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Superconductivity and Vortices
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Our group is dedicated to the fascinating physics of unusual and/or unconventional superconductors, with a strong emphasis on understanding the fundamental properties of such materials.

We focus on experimental studies of vortices, and how they can be used to probe the detailed nature of the superconducting state of the host material.

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Latest News & Events
Our SANS study of the vortex lattice in Ta-doped CsV3Sb5 indicating strikingly conventional superconductivity was published in Nature Communications.
July 31, 2024
Grace Longbons, Nathan Chalus and Morten Eskildsen will all present talks at the 2022 American Conference on Neutron Scattering (ACNS2024) in Knoxville (TN).
June 23-27, 2024
Morten Eskildsen will give an invited talk on our SANS studies of skyrmions under the influence of a radial thermal gradient at the conference From Solid State to Biophysics XI in Dubrovnik, Croatia.
June 8-15, 2024
Using atomic manipulation and scanning tunneling spectroscopy, we performed quantitative analogue simulations of planar molecules. Results were published in Nano Lett. This was a veritable tour-de-force and involved multiple generations of graduate students.
May 21, 2024
Our molecular dynamics simulations of reversible, irreversible, and mixed regimes for periodically driven disks in random obstacle arrays were published in the PRE. The MD simulations were performed by Danny Minogue and the work was done in collaboration with Drs. Cynthia and Charles Reichhardt at Los Alamos Natl. Lab.
April 19, 2024
Grace Longbons, Nathan Chalus and Morten Eskildsen presented talks at the 2024 APS March meeting in Minneapolis (MN).
March 4 - 8, 2024
Grace Longbons was elected to the Executive Committee of the Oak Ridge SNS and HFIR User Group (SHUG). SHUG works with the ORNL Neutron Sciences Directorate to address user concerns, provides a forum for keeping the entire community informed of issues and progress, and serves as an advocacy group for neutron scattering science.
December 14, 2023
Results of molecular dynamics simulations of driven metastable vortex lattices in superconductors with a combined six- and twelvefold anisotropic interactions were published in the New Journal of Physics. The MD simulations were performed by Danny Minogue and the work was done in collaboration with Drs. Cynthia and Charles Reichhardt at Los Alamos Natl. Lab.
November 30, 2023
Danny Minogue graduated with a B.S. in Physics and B. E. in Computer Science, and Ted Roe graduated with a B.S. in Physics and a B.S. in Mathematics. Congratulations and best wishes for your future careers!
May 20, 2023
Tony Francisco successfully defended his thesis on molecular quantum simulators of non-Kekulé molecules. Congratulations Dr. Francisco!
April 25, 2023
Nathan Chalus passed his oral candidacy exam with a proposal to study skyrmion dynamic under the influence of radial electric and thermal currents. Congratulations!
March 21, 2023
Grace Longbons passed her oral candidacy exam with a proposal to perform spatially resolved SANS studies of vortex and skyrmion lattices. Congratulations!
February 28, 2023
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Contact Information
Prof. Morten R Eskildsen
Department of Physics
225 Nieuwland Science Hall
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Email: eskildsen@nd.edu
Ph.: 574-631-4010

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Eskildsen Group, Department of Physics and Astronomy
225 Nieuwland Science Hall, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556
Phone: 574-631-4010 Email: eskildsen@nd.edu
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