Georgia Tech Cluster Beam Lab
PI: Walt de Heer

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Submitted \ In Preparation

  1. Giant Diamagnetic and Dia-electric Properties of Small Gold Clusters
    Lei Ma, Ramiro Moro, Baiqian Zhang, Ilia Larkin, John Indergaard, Hannu Häkkinen, Markus Kindermann, and Walt A. de Heer
    Submitted to Nature Communications

  2. The Small Inorganic Gold Complex Goes Magnetic
    Lei Ma, Antti J. Karttunen, Baiqian Zhang, John Indergaard, Ramiro Moro, Hannu Häkkinen, and Walt A. de Heer
    In Preparation

  3. The Size-Dependent Magnetic Response of Small Cobalt-Doped Silver Clusters Studied with Stern-Gerlach Deflection Experiments
    Lei Ma, Ewald Janessen, Xiaoshan Xu, Walt A. de Heer, and Peter Lievens
    In Preparation

  4. Two States of Magnetism of 3d Transition Metal Clusters
    Lei Ma, Xiaoshan Xu, Ramiro Moro, John Indergaard, and Walt A. de Heer
    In Preparation


Recent Publications

  1. Measured Atomic Ground-State Polarizabilities of 35 Metallic Elements
    Lei Ma, John Indergaard, Baiqian Zhang, Ilia Larkin, Ramiro Moro, and Walt A. de Heer
    Physical Review A: Rapid Communication 91 , 010501(R) (2015)
    (Featured as the first PRA Editor's Suggestion of 2015)

  2. Multiferroic Rhodium Clusters
    Lei Ma, Ramiro Moro, John Bowlan, and Walt A. de Heer
    Physical Review Letters 113 , 157203 (2014)
    (Featured in an article on nanotechweb.org)

  3. How Metallic are Small Sodium Clusters?
    John Bowlan, Anthony Liang and Walt A. de Heer
    Physical Review Letters 106 , 043401 (2011)

  4. Metastability of Free Cobalt and Iron Clusters: A Possible Precursor to Bulk Ferromagnetism
    Xiaoshan Xu, Shuangye Yin, Ramiro Moro, Anthony Liang, John Bowlan, and Walt A. de Heer
    Physical Review Letters 107 , 057203 (2011)

  5. The Effect of Oxygen Doping on the Magnetism of Tb and Pr Clusters
    C. N. van Dijk, John Bowlan, A. Kirilyuk, Anthony Liang, Th. Rasing, and Walt A. de Heer
    Journal of Applied Physics 107 , 09B526 (2010)

  6. Size-Dependent Magnetic Moments and Electric Polarizabilities of Free Tb, Ho, and Tm Clusters
    John Bowlan, C. N. van Dijk, A. Kirilyuk, Anthony Liang, Shuangye Yin, Th. Rasing, and Walt A. de Heer
    J. Appl. Physical 107 , 09B509 (2010)

  7. Distribution of Magnetization of a Cold Ferromagnetic Cluster Beam
    Xiaoshan Xu, Shuangye Yin, Ramiro Moro, and Walt A. de Heer
    Physical Review B 78 , 054430 (2008)

  8. Electron Pairing in Ferroelectric Niobium and Niobium Alloy Clusters
    Shuangye Yin, Xiaoshan Xu, Anthony Liang, John Bowlan, Ramiro Moro, and Walt A. de Heer
    Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism 21 , 265 (2008)

  9. Nonclassical Dipoles in Cold Niobium Clusters
    Xiaoshan Xu, Shuangye Yin, Ramiro Moro, Anthony Liang, John Bowlan, and Walt A. de Heer
    Physical Review B 75 , 85429 (2007)

  10. Magnetic Enhancement in Cobalt- Manganese Alloy Clusters
    Shuangye Yin, Ramiro Moro, Xiaoshan Xu, and Walt A. de Heer
    Physical Review Letters 98 , 113401 (2007)

  11. Measurement of Magnetic Moments of Free BiN MnM Clusters
    Shuangye Yin, Xiaoshan Xu, Ramiro Moro, and Walt A. de Heer
    Physical Review B 72 , 174410 (2005)

  12. Magnetic Moments and Adiabatic Magnetization of Free Cobalt Clusters
    Xiaoshan Xu, Shuangye Yin, Ramiro Moro, and Walt A. de Heer
    Physical Review Letters 95 , 237209 (2005)

  13. Spin Uncoupling in Free Nb Clusters: Support for Nascent Superconductivity
    Ramiro Moro, Shuangye Yin, Xiaoshan Xu, and Walt A. de Heer
    Physical Review Letters 93 , 86803 (2004)

  14. Ferroelectricity in Free Niobium Clusters
    Ramiro Moro, Xiaoshan Xu, Shuangye Yin, and Walt A. de Heer
    Science. 300 , 1265 (2003)


Notable Publications

  1. Magnetism from the Atom to the Bulk in Iron, Cobalt, and Nickel Clusters
    Isabelle M.L. Billas, A. Châtelain, Walt A. de Heer
    Science, Vol. 265 No. 5179 (1994) ; (Cited 900 times)

  2. Magnetic Moments of Iron Clusters with 25 to 700 Atoms and Their Dependence on Temperature
    Isabelle M. L. Billas, J. A. Becker, A. Châtelain, and Walt A. de Heer
    Physical Review Letters 71 , 4067 (1993) ; (Cited 407 times)

  3. The Physics of Simple Metal Clusters: Experimental Aspects and Simple Models
    Walt A. de Heer
    Review of Modern Physics 65 , 611 (1990) ; (Cited 2,417 times)

  4. Experimental and Theoretical Electric Dipole Polarizabilities of Al and Al2
    Paolo Milani, I. Moullet, and Walt A. de Heer
    Physical Review A 42 , 5150 (1993) ; (Cited 38 times)

  5. Spin Relaxation in Small Free Iron Clusters
    Walt A. de Heer
    Physical Review Letters 65 , 488 (1990) ; (Cited 321 times)

  6. Nonjellium-to-Jellium Transition in Aluminum Cluster Polarizabilities
    Walt A. de Heer, Paolo Milani, and A. Châtelain
    Physical Review Letters 63 , 2834 (1989) ; (Cited 140 times)

  7. Collective Dipole Oscillations in Small Sodium Clusters
    Walt A. de Heer, Kathy Selby, Vitaly Kresin, Jun Masui, Michael Vollmer, A. Châtelain, and Walter D. Knight
    Physical Review Letters 59 , 1805 (1987) ; (Cited 308 times)

  8. Electronic Shell Structure and Abundances of Sodium Clusters
    Walter D. Knight, Keith Clemenger, Walt A. de Heer, Winston A. Saunders, M. Y. Chou, and Marvin L. Cohen
    Physical Review Letters 52 , 2141 (1984) ; (Cited 1,896 times)

*Citation information last updated May 8, 2015


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