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Jennifer Sears

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department
P.O. Box 5000
Upton, NY 11973-5000

(631) 344-3299
jsears@bnl.gov

I am an experimental physicist with expertise in advanced scattering techniques used to study structure, magnetism, and electronic behavior in quantum materials. My research interests include unconventional superconductors, frustrated magnets, and topological materials. I am particularly interested in the interaction between electronic and structural degrees of freedom, as well as the effects of disorder and short range correlations.

Appointments | Publications


Professional Appointments

Associate Scientist, Neutron Scattering, Brookhaven National Laboratory (2024-present)

Postdoc, X-ray Scattering, Brookhaven National Laboratory (2020-2024)

Postdoc, Beamline P09 (resonant x-ray scattering), Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY (2017-2020)

Selected Publications

  • Sears J, Shen Y, Krogstad MJ, et al (2023) Stacking disorder in αRuCl3 investigated via x-ray three-dimensional difference pair distribution function analysis. Physical Review B 108:. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.108.144419
  • Sears J, Shen Y, Krogstad MJ, et al (2023) Structure of charge density waves in La1.875Ba0.125CuO4. Physical Review B 107:. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.107.115125
  • Sears JA, Chern LE, Kim S, et al (2020) Ferromagnetic Kitaev interaction and the origin of large magnetic anisotropy in α-RuCl3. Nature Physics 16:837–840. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-020-0874-0
  • Sears JA, Songvilay M, Plumb KW, et al (2015) Magnetic order inαRuCl3: A honeycomb-lattice quantum magnet with strong spin-orbit coupling. Physical Review B 91:. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.91.144420
Jennifer Sears

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department
P.O. Box 5000
Upton, NY 11973-5000

(631) 344-3299
jsears@bnl.gov

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