Rasmus Toft-Petersen

Rasmus Toft-Petersen

Instrument scientist for BIFROST
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    rasmus.toft-petersen [at] ess.eu

Research Activities

Magnetic structure and dynamics in multiferroic and magnetoelectric materials

Neutron instrumentation

Superconductivity

Magnetic phase diagrams in extreme sample environments

Selected Publications

R. Toft-Petersen, T. B. S. Jensen, M. Reehuis, N. H. Andersen, J. Li, M. D. Le, M. Laver, C. Niedermayer and D. Vaknin Anomalous magnetic structure and spin dynamics in magneto-electric LiFePO4, Phys. Rev. B 92, 024404 (2015)

R. Toft-Petersen, F. Groitl, M. Kure, J. Lim, P. Cermak, S. Alimov, T. Wilpert, M. D. Le, D. Quintero-Castro, C. Niedermayer, A. Schneidewind, K. Habicht Experimental characterization of a prototype secondary spectrometer for vertically scattering multiple energy analysis at cold-neutron triple axis spectrometers, Nucl. Instr. Meth. A 830, Pages 338-344, (2016)

R. Toft-Petersen, E. Fogh, N. H. Andersen, K. Fritsch, G. E. Granroth, M. B. Stone, J. Lee, T. Kihara, D. Vaknin, H. Nojiri, N. B. Christensen, Field induced reentrant magnetoelectric phase in LiNiPO4, Phys. Rev. B 95, 064421, (2017)

R. Toft-Petersen, A. B. Abrahamsen, S. Balog, L. Porcar and M. Laver. Deconstruction of the Bragg glass in a type-II superconductor, Nature Communications 9, 901 (2018)

A. B. Kademane, C. Bhandari, D. Paudyal, S. Cottrell, P. Das, Y. Liu, Y. Yiu, C. M. Naveen Kumar, K. Siemensmeyer, A. Hoser, D. Quintero-Castro, D. Vaknin, Rasmus Toft-Petersen, Magnetization reversal driven by electron localization-delocalization crossover in the inverse spinel Co2VO4   Physical Review B, 105, 094408 (2022)

E. Fogh, B. Klemke, M. Reehuis, P. Bourges, C. Niedermayer, S. Holm-Dahlin, O. Zaharko, J. Schefer, A. B. Kristensen, M. K. Sørensen, S. Paeckel, K. S. Pedersen, R. E. Hansen, A. Pages, K. K. Moerner, G. Meucci, J.-R. Soh, A. Bombardi, D. Vaknin, H. M. Rønnow, O. F. Syljuåsen, N. B. Christensen & Rasmus Toft-Petersen Tuning magnetoelectricity in a mixed-anisotropy antiferromagnet,  Nature Communications volume 14, Article number: 3408 (2023)

Career History

2008: Masters degree, experimental high energy nuclear physics, University of Copenhagen

2012:  PhD, magnetism and superconduvitivity, Risø National Laboratory, Technical University of Denmark

2012-2016:  Instrument scientist, FLEXX triple axis spectrometer, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin

2016 - : Instrument scientist, BIFROST, European Spallation Source and Technical University of Denmark