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Magnetic Flux Tuning of Spin Chirality in Mott Insulators with Ring Exchanges

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2010-11-02 v1

Abstract

A manifestation of the many-body Aharonov-Bohm effect in the magnetic-flux-tuned Mott insulators with three-spin and four-spin ring exchanges, presents as an effective tool to manipulate the ground-state spin chirality, such as, tune the magnitude continuously, switch an abrupt jump, or even reverse its sign. Such a mechanism is demonstrated explicitly in both quasi-one-dimensional ladders and two-dimensional lattices with triangles as elementary plaquettes.

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@article{arxiv.0909.1622,
  title  = {Magnetic Flux Tuning of Spin Chirality in Mott Insulators with Ring Exchanges},
  author = {Yi-Fei Wang and Chang-De Gong},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0909.1622},
  year   = {2010}
}

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4 pages, 5 figures