Nov 26, 2024 | A video highlighting our experiment at hRIXS at XFEL is out here. |
Oct 18, 2024 | The preprint for our PRX Perspective Exploring Quantum Materials with Resonant Inelastic X-Ray Scattering has been posted on the arXiv. |
Sep 23, 2024 | See here for a highlight on our recent Photonic Science Laue purchase |
Sep 23, 2024 | Congratulations to former group member Gilberto Fabbris and collaborator Xiaoqian Chen on winning DOE Early Career Awards! |
Sep 10, 2024 | Mark is speaking at the Inelastic X-Ray Scattering 2024 Conference. |
Aug 19, 2024 | A Brookhaven Highlight was just published on Wei’s excitons in NiPS3 paper. |
Aug 10, 2024 | Mark will be speaking at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences Users Meeting in Knoxville on August 12th. |
Aug 4, 2024 | Valery Kiryukhin has written a News & Views article on our paper describing ultrafast x-ray pair distribution function measurements. |
Aug 1, 2024 | Jinu Thomas, a PhD student in Steve Johnston’s group at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has started his SCGSR visit with the group. |
Jul 26, 2024 | The press release for our work on ultrafast x-ray pair distribution function is now out here. |
Jul 25, 2024 | The book Ultrafast Electronic and Structural Dynamics is now out! Check out Chapter 10 Ultrafast X-Ray Probes of Dynamics in Solids written by Mariano Trigo, me, and David Reis. |
Jun 21, 2024 | Mark will give a talk at the Telluride Science Workshop on Enhanced Functionalities from Spin-Orbit Coupling on June 26th. |
Jun 14, 2024 | Mark will give a talk at the Ultrafast Dynamics and Ultrafast Bandgap Photonics conference in Crete. |
Jun 13, 2024 | Jack’s paper reporting the first ultrafast x-ray pair distribution function is out in Nature Materials. |
May 28, 2024 | Our work on nickealtes has been featured by DOE! |
May 21, 2024 | Mark is giving a talk at the Methods for modeling transport and dynamics of quantum magnets workshop at Los Alamos on May 29th. |
May 14, 2024 | Former group member Daniel Mazzone has won the Thirtheenth Erwin Félix Lewy Bertaut Prize. Congrats Daniel! |
Apr 30, 2024 | We are hiring. See here. |
Apr 25, 2024 | Wei’s paper on excitons in NiPS3 is out in Nature Communications. |
Apr 18, 2024 | Wei’s paper on excitons in NiPS3 has been accepted in Nature Communications! |
Apr 17, 2024 | We just posted a paper with Robert Konik on extracting quantum entanglement from RIXS to the arXiv. |
Apr 13, 2024 | I will be giving a departmental seminar at the University of Texas at Austin on April 25th. |
Apr 12, 2024 | Jack’s paper reporting the first ultrafast x-ray pair distribution function measurement has been accepted in Nature Materials! |
Apr 11, 2024 | Mark will present at Brown University’s Inaugural National Labs Day on April 19th. |
Mar 27, 2024 | Work in collaboration with Mariano Trigo and co on SrTiO3 is posted on the arXiv. |
Mar 20, 2024 | Mark is giving a Departmental Colloquium at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, “Exploring Many Body Excitons with Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering”. |
Mar 19, 2024 | Jennifer has been promoted to a staff position within the Neutron Scattering Group at Brookhaven in March 2024. Congratualtions Jennifer! |
Mar 5, 2024 | Jennifer and Wei are giving talks at the American Physical Society March Meeting this week. |
Feb 7, 2024 | Longlong and Ian’s paper on BCDI methods is published in NPJ Computational Materials. |
Feb 1, 2024 | Work in collaboration with Xuerong Liu on electron doped cuprates is out in Physical Review Letters. |
Jan 11, 2024 | Mark is giving the Departmental Colloquium at the University of California, Davis, “X-ray vision of electron behavior in quantum materials”. |
Jan 11, 2024 | During my visit to the University of California, Davis, I will be giving an informal lunch seminar on “Research opportunities with magnetic excitons”. |
Jan 10, 2024 | My first talk of the year is a seminar on nickelate superconductors at Stanford University. |
Dec 14, 2023 | Work lead by Jian Liu’s group in collaboration with us on iridates is now out in Nano Letters. |
Dec 12, 2023 | Work in collaboration with Xuerong Liu on electron doped cuprates has been accepted in Physical Review Letters. |
Nov 27, 2023 | Mark will give a talk at the Materials Research Society Fall Meeting. |
Nov 17, 2023 | We are hiring! |
Oct 27, 2023 | Jack’s preprint reporting the first ultrafast x-ray pair distribution function measurement is available on the arXiv. |
Oct 26, 2023 | Work in collaboration with Xuerong Liu on electron doped cuprates is available on the arXiv. |
Oct 21, 2023 | Our website has been updated! It should now work a lot better on mobile devices. |
Oct 17, 2023 | Jennifer’s paper on stacking disorder in αRuCl3 is out. |
Sep 26, 2023 | Jennifer’s preprint on stacking disorder in αRuCl3 has been accepted in Physical Review B! |
Sep 14, 2023 | Mark will be speaking at the The Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies Annual User Meeting next week |
Aug 4, 2023 | Jennifer’s preprint on stacking disorder in αRuCl3 is now available. |
Jul 24, 2023 | Longlong’s paper on imaging magnetism in iridates is now out in Phys. Rev. B. |
May 23, 2023 | Mark will give a talk at the VUVX Conference in Campinas, Brasil. |
May 23, 2023 | Mark will give a talk at the RIXSREXS2023 workshop in Sendai, Japan. |
May 21, 2023 | Mark will give a talk at the Ultrafast Dynamics and Ultrafast Bandgap Photonics conference in Crete. |
May 20, 2023 | Mark will present his research and the UKXFEL Science Case for Quantum Materials at the Frontiers of Measurement Technology UK event in Belfast. |
Apr 20, 2023 | Mark is speaking at the Advanced Photon Source Users’ Meeting on April 21st. |
Apr 17, 2023 | A News Article was published today on our nickelate research. |
Apr 7, 2023 | Mark will be giving a talk the MAX IV Workshop on Science Opportunities with Diffraction-Limited Soft X-Rays on April 11th. |
Mar 30, 2023 | Collaborative work with Matteo d’Astuto on oxychloride cuprates is available on the arXiv. |
Mar 29, 2023 | Mike Norman’s preprint, in collaboration with us, on the theory of RIXS in nickelates has been accepted by Phys. Rev. B. |
Mar 29, 2023 | Gilberto’s data descriptor article on the electronic structure of Ruddlesden-Popper nickelates is out in Scientific Data. |
Mar 22, 2023 | Mark will be giving a colloquium at Oklahoma State University on Thursday March 23. |
Mar 17, 2023 | Gilberto’s data descriptor article on the electronic structure of Ruddlesden-Popper nickelates is available on the arXiv. |
Mar 10, 2023 | Jennifer’s work Structure of Charge Density Waves in La1.875Ba0.125CuO4 is now out in Physical Review B and was made an Editors’ Suggestion. |
Mar 3, 2023 | Mark will be giving an invited talk at the American Physical Society March Meeting. |
Feb 20, 2023 | Yao’s manuscript on the electronic character of charge order in low valence nickelates is out in Phys. Rev. X. |
Feb 19, 2023 | Mike Norman’s preprint, in collaboration with us, on the theory of RIXS in nickelates is now available. |
Feb 16, 2023 | Jennifer’s work Structure of Charge Density Waves in La1.875Ba0.125CuO4 has been accepted by Physical Review B. |
Jan 24, 2023 | Mark will be giving a talk at McMaster on Febuary 15th. |
Jan 11, 2023 | Yao’s manuscript on the electronic character of charge order in low valence nickelates is available on the arXiv. |
Jan 9, 2023 | Yao’s manuscript on Resonant inelastic X-ray scattering in topological semimetal FeSi is available on the arXiv. |
Dec 24, 2022 | Jennifer’s preprint Structure of Charge Density Waves in La1.875Ba0.125CuO4 is now available. |
Nov 18, 2022 | Wei Wang’s study of lattice dynamics in magnetite is out in Phys. Rev. B. |
Nov 16, 2022 | Mark has been awarded distinction of tenure by Brookhaven. |
Nov 12, 2022 | Yao is giving a talk at the Institut Quantique at the Univeristé de Sherbrooke. Watch it here. |
Nov 11, 2022 | Yao’s paper Emergence of spinons in layered trimer iridate Ba4Ir3O10 is out in Physical Review Letters. |
Oct 17, 2022 | Our manuscript on magnetism in low valence nickelates has been tagged as a highly cited paper (top 1% of all papers in the field). |
Oct 15, 2022 | Yao’s paper Emergence of spinons in layered trimer iridate Ba4Ir3O10 has been accepted in Physical Review Letters. |
Sep 30, 2022 | Mark is co-organizing a workshop “Time-resolved resonant inelastic hard x-ray scattering as a probe of quantum materials” at the LCLS Users’ Meeting. |
Aug 30, 2022 | Mark will be speaking at Neutrons and Complementary Techniques for Quantum Materials. |
Aug 20, 2022 | Mark will be giving a plenary talk at IXS2022 in Oxford. |
Jul 31, 2022 | Work with Jian Liu’s group on iridate heterostructures is out Phys. Rev. X. |
Jul 19, 2022 | Work by Laura Chaix and Matteo d’Astuto involving us is now posted published in Phys. Rev. Resarch. |
Jul 18, 2022 | Mark is lecturing on resonant scattering at the 24th Annual National School on Neutron and X-ray Scattering. |
Jul 4, 2022 | Mark will be giving an invited talk at M2S in Vancouver. |
Jun 23, 2022 | Congratulations to Gilberto Fabbris who was recently given the Alvin Van Valkenburg Award! |
Jun 17, 2022 | Yanhong and Valentina’s study of Cu2OSeO3 is published in Communications Physics. |
Jun 12, 2022 | Jian Liu’s group has posted an iridate heterostructure paper, in collaboration with us, which has been accepted in Physical Review X. |
Jun 7, 2022 | Mark is speaking at Ultrafast Metastability and Dynamics 2022. |
May 27, 2022 | Work lead by Min Gyu Kim and Valery Kiryukhin on Real-space observation of fluctuating antiferromagnetic domains is out in Science Advances. |
May 3, 2022 | Yanhong and Valentina’s study of Cu2OSeO3 was just posted to the arXiv. |
Mar 30, 2022 | Work by Laura Chaix and Matteo d’Astuto involving us is now posted on the arXiv. See here. |
Mar 22, 2022 | Our paper on the discovery of a antiferromagnetic excitonic insulator has been chosen for a APS Science Highlight. |
Mar 22, 2022 | Yao’s mauscript on the essential electronic characteristic of low valence nickelates is out in Physical Review X. |
Feb 22, 2022 | Daniel’s paper discovering an antiferromagnetic excitonic insulator has been featured as a BNL Press Release. |
Feb 19, 2022 | Mark’s News and Views article in Nature Physics Waves divide the Fermi sea is out. |
Feb 18, 2022 | Wei Wang’s study of Fe3O4 was just posted to the arXiv. |
Feb 17, 2022 | Daniel’s paper discovering an antiferromagnetic excitonic insulator is published in Nature Communications! |
Feb 8, 2022 | A paper by Simon Wall’s group, in collaboration with us, on Nonthermal breaking of magnetic order via photogenerated spin defects in the spin-orbit coupled insulator Sr3Ir2O7 is published in PRB. |
Jan 26, 2022 | Our manuscript showing that low-valence nickelates are mixed Mott Charge transfer insulators has been accepted in Physical Review X. |
Jan 11, 2022 | Daniel’s paper discovering an antiferromagnetic excitonic insulator is accepted in Nature Communications! |
Jan 10, 2022 | Yao’s paper Emergence of spinons in layered trimer iridate Ba4Ir3O10 is posted on the arXiv. |
Dec 30, 2021 | Longlong’s paper on domain imaging in nickelates is out Phys. Rev. Lett. |
Dec 24, 2021 | Our review on low valence nickelates with Matthias Hepting and Wei-Sheng Lee is now published Frontiers in Physics. |
Dec 16, 2021 | Our study of RIXS on graphite is out in Physical Review X. |
Nov 30, 2021 | Wei Wang’s paper on SnSe is out in npj Quantum materials. |
Nov 30, 2021 | Our review on low valence nickelates with Matthias Hepting and Wei-Sheng Lee is accepted in Frontiers in Physics. |
Nov 19, 2021 | Our study imaging spin density waves in nickelates lead by Ian Robinson and Longlong Wu has been accepted in Physical Review Letters. |
Nov 4, 2021 | A review on nickelates lead by Matthias Hepting was posted today. |
Nov 2, 2021 | Work with Xuerong Liu on metastable magnetic states in Sr2IrO4 is out Phys. Rev. X. |
Oct 28, 2021 | Our work on ultrafast dynamics in SnSe has been accepted in npj Quantum Materials. |
Oct 26, 2021 | We just posted our work on ultrafast dynamics in SnSe to the arXiv. |
Oct 22, 2021 | Our study of RIXS on graphite is accepted in Physical Review X. |
Oct 20, 2021 | Our study of RIXS on graphite is now available. |
Oct 19, 2021 | Work with Xuerong Liu on metastable magnetic states in Sr2IrO4 was posted today and will appear in Phys. Rev. X. shortly. |
Sep 21, 2021 | Mark is speaking in two sessions of the 2021 SSRL/LCLS Users Meeting Time Resolved Science: Bridging Time Scales Using XFELs and Synchrotrons and X-ray spectroscopic studies of superconducting and low-dimensional nickelates. |
Aug 28, 2021 | John Tranquada’s article, together with Qiang Li and me, on Superconductivity from charge order in cuprates is now out. |
Aug 13, 2021 | A book chapter on Ultrafast x-ray probes of dynamics in solids written by Mariano Trigo, me, and David Reis is available on the arXiv. |
Jun 20, 2021 | John Tranquada posted a preprint of an article he wrote together with Qiang Li and me on Superconductivity from charge order in cuprates. |
Jun 10, 2021 | Miao’s group’s paper on RuCl3 is out in Nature Communications. |
Jun 7, 2021 | A BNL Highlight has been published on our ultrafast study of Sr3Ir2O7. |
Jun 4, 2021 | Please consider registering for Resonant Inelastic and Elastic X-ray Scattering 2021 organized by Mark and Valentina Bisogni. |
May 27, 2021 | Our paper on ultrafast magnetic dynamics in Sr3Ir2O7 is published in PNAS. |
May 10, 2021 | Miao’s group’s paper on chiral phonons in BaPtGe is out. |
May 1, 2021 | Yao’s paper on spin and charge dynamics in nickelates is out in PRL. |
Apr 30, 2021 | Miao’s group’s paper on RuCl3 was accepted in Nature Communications. |
Apr 27, 2021 | Mark has been invited to speak at the APS Workshop Wide-angle XPCS and Application of Speckle Spatio-temporal Correlation in Materials. |
Apr 26, 2021 | Our paper on ufRIXS on Sr3Ir2O7 is accepted in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. |
Apr 16, 2021 | Miao’s group’s paper on chiral phonons in BaPtGe was accepted in Phys. Rev. B. |
Apr 12, 2021 | Simon Wall’s group just posted a preprint on Sr3Ir2O7 that we collaborated on. |
Apr 2, 2021 | Yao’s paper on spin and charge dynamics in La2-xSrxNiO4 has been accepted in Physical Review Letters and is available as a preprint. |
Mar 19, 2021 | Miao’s paper on CDW order in overdoped cuprates is out npj Quantum Materials. |
Mar 15, 2021 | Mark has been inducted into the Outstanding Referee program of the American Physical Society. |
Mar 7, 2021 | I am giving a talk at the SACLA Users’ Meeting 2021. |
Feb 22, 2021 | Our manuscript on magnetism in d9 nickelates is out in Physical Review Letters. |
Feb 20, 2021 | Miao’s paper on CDW order in overdoped cuprates has been accepted in npj Quantum Materials. |
Feb 18, 2021 | Mark’s tenure on the PRX editorial board has been extended. |
Feb 12, 2021 | I am giving the condensed matter seminar on nickelate superconductors at Stony Brook University. |
Feb 1, 2021 | Mark has been invited to speak at the Korean Physical Society Spring Meeting. |
Jan 15, 2021 | Our manuscript on magnetism in d9 nickelates has been accepted in Physical Review Letters. |
Jan 8, 2021 | Mark is giving two talks at the American Physical Society March Meeting. A contributed talk on nickelates and an invited talk on iridates. |
Nov 30, 2020 | Mark is giving an invited talk at the Materials Research Society Fall Meeting. |
Nov 17, 2020 | Hu Miao’s group posted their preprint, in collaboration with us, on RuCl3 see here. |
Nov 4, 2020 | Mark is featured in a news story about our charge density wave research. |
Oct 5, 2020 | Hu Miao just posted his work, in collaboration with us, on chiral topoloigcal phonons. |
Aug 20, 2020 | Our new preprint on magnetism in d9 nickelates is out here. |
Aug 14, 2020 | Jiaqi’s paper on CDW excitations is now out in Phys. Rev. Lett. |
Aug 7, 2020 | Mark has been invited to serve on the LCLS proposal review panel this fall. |
Jul 30, 2020 | The UK XFEL Science case, edited by Jon Marangos is now published here. Mark contributed the Magnetic materials and control of ultrafast magnetisation section of this document. |
Jul 11, 2020 | BNL RIXS software EDRIXS written by Yilin is now accessible to try on mybinder. |
Jul 10, 2020 | Kemp Plumb of Brown University has been awarded an EPSCoR Grant to visit our lab. |
May 9, 2020 | Mark has been elected to the Advanced Photon Source Users’ Organization! |
Apr 29, 2020 | Jian Liu’s group’s paper, in collaboration with us, on iridate heterostructures is out. |
Apr 16, 2020 | Derek’s paper on iridate heterostructures has been featured in a Advanced Photon Source highlight. |
Apr 6, 2020 | Jian Liu’s group’s paper, in collaboration with us, on iridate heterostructures was just accepted in PRL! See here. |
Mar 26, 2020 | Our group notes on writing papers and preparing figures are available. |
Mar 24, 2020 | Our proposal to build a time-resolved RIXS spectrometer at the SACLA XFEL in Japan has been accepted! |
Feb 26, 2020 | The UEC Show Episode 3, featuring Matt Whittaker as host and me as co-host is out. |
Feb 19, 2020 | We just posted our preprint on ultrafast magnetic dynamics in Sr3Ir2O7 available here. |
Feb 11, 2020 | Tadesse’s paper on cuprate domain imaging is out in Phys. Rev. B. |
Jan 29, 2020 | We posted two preprints relating to our discovery of CDWs in overdoped cuprates today Miao et al. and Lin et al.. |
Jan 27, 2020 | Today I am giving a seminar at the Swiss Light Source at the Paul Scherrer Institut. |
Jan 26, 2020 | The American Physical Society and the International Union of Crystallography have agreed to sponsor RIXS/REXS2020 workshop |
Jan 23, 2020 | Tadesse’s paper on cuprate domain imaging is accepted in Phys. Rev. B. |
Jan 18, 2020 | Jiaqi’s paper on plasmons in electron doped cuprates is now out. |
Jan 14, 2020 | Registration for the RIXS/REXS2020 workshop I am co-organizing with Valentina Bisogni is now open. |
Dec 26, 2019 | Jian Liu’s group’s paper, in collaboration with us, on Sn doped SrIrO3 growth just came out in Phys. Rev. Materials. See here. |
Dec 19, 2019 | Recent work on resonant reflectivity lead by Drexel has been featured in a press release. |
Dec 17, 2019 | A preprint lead by Jian Liu’s group, in collaboration with us, on Sn doped SrIrO3 growth was just posted on the arXiv. See here. |
Dec 17, 2019 | We are hosting Jen Cano from Stony Brook Univeristy on January 16th for a Departmental Seminar. |
Dec 16, 2019 | I am giving the Condensed Matter Physics Seminar at the University of Toronto on January 13th. |
Dec 16, 2019 | Our paper on phononic helical nodal line structures in MoB2 is now out in Physical Review Letters. |
Dec 14, 2019 | Miao's leaving dinner |
Nov 23, 2019 | Jian Liu’s group’s paper on magnetoresistance in iridate heterostructures, in collaboration with us, just came out. |
Nov 22, 2019 | Our paper on plasmons in electron doped cupratets together with Xuerong Liu’s group is accepted in npj Quantum Materials. |
Nov 19, 2019 | Our paper on phononic helical nodal lines in MoB2 is accepted in Physical Review Letters. |
Nov 7, 2019 | The UEC show is online. |
Nov 3, 2019 | I am giving a talk at the Center for Computational Material Spectroscopy and Design Fall workshop. |
Oct 31, 2019 | Two of our preprints appeared today. We made the first observation of phononic helical nodal line structures in MoB2. Jian Liu’s group desscribe an intriguing new form of magnetoresistance here. |
Oct 30, 2019 | Xiao’s paper has been featured in a BNL press release. |
Oct 30, 2019 | I am giving the CM/AMO Seminar at the University of Michigan on Tuesday, November 5th. See here. |
Oct 23, 2019 | I am giving a colloquium in the Materials Science Department at Argonne National Laboratory October 24th at 11:00. See here. |
Sep 25, 2019 | Tadesse’s preprint on domain imaging in cuprates is posted on the arXiv. See here. |
Sep 14, 2019 | The Oxide Film and Interface Group from Drexel published a paper together with us in Advanced Materials on the electronic properties of ferrite heterostructures. See the paper. |
Sep 13, 2019 | I am giving the condensed matter seminar at Stony Brook University, after having been invited by Jen Cano. |
Sep 10, 2019 | Sangjae Lee from Charles Ahn and Fred Walker’s group in Yale, together with our group as collaborators, published a nice recent paper in PRL about orbital polarization in cobaltate heterostructures. |
Sep 10, 2019 | The inaugural edition of the UEC show, featuring me as co-host just posted on YouTube. |
Sep 7, 2019 | Our paper explaining how incommensurate charge density waves appear in cuprates, lead by Hu Miao, has appeared in Physical Review X! See here. |
Sep 3, 2019 | Our preprint, with Xuerong Liu’s Group, looking at charge excitations in electron doped cuprates is posted on the arXiv. |
Sep 1, 2019 | I am attending NGSCES in Pescara, Italy, giving a keynote talk on Thursday. |
Aug 25, 2019 | My website is launched. |