Showing 9 results for Researcher: Tom Berlijn
January 16, 2026
6 MIN READ
Researchers at ORNL are pioneering the design and synthesis of quantum materials, which are central to discovery science involving synergies with quantum computation. These innovative materials, including magnetic compounds with honeycomb-patterned lattices, have the potential to host states of matter with exotic behavior.
July 25, 2023
1 MIN READ
Scientific Achievement: Theoretical calculations demonstrated that spatially correlated disorder breaks Rayleigh’s law for phonon scattering, yielding an order of magnitude reduction of thermal conductivity.Significance and Impact: This result provides a new paradigm for minimizing thermal conductivity with crucial relevance to energy applications such as thermal insulation, energy storage, and thermoelectrics.DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.026301
February 10, 2023
1 MIN READ
Scientific Achievement: The kinetic pathways of Janus monolayer formation were revealed by real-time Raman spectroscopy combined with plasma plume diagnostics during pulsed laser deposition (PLD), allowing the capture of 2D metastable alloys.Significance and Impact: This work demonstrates a general in situ diagnostic approach for precision synthesis and real-time adaptive control that are required to enable the autonomous discovery of novel materials and metastable phases.DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.2c09952
November 16, 2022
1 MIN READ
Scientific Achievement: First-principles calculations and neutron scattering reveal phase symmetry constraints for phonons in simple geometries and give insights into dynamical stability of layered quantum magnets.Significance and Impact: Incorporating translational symmetry into dynamics of conventional structures advances understanding of spin-phonon and other quasiparticle interactions important for quantum and thermal functionalities.DOI: 10.1016/j.actamat.2022.118390
February 22, 2022
1 MIN READ
Using ab initio tight-binding approaches, we investigate Floquet band engineering of the 1T' phase of transition metal dichalcogenides (MX2, M = W, Mo and X = Te, Se, S) monolayers under the irradiation with circularly
February 7, 2022
1 MIN READ
a-RuCl3 is a prime candidate for the Kitaev-type quantum spin liquid relevant to noise-resilient solid state quantum gates.
October 15, 2021
1 MIN READ
The single-layered ruthenate Sr2RuO4 is one of the most enigmatic unconventional superconductors.
September 11, 2020
1 MIN READ
Fe3-xGeTe2 is a layered van der Waals magnetic material with a relatively high ordering temperature and large anisotropy.
August 21, 2014
4 MIN READ
​New measurements of atomic-scale magnetic behavior in iron-based superconductors by researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Vanderbilt University are challenging conventional wisdom about superconductivity and magnetism.