Scot Brown

About

Dr. Scot Brown is a professor of African American Studies and History at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he also serves as the Director of Undergraduate Affairs of African American Studies and History. His scholarly work includes authoring the book Fighting For Us and contributing to numerous articles on African American history, social and political movements, music, and popular culture. He is a contributing author and editor of the book Discourse on Africana Studies, and he is in the process of completing a book project that explores Dayton, Ohio as a 1970s musical hotbed of soul and funk bands. Brown has appeared as an expert commentator on African American music and popular culture for various television, radio, and social media programs, including KLRU, NPR, Sirius/XM Radio, BET/Centric, TV One, and VH1. He has also participated in several documentaries on the Civil Rights and Black Power movements, notably PBS's The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution. His research and commentary focus on African American cultural history, social movements, and music, contributing significantly to the academic discourse on Black cultural nationalism, the Black Power era, and the history of Black music and social movements.

Research topics

• Physics
• Condensed matter physics
• Crystallography
• Chemistry
• Materials science
• Quantum mechanics
• Organic chemistry
• Chemical physics
• Thermodynamics
• Nuclear magnetic resonance

Selected publications

• Constraints on the superconducting order parameter in Sr2RuO4 from oxygen-17 nuclear magnetic resonance

  Nature · 2019-09-23 · 382 citations

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• Pronounced drop of $^{17}$O NMR Knight shift in superconducting state of Sr$_2$RuO$_4$

  arXiv (Cornell University) · 2019-03-29 · 109 citations

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  The superconducting state in the quasi-two-dimensional and strongly correlated Sr$_2$RuO$_4$ is uniquely held up as a solid state analog to superfluid $^3$He-$A$, with an odd-parity order parameter that also breaks time reversal symmetry, and for which the vector order parameter has the same direction in spin space for all electron momenta. The recent discovery that uniaxial pressure causes a steep rise and maximum in transition temperature ($T_c$) in strained samples motivated the study of $^{1…

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• Evidence for even parity unconventional superconductivity in Sr ₂ RuO ₄

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2021 · 85 citations

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  O Knight shift measurements, being sensitive to the spin polarization, are compared to previously reported specific heat measurements for the purpose of distinguishing the condensate contribution from that due to quasiparticles. We conclude that the shift results can be accounted for entirely by the expected field-induced quasiparticle response. An upper bound for the condensate magnetic response of <10% of the normal state susceptibility is sufficient to exclude all purely odd-parity candidates…

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• Dipolar order in an amphidynamic crystalline metal–organic framework through reorienting linkers

  Nature Chemistry · 2021 · 50 citations

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• Impurity moments conceal low-energy relaxation of quantum spin liquids

  Physical review. B./Physical review. B · 2020 · 29 citations

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  We scrutinize the magnetic properties of $\ensuremath{\kappa}\text{\ensuremath{-}}{(\mathrm{BEDT}\text{\ensuremath{-}}\mathrm{TTF})}_{2}\mathrm{Hg}{(\mathrm{SCN})}_{2}\mathrm{Cl}$ through its first-order metal-insulator transition at ${T}_{\mathrm{CO}}=30\phantom{\rule{0.16em}{0ex}}\mathrm{K}$ by means of $^{1}\mathrm{H}$ nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). While in the metallic state we find Fermi-liquid behavior with temperature-independent ${({T}_{1}T)}^{\ensuremath{-}1}$, the relaxation rate e…

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Recent grants

• NMR Studies of Pressure-Tuned Correlated Electron Systems

  NSF · $344k · 2005–2009

• NMR studies of quantum matter under stressed conditions

  NSF · $592k · 2020–2024

• Controlled variations of quantum phases observed by NMR

  NSF · $484k · 2017–2021

Frequent coauthors

• Shawkat M. Toorawa

  324 shared

• Julia Bray

  University of Cambridge

  324 shared

• Joseph Lowry

  324 shared

• James E. Montgomery

  Covenant Medical Center

  324 shared

• Devin J. Stewart

  Emory University

  324 shared

• Chip Rossetti

  Yale University

  226 shared

• Philip Kennedy

  Neural Signals (United States)

  177 shared

• Tahera Qutbuddin

  Carleton University

  162 shared

Awards & honors

• Prize for the 1995 Winners of the Association for the Study…

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