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For magnetic materials containing many lattice imperfections (e.g., nanocrystalline magnets), the relativistic Dzyaloshinski-Moriya (DM) interaction may result in nonuniform spin textures due to the lack of inversion symmetry at interfaces.…
We have obtained the zero-temperature phase diagram of the kagome antiferromagnet with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions in Schwinger-boson mean-field theory. We find quantum phase transitions (first or second order) between different…
The anisotropic Heisenberg two-spin-1/2 model in an inhomogeneous magnetic field with both antisymmetric Dzyaloshinsky-Moriya and symmetric Kaplan-Shekhtman-Entin-Wohlman-Aharony cross interactions is considered at thermal equilibrium.…
We report a thorough theoretical study of the low temperature phase diagram of Cs_2CuCl_4, a spatially anisotropic spin S=1/2 triangular lattice antiferromagnet, in a magnetic field. Our results, obtained in a quasi-one-dimensional limit in…
The pyrochlore material Nd$_2$Zr$_2$O$_7$ with an "all-in-all-out" (AIAO) magnetic order shows novel quantum moment fragmentation with gapped flat dynamical spin ice modes. The parameterized spin Hamiltonian with a dominant frustrated…
Transport of quantum information in linear spin chains has been the subject of much theoretical work. Experimental studies by nuclear spin systems in solid-state by NMR (a natural implementation of such models) is complicated since the…
Heisenberg spin-1/2 chain materials are known to substantially alter their static and dynamic properties when experiencing an effective transverse staggered field originating from the varying local environment of the individual spins. We…
MnWO4 is regarded as a canonical example of multiferroic materials, where the multiferroic activity is caused by a spin-spiral alignment. We argue that, in reality, MnWO4 has two sources of the spin-spirality, which conflict with each…
Using the density-matrix renormalization-group algorithm (DMRG) and a finite-size scaling analysis, we study the properties of the one-dimensional completely-anisotropic spin-1/2 XYZ model with Dzyaloshinsky-Moriya (DM) interactions. The…
We consider a simple integrable model of a spin chain exhibiting the Magnetoelectric Effect (MEE). Starting from the periodic S=1/2 XXZ-chain with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya terms, which we consider as a local electric polarization in the spirit…
When two quantum systems are coupled via a mediator, their dynamics has traces of non-classical properties of the mediator. We show how this observation can be effectively utilised to study the quantum nature of materials without…
We propose a new type of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interactions which act on high-rank multipolar moments such as quadrupolar and octupolar moments. Here we consider 5d1 systems with broken spatial inversion symmetry, where the interplay…
We examine thermal quantum correlations characterized by Measurement-Induced Nonlocality (MIN) in an infinite spin-1/2 Ising-Heisenberg spin chain with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interaction. We evaluate MIN analytically in the…
The ordering temperature of a quasi-one-dimensional system, consisting of weakly interacting quantum spin-1/2 chains with antiferromagnetic spin-frustrating couplings (or zig-zag ladder) is calculated. The results show that a quantum…
Ferromagnets crystallizing in structures described by chiral cubic space groups, including compounds with the B20 or $\beta$-Mn structures, are known to host long-period chiral spin textures such as skyrmion lattices. These spin textures…
Magnetic properties of the natural mineral Cu$_2$(OH)$_2$CO$_3$ (malachite) were investigated through DC and AC susceptibility measurements. The analysis of the low-temperature part reveals a quantum spin-gap behavior with $\Delta \approx…
We have investigated the physical effects of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interaction in copper benzoate. In the low field limit, the spin gap is found to vary as $H^{2/3}\ln ^{1/6}(J/\mu_BH_s)$ ($H_s$: an effective staggered field…
The Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) is an antisymmetric exchange interaction, which is responsible for the formation of topologically protected spin textures in chiral magnets. Here, by measuring the dispersion relation of the DM…
We consider the spin-1/2 XY chain in a transverse field with regularly varying exchange interactions and on-site fields. In two limiting cases of the isotropic XX and extremely anisotropic (Ising) exchange interaction the thermodynamic…
Using continued fractions we obtained the exact result for the density of magnon states of the regularly alternating spin-1/2 XX chain with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction. We examined the stability of the magnetic chain with respect to…