with thickness and polarization direction, can not only be a reliable fingerprint for the determination of the thickness and the crystallographic orientation, but can also be an ideal probe for such strong and directional interlayer interaction.

36 MATERIALS SCIENCE↗
DOE OSTI2018

Anomalous interlayer vibrations in strongly coupled layered PdSe 2

In this work, we show unusual effects of strong interlayer coupling on low-frequency (LF) Raman scattering in exfoliated PdSe 2 crystals with different number of layers. Unlike many other layered materials, it is found that the measured frequencies of the breathing modes cannot be simply described by a conventional linear chain model (LCM) that treats each layer as a single rigid object. By using first-principles calculations, we show that strong deviations from layer rigidity can occur for the LF breathing vibrations of PdSe 2 , which accounts for the observed disagreement with the conventional LCM. The layer non-rigidity and strong interlayer coupling could also explain the unusual strong intensities of the LF breathing modes that are comparable with those of the high-frequency Raman modes. These strong intensities allowed us to use a set of the measured LF Raman lines as unique fingerprints for a precise assignment of the layer numbers. The assignment of the layer numbers was further confirmed using second harmonic generation that appeared only in the noncentrosymmetric even-layer PdSe 2 crystals. In conclusion, this work thus demonstrates a simple and fast approach for the determination of the number of layers in 2D materials with strong interlayer coupling and non-rigid interlayer vibrations.

2D materials↗
DOE OSTI2019

Modeling the Kondo effect of a magnetic atom adsorbed on graphene

The Kondo effect due to a magnetic atom adsorbed on graphene is investigated using two theoretical approaches, including the non-equilibrium Green's function method within the slave-boson mean-field approximation and a newly developed tight-binding (TB) model with an effectively infinite Hubbard U term. Both methods reveal the presence of a Kondo peak in the local density of state (LDOS) of graphene near the Fermi level. A sharp Kondo peak is only observed in the odd-neighboring C sites of the C atom directly below the magnetic atom placed in top position. The peak intensity is found to decay quickly with respect to the distance between the C site and the magnetic atom. A theoretical model of scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) of graphene is presented as a means to identify the manifestation of the Kondo effect via direct topographic STM measurements. STM simulations show that in the proximity of the magnetic atom, only the C atoms of one sublattice are visible at low bias potential and thus a triangular lattice can be seen, in agreement with recent experiments. Further away from the magnetic atom, the Kondo effect dies down and eventually both sublattices are visible, leading to the recovery of the hexagonal lattice. Furthermore, this work not only provides a new TB method to study the Kondo effect in graphene, but also presents both scanning tunneling spectroscopy and microscopy fingerprints of the Kondo effect to facilitate its experimental verification.

36 MATERIALS SCIENCE↗
DOE OSTI2021

Electric-field-tunable electronic nematic order in twisted double-bilayer graphene

Graphene-based moiré systems have attracted considerable interest in recent years as they display a remarkable variety of correlated phenomena. Besides insulating and superconducting phases in the vicinity of integer fillings of the moiré unit cell, there is growing evidence for electronic nematic order both in twisted bilayer graphene and twisted double-bilayer graphene (tDBG), as signaled by the spontaneous breaking of the threefold rotational symmetry of the moiré superlattices. Here, we combine symmetry-based analysis with a microscopic continuum model to investigate the structure of the nematic phase of tDBG and its experimental manifestations. First, we perform a detailed comparison between the theoretically calculated local density of states and recent scanning tunneling microscopy data (arXiv:2009.11645) to resolve the internal structure of the nematic order parameter in terms of the layer, sublattice, spin, and valley degrees of freedom. We find strong evidence that the dominant contribution to the nematic order parameter comes from states at the moiré scale rather than at the microscopic scale of the individual graphene layers, which demonstrates the key role played by the moiré degrees of freedom and confirms the correlated nature of the nematic phase in tDBG. Secondly, our analysis reveals an unprecedented tunability of the orientation of the nematic director in tDBG by an externally applied electric field, allowing the director to rotate away from high-symmetry crystalline directions. Here, we compute the expected fingerprints of this rotation in both STM and transport experiments, providing feasible ways to probe it. Rooted in the strong sensitivity of the flat bands of tDBG to the displacement field, this effect opens an interesting route to the electrostatic control of electronic nematicity in moiré systems.

36 MATERIALS SCIENCE↗
DOE OSTI2021

Large aperture and durable glass-engraved optical metasurfaces using nanoparticle etching masks: prospects and future directions

Abstract Metasurfaces (MSs), or surfaces consisting of engineered spatially oriented sub-wavelength elements—also known as meta-atoms—are quickly becoming a burgeoning field of interest due to their seemingly unparalleled control over the propagation of light. This article will discuss the emergence of a MS technology that is based on dewetting thin metal films to form dry etching masks for MS fabrication. The novelty this process presents is the ability to spatially vary mask features—which translates into spatially varying index of the finished surface—in a way that, rather than writing subwavelength elements one-by-one, writes entire areas at once to provide a route to easily scale the process up to meter-sized optics. Glass-engraved MSs have shown to be laser damage resistant, with damage thresholds close to the parent substrate damage thresholds. Furthermore, these surfaces have proven to be mechanically durable and capable of handling normal loads two orders of magnitude higher than that of an average fingerprint pressure. This indicates that accidental handling contact is not detrimental to the MS optical performance. Also discussed are the foreseeable technological challenges, potential solutions for those obstacles, and some currently unexplored directions for future efforts.

47 OTHER INSTRUMENTATION↗
DOE OSTI2021

MS2Planner: improved fragmentation spectra coverage in untargeted mass spectrometry by iterative optimized data acquisition

Motivation: Untargeted mass spectrometry experiments enable the profiling of metabolites in complex biological samples. The collected fragmentation spectra are the metabolite’s fingerprints that are used for molecule identification and discovery. Two main mass spectrometry strategies exist for the collection of fragmentation spectra: data-dependent acquisition (DDA) and data-independent acquisition (DIA). In the DIA strategy, all the metabolites ions in predefined mass-to-charge ratio ranges are co-isolated and co-fragmented, resulting in multiplexed fragmentation spectra that are challenging to annotate. In contrast, in the DDA strategy, fragmentation spectra are dynamically and specifically collected for the most abundant ions observed, causing redundancy and sub-optimal fragmentation spectra collection. Yet, DDA results in less multiplexed fragmentation spectra that can be readily annotated. Results: We introduce the MS2Planner workflow, an Iterative Optimized Data Acquisition strategy that optimizes the number of high-quality fragmentation spectra over multiple experimental acquisitions using topological sorting. Our results showed that MS2Planner increases the annotation rate by 38.6% and is 62.5% more sensitive and 9.4% more specific compared to DDA. Availability and implementation MS2Planner code is available at https://github.com/mohimanilab/MS2Planner. The generation of the inclusion list from MS2Planner was performed with python scripts available at https://github.com/lfnothias/IODA_MS.

47 OTHER INSTRUMENTATION↗
DOE OSTI2015

The Release 6 reference sequence of the Drosophila melanogaster genome

Drosophila melanogaster plays an important role in molecular, genetic, and genomic studies of heredity, development, metabolism, behavior, and human disease. The initial reference genome sequence reported more than a decade ago had a profound impact on progress in Drosophila research, and improving the accuracy and completeness of this sequence continues to be important to further progress. We previously described improvement of the 117-Mb sequence in the euchromatic portion of the genome and 21 Mb in the heterochromatic portion, using a whole-genome shotgun assembly, BAC physical mapping, and clone-based finishing. Here, we report an improved reference sequence of the single-copy and middle-repetitive regions of the genome, produced using cytogenetic mapping to mitotic and polytene chromosomes, clone-based finishing and BAC fingerprint verification, ordering of scaffolds by alignment to cDNA sequences, incorporation of other map and sequence data, and validation by whole-genome optical restriction mapping. These data substantially improve the accuracy and completeness of the reference sequence and the order and orientation of sequence scaffolds into chromosome arm assemblies. Representation of the Y chromosome and other heterochromatic regions is particularly improved. The new 143.9-Mb reference sequence, designated Release 6, effectively exhausts clone-based technologies for mapping and sequencing. Highly repeat-rich regions, including large satellite blocks and functional elements such as the ribosomal RNA genes and the centromeres, are largely inaccessible to current sequencing and assembly methods and remain poorly represented. In conclusion, further significant improvements will require sequencing technologies that do not depend on molecular cloning and that produce very long reads.

59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES↗
DOE OSTI2026

Muon-induced fission of actinide nuclei

A negative muon captured by an actinide cascades down through the muonic atomic levels; deeply bound transitions can proceed via inverse internal conversion, depositing the muonic transition energy directly into the nucleus and, when the deposited energy exceeds the fission barrier, inducing prompt fission. Because the muon mean lifetime exceeds the saddle-to-scission timescale by orders of magnitude, the muon can survive the entire fission event as a 1⁢𝑠 spectator and ultimately attach to one or both of the emerging fragments. Its postscission attachment probability to the light fragment, 𝑃 𝐿 , can be used as a direct electromagnetic probe of fission dynamics on a timescale of 10 −21 s. In previous work, we introduced a three-dimensional lattice solution of the time-dependent Dirac equation coupled to the electromagnetic field generated by a fissioning nucleus and reported 𝑃 𝐿 for several actinides at a single dissipation strength. In this work, we extend that framework to a systematic survey of 232 Th , 238 U , and 240 Pu and implement a more realistic fission model which incorporates dynamic pairing correlations. We find that 𝑃 𝐿 falls steeply with the fragment charge asymmetry, a robust structural fingerprint of the fissioning system, while its dependence on nuclear dissipation is secondary and sensitive to the phenomenological friction prescription. These results establish 𝑃 𝐿 as a clean electromagnetic probe of fragment charge asymmetry and motivate a self-consistent, coordinate- and time-dependent treatment of nuclear dissipation as the natural next step.

73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS↗
DOE OSTI2025

Anisotropic electron damping and energy gap in Bi 2 ⁢Sr 2 ⁢CaCu 2 ⁢O 8+𝛿

The many-body electron-electron interaction in cuprates causes broadening of the electronic bands in 𝒌 space, leading to a deviation from the standard Fermi liquid. While a 𝒌-dependent anisotropic electronic scattering (𝒌-DAES) has been assessed by photoemission, its fingerprint in 𝑸 space has been scarcely considered. Here, we explore the 𝑸-dependent electron dynamics in optimally doped Bi 2⁢ Sr 2 ⁢CaCu 2 ⁢O 8+𝛿 through the evolution of low-energy charge excitations as measured by resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS). In the normal state, the RIXS spectra display a continuum of excitations down to 0 meV, while the superconducting state features a spectral weight suppression below 80 meV without any enhancement at higher energies. To interpret the energy and 𝑸 evolution of our data, we introduce a phenomenological expression of the charge susceptibility by including the 𝒌-DAES. We show that only the charge susceptibility with 𝒌-DAES captures the RIXS data, highlighting the importance of 𝒌-DAES when describing the 𝑸 dependence of charge excitations from 0 to a few eV scale. Furthermore, we also find that the inclusion of 𝒌-DAES is essential when quantitative parameters such as the electronic energy gap are extracted from RIXS data.

36 MATERIALS SCIENCE↗
DOE OSTI2024

Vibrational Cooper minima used to verify the dissociation pathway induced by a short intense laser pulse

Vibrational Cooper minima due to weak dipole coupling were previously observed in strong-field dissociation of H 2⁡ + as minima in the kinetic-energy-release (KER) spectrum [McKenna et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 103006 (2009)]. We demonstrate in two independent experiments that these vibrational Cooper minima occur more generally and can be used as “fingerprints” to identify the final electronic state in the dissociation pathway. In the first experiment, we show the wavelength dependence of the vibrational Cooper minima observed in the KER spectrum of O 2⁢ + dissociation induced by 396- and 264-nm photons. These minima appear at the locations predicted by our first-order perturbation-theory calculations. In the second experiment, a delay-dependent KER spectrum is obtained from O 2 using an ionizing pump and a dissociating probe, then Fourier-transformed to generate a spin-rotation quantum beat spectrum of O 2 ⁢+ . As a result, this spectrum shows vibrational Cooper minima at the expected locations, confirming their presence in another observable. In this case, these minima are used to identify the dissociation pathway.

Molecular dissociation↗