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We study effects of quenched bond disorder in frustrated easy-plane antiferromagnets in two space dimensions, using a combination of analytical and numerical techniques. We consider local-moment systems which display non-collinear…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-09-16 Santanu Dey , Eric C. Andrade , Matthias Vojta

Interfacial perpendicular magnetic anisotropy, which is characterized by the first-order (K1) and second-order (K2) anisotropies, is the core phenomenon for nonvolatile magnetic devices. A sizable K2 satisfying a specific condition…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-06-21 Hyung Keun Gweon , Hyeon-Jong Park , Kyoung-Whan Kim , Kyung-Jin Lee , Sang Ho Lim

The mixed spin-(1/2, 1) Ising model on two fully frustrated triangles-in-triangles lattices is exactly solved with the help of the generalized star-triangle transformation, which establishes a rigorous mapping correspondence with the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-16 Jozef Strecka , Jana Cisarova

Neutron diffraction is used to investigate the field-induced, antiferromagnetically ordered state in the two-leg spin-ladder material (Hpip)2CuBr4. This "classical" phase, a consequence of weak interladder coupling, is nevertheless highly…

We report on the results of molecular dynamics simulation (MD) studies of the classical two-dimensional electron crystal in the presence disorder. Our study is motivated by recent experiments on this system in modulation doped semiconductor…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Min-Chul Cha , H. A. Fertig

We present synchrotron x-ray diffraction, neutron powder diffraction and time-of-flight inelastic neutron scattering measurements on the rare earth pyrochlore oxide Nd2Zr2O7 to study the ordered state magnetic structure and cystal field…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-01-20 J. Xu , V. K. Anand , A. K. Bera , M. Frontzek , D. L. Abernathy , N. Casati , K. Siemensmeyer , B. Lake

Low-temperature states of polycrystalline samples of a frustrated pyrochlore oxide Tb$_{2+x}$Ti$_{2-x}$O$_{7+y}$ have been investigated by specific heat, magnetic susceptibility, and neutron scattering experiments. We have found that this…

The (three-dimensional) pyrochlore lattice antiferromagnet with Heisenberg spins of large spin length $S$ is a highly frustrated model with an macroscopic degeneracy of classical ground states. The zero-point energy of (harmonic order) spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 Christopher L. Henley

The family of magnetic rare-earth pyrochlore oxides R2M2O7 plays host to a diverse array of exotic phenomena, driven by the interplay between geometrical frustration and spin-orbit interaction, which leads to anisotropy in both magnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-03-21 Han Yan , Owen Benton , Ludovic D. C. Jaubert , Nic Shannon

Recent inelastic neutron scattering measurements found that the spin susceptibility of detwinned and highly ordered ortho-II YBa_2Cu_3O_{6.5} exhibits, in both the normal and superconducting states, one-dimensional incommensurate…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 E. Bascones , T. M. Rice

We studied electron spin resonance in a quantum magnet NiCl2-4SC(NH2)2, demonstrating a field-induced quantum phase transition from a quantum-disordered phase to an antiferromagnet. We observe two branches of the antiferromagnetic resonance…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-03-18 T. A. Soldatov , A. I. Smirnov , K. Yu. Povarov , A. Paduan-Filho , A. Zheludev

It was recently discovered that, depending on their symmetries, collinear antiferromagnets may break spin degeneracy in momentum space, even in absence of spin-orbit coupling. Such systems, dubbed altermagnets, have electronic bands with a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-16 Kostiantyn V. Yershov , Volodymyr P. Kravchuk , Maria Daghofer , Jeroen van den Brink

We propose and analyze a general mechanism of disorder-induced order in two-component Bose-Einstein condensates, analogous to corresponding effects established for XY spin models. We show that a random Raman coupling induces a relative…

We investigate the two-dimensional frustrated quantum Heisenberg model with bond disorder on nearest-neighbor couplings using the recently introduced Foundation Neural-Network Quantum States framework, which enables accurate and efficient…

Investigation of materials that exhibit quantum phase transition provides valuable insights into fundamental problems in physics. We present neutron scattering under pressure in a triangular-lattice antiferromagnet which has a quantum…

The XY pyrochlore antiferromagnet Er$_2$Ti$_2$O$_7$ exhibits a rare case of $Z_6$ discrete symmetry breaking in its $\psi_2$ magnetic ground state. Despite being well-studied theoretically, systems with high discrete symmetry breakings are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-02-15 J. Gaudet , A. M. Hallas , J. Thibault , N. P. Butch , H. A. Dabkowska , B. D. Gaulin

The interplay between quantum Hall ordering and spontaneously broken "internal" symmetries in two-dimensional electron systems with spin or pseudospin degrees of freedom gives rise to a variety of interesting phenomena, including novel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-07-22 D. A. Abanin , S. A. Parameswaran , S. A. Kivelson , S. L. Sondhi

We report an inelastic neutron scattering study of magnetic excitations in a quantum paramagnet driven into a magnetically ordered state by chemical substitution, namely Ni(Cl$_{1-x}$Br$_x$)$_2$$\cdot$4SC(NH$_2$)$_2$ with $x=0.21(2)$. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-12-13 A. Mannig , K. Yu. Povarov , J. Ollivier , A. Zheludev

The spin-1/2 Heisenberg kagome antiferromagnet is one of the paradigmatic playgrounds for frustrated quantum magnetism, with an extensive number of competing resonating valence bond (RVB) states emerging at low energies, including gapped…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-10 Yang Yang , Natalia B. Perkins , Fulya Koç , Chi-Huei Lin , Ioannis Rousochatzakis

The spin dynamics in the geometrically frustrated pyrochlore antiferromagnet $\rm Gd_2Sn_2O_7$ is studied by means of the electron spin resonance. In the ordered phase ($T_N = 1$ K), we have detected three gapped resonance modes. Their…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-29 S. S. Sosin , L. A. Prozorova , P. Bonville , M. E. Zhitomirsky