Valentin Taufour

Dr. Valentin Taufour

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17Years (2010-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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15 September 2017 in Nature Communications
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UKUdhara S. Kaluarachchi
Udhara S. Kaluarachchi
SBSergey L. Bud’ko
Sergey L. Bud’ko
PCPaul C. Canfield
Paul C. Canfield
VTValentin Taufour
Valentin Taufour
Experimental and theoretical investigations on itinerant ferromagnetic systems under pressure have shown that ferromagnetic quantum criticality is avoided either by a change of the transition order, becoming of the first order at a tricritical point, or by the appearance of modulated magnetic phases. In the first case, the application of a magnetic field reveals a wing-structure phase diagram as seen in itinerant ferromagnets such as ZrZn2 and UGe2. In the second case, no tricritical wings have been observed so far. Here, we report on the discovery of wing-structure as well as the appearance of modulated magnetic phases in the temperature-pressure-magnetic field phase diagram of LaCrGe3. Our investigation of LaCrGe3 reveals a double-wing structure indicating strong similarities with ZrZn2 and UGe2. But, unlike these simpler systems, LaCrGe3 also shows modulated magnetic phases similar to CeRuPO. This finding provides an example of an additional possibility for the phase diagram of metallic quantum ferromagnets.

13 December 2023 in npj Computational Materials
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LGLuke P. J. Gilligan
Luke P. J. Gilligan
MCMatteo Cobelli
Matteo Cobelli
VTValentin Taufour
Valentin Taufour
SSStefano Sanvito
Stefano Sanvito
In recent times, transformer networks have achieved state-of-the-art performance in a wide range of natural language processing tasks. Here we present a workflow based on the fine-tuning of BERT models for different downstream tasks, which results in the automated extraction of structured information from unstructured natural language in scientific literature. Contrary to existing methods for the automated extraction of structured compound-property relations from similar sources, our workflow does not rely on the definition of intricate grammar rules. Hence, it can be adapted to a new task without requiring extensive implementation efforts and knowledge. We test our data-extraction workflow by automatically generating a database for Curie temperatures and one for band gaps. These are then compared with manually curated datasets and with those obtained with a state-of-the-art rule-based method. Furthermore, in order to showcase the practical utility of the automatically extracted data in a material-design workflow, we employ them to construct machine-learning models to predict Curie temperatures and band gaps. In general, we find that, although more noisy, automatically extracted datasets can grow fast in volume and that such volume partially compensates for the inaccuracy in downstream tasks.

13 January 2022 in Communications Physics
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JBJackson R. Badger
Jackson R. Badger
YQYundi Quan
Yundi Quan
MSMatthew Staab
Matthew Staab
SSShuntaro Sumita
Shuntaro Sumita
ARAntonio Rossi
Antonio Rossi
VTValentin Taufour
Valentin Taufour
Unconventional superconductors have Cooper pairs with lower symmetries than in conventional superconductors. In most unconventional superconductors, the additional symmetry breaking occurs in relation to typical ingredients such as strongly correlated Fermi liquid phases, magnetic fluctuations, or strong spin-orbit coupling in noncentrosymmetric structures. In this article, we show that the time-reversal symmetry breaking in the superconductor LaNiGa2 is enabled by its previously unknown topological electronic band structure, with Dirac lines and a Dirac loop at the Fermi level. Two symmetry related Dirac points even remain degenerate under spin-orbit coupling. These unique topological features enable an unconventional superconducting gap in which time-reversal symmetry can be broken in the absence of other typical ingredients. Our findings provide a route to identify a new type of unconventional superconductors based on nonsymmorphic symmetries and will enable future discoveries of topological crystalline superconductors.

11 October 2021 in Physical Review B
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ARAntonio Rossi
Antonio Rossi
VIVsevolod M. Ivanov
Vsevolod M. Ivanov
SSSudheer Sreedhar
Sudheer Sreedhar
AGAdam L. Gross
Adam L. Gross
ZSZihao Shen
Zihao Shen
IVInna Vishik
Inna Vishik
Co3Sn2S2 is a magnetic Weyl semimetal, in which ferromagnetic ordering at 177 K is predicted to stabilize Weyl points. We perform temperature and spatial dependent angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy measurements through the Curie temperature (Tc), which show large band shifts and renormalization concomitant with the onset of magnetism. We argue that Co3Sn2S2 evolves from a Mott ferromagnet below Tc to a correlated metallic state above Tc. To understand the magnetism, we derive a tight-binding model of Co-3dx2−y2 orbitals on the kagome lattice. At the filling obtained by first-principles calculations, this model reproduces the ferromagnetic ground state, and results in the reduction of Coulomb interactions due to cluster effects. Using a disordered local moment simulation, we show how this reduced Hubbard U leads to a collapse of the bands across the magnetic transition, resulting in a correlated state, which carries associated characteristic photoemission signatures that are distinct from those of a simple lifting of exchange splitting. The behavior of topology across Tc is discussed in the context of this description of the magnetism.

30 March 2010 in Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
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DAD Aoki
D Aoki
FBF Bourdarot
F Bourdarot
EHE Hassinger
E Hassinger
GKGeorg Knebel
Georg Knebel
AMA Miyake
A Miyake
JFJ Flouquet
J Flouquet
We succeeded in growing high quality single crystals of URu(2)Si(2) and performed thermal expansion measurements under pressure. Applying a magnetic field along the [001] direction in the tetragonal structure, the so-called hidden-order phase reappears after the suppression of the antiferromagnetic phase above the critical pressure P(x). We determined the pressure-temperature-field phase diagram for the paramagnetic, hidden-order and antiferromagnetic states for the [Formula: see text] direction. We also present the temperature dependence of the upper critical field H(c2) for [Formula: see text] and [100] determined by the AC specific heat measurements, corresponding to the bulk superconductivity in a high quality single crystal.

13 November 2024 in Nature Physics
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PNPranab Kumar Nag
Pranab Kumar Nag
KSKirsty Scott
Kirsty Scott
VCVanuildo S. de Carvalho
Vanuildo S. de Carvalho
JBJourney Katherine Byland
Journey Katherine Byland
XYXinze Yang
Xinze Yang
ENEduardo H. da Silva Neto
Eduardo H. da Silva Neto