National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Science Highlights 2008

One of the important goals of the Mag Lab is to facilitate the exchange of scientific knowledge and to communicate the science and engineering achievements of the laboratory’s faculty and users. These science highlights (PDF files) showcase the cutting-edge research underway at the Mag Lab.

For highlights from previous years, please refer to our Science Highlights Archive.

2008 Science & Engineering Highlights
Date	Research Area	Title	Site / Program	Contact
July 31	Biochemistry	Mating and Dauer Pheromones from Caenorhabditis elegans*	UF / AMRIS	Art Edison
July 31	Chemical Engineering	Nanoscale Diffusion Studies of Lipid Membranes*	UF / AMRIS	Sergey Vasenkov
July 31	Condensed Matter Physics	Experimental Studies of the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect: High Field-Low Temperature Studies*	UF / High B/T	Neil Sullivan
July 31	Condensed Matter Physics	Giant Viscosity Enhancement in a Spini-Polarized Fermi Liquid*	UF / High B/T	Neil Sullivan
July 31	Condensed Matter Physics	Quenching Spin Decoherence in Diamond through Spin Bath Polarization*	FSU / EMR	Hans van Tol
July 31	Chemistry, Petroleomics	High Performance Mass Spectrometry: FT-ICR at 14.5 T*	FSU / ICR	Alan Marshall
July 31	Biochemistry	Diffusion and Sodium MRI of Rodent Glioma at 21T*	FSU / NMR	Victor Schepkin
July 31	Biochemistry	Spectral Mapping of Protein Torsion Angles*	FSU / NMR	Tim Cross
July 31	Condensed Matter Physics	Two-Band Superconductivity in LaFeAsO_0.89F_0.11 at Very High Magnetic Fields*	FSU / Applied Superconductivity Center	Frank Hunte
July 31	Magnets & Materials, Engineering	Steps Toward an All-Superconducting 30 Tesla Magnet Made from Round Wire*	FSU / Applied Superconductivity Center	David Larbalestier
July 31	Condensed Matter Physics	HTc Superconductor MultiComponent Fermi Surface*	FSU / DC Field	Suchitra Sebastian, Eric Palm
July 31	Education	Educational Outreach at the Magnet Lab*	FSU / Center for Integrating Research & Learning	Pat Dixon
July 31	Magnets & Materials	Instrumentation for Measurement of Strain Dependence of Nb₃Sn Conductors*	FSU / MS&T	Denis Markiewicz
July 31	Magnets & Materials	Texture and Microstructure in High Strength Cu-Ag Conductors for DC Magnets*	FSU / MS&T	Ke Han
July 31	Condensed Matter Physics	Fermi Surface of CeIn₃ above the Neel Critical Field*	LANL / Pulsed Field	Neil Harrison, Chuck Mielke
July 31	Condensed Matter Physics	Magneto Quantum Oscillations in YBa₂Cu₄O₈*	LANL / Pulsed Field	Chuck Mielke
July 23	Condensed Matter Physics	A Direct Measurement of the Bose-Einstein Condensation Universality Class in NiCl₂-4SC(NH₂)₂ at Ultra-Low Temperatures	UF / High B/T Facility	Vivien Zapf or Neil Sullivan
July 17	Condensed Matter Physics	Experimental Studies of the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect: High field-Low Temperature Studies	UF / High B/T Facility	Neil Sullivan
April 30	Chemistry	A Family of Cyanide-Bridged Molecular Squares: Structural and Magnetic Properties of [{M^IICl₂}₂{Co^II(triphos)(CN)₂}₂] ·xCH₂Cl₂, M = Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Zn	EMR and DC Field	Jurek Krzystek
March 24	Condensed Matter Physics	Cyclotron Resonance in Bilayer Graphene	DC Field	Zhigang Jiang
March 21	Condensed Matter Physics	Supersymmetry Can Be Realized and Detected in Cold Atoms with Mixtures of Bosons and Fermions	FSU / Condensed Matter Science	Kun Yang
March 7	Condensed Matter Physics	Colossal Magnetocapacitance and Scale-invariant Dielectric Response in Phase-separated Manganites	UF Physics	Amlan Biswas
March 3	Condensed Matter Physics	Smectic Vortex Phase in Optimally Doped YBa₂Cu₃O₇ Thin Films	LANL / Pulsed Field	Scott Baily

*The National Science Foundation periodically solicits Highlights from the Magnet Lab, and this research activity was one of 16 highlights submitted on July 31, 2008. NSF highlights use a template and each includes two slides: The first slide presents the research; the second slide discusses broader impacts.