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Magnetic point-group analysis classifies altermagnets but returns only a binary symmetry verdict, leaving spin-splitting energy (SSE) inaccessible without spin-polarized density functional theory (DFT). This binary ceiling is not…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-14 Kichan Chun , Gunn Kim

Strong electron correlations in rare earth hexaborides can give rise to a variety of interesting phenomena like ferromagnetism, Kondo hybridization, mixed valence, superconductivity and possibly topological characteristics. The theoretical…

Samarium hexaboride (SmB6), which lies in the mixed valence regime in the Anderson model, has been predicted to possess topologically protected surface states. The intensive investigations on SmB6 have brought up the long standing questions…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-10-10 P. Lutz , M. Thees , T. R. F. Peixoto , B. Y. Kang , B. K. Cho , Chul-Hee Min , F. Reinert

Spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) is a key concept in physics that for decades has played a crucial role in the description of many physical phenomena in a large number of different areas, like particle physics, cosmology, and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-08-25 J. Smits , H. T. C. Stoof , P. van der Straten

Spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) occurs when a many-body system governed by a symmetric Hamiltonian, and prepared in a symmetry-broken state by the application of a field coupling to its order parameter $O$, retains a finite $O$ value…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-23 Filippo Caleca , Saverio Bocini , Fabio Mezzacapo , Tommaso Roscilde

Symmetry breaking has been a central theme in classifying quantum phases and phase transitions. Recently, this concept has been extended to the mixed states of open systems, attracting considerable attention due to the emergence of novel…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-21 Yuxuan Guo , Sheng Yang , Xue-Jia Yu

We analyze the bipartite and multipartite entanglement for the ground state of the one-dimensional XY model in a transverse magnetic field in the thermodynamical limit. We explicitly take into account the spontaneous symmetry breaking in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-03-20 Thiago R. de Oliveira , Gustavo Rigolin , Marcos C. de Oliveira , E. Miranda

Spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) is key for our understanding of phase transitions and the spontaneous emergence of order. Photonics provide versatile systems to study SSB. In this work, we report that for a two-dimensional (2D) periodic…

While SmB$_6$ attracts attention as a possible topological Kondo insulator, EuB$_6$ is known to host magnetic polarons that give rise to large magnetoresistive effects above its ferromagnetic order transition. Here we investigate single…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-12 M. Victoria Ale Crivillero , Priscila F. S. Rosa , Z. Fisk , J. Müller , P. Schlottmann , S. Wirth

We studied the electronic structure of SmB6 employing density functional theory (DFT) using different exchange potentials, spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and electron correlation (U = correlation strength). All the calculations carried out in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-08-05 Anup Pradhan Sakhya , Kalobaran Maiti

Samarium hexaboride is a candidate for the topological Kondo insulator state, in which Kondo coherence is predicted to give rise to an insulating gap spanned by topological surface states. Here we investigate the surface and bulk electronic…

A microscopic theory for rare-earth ferromagnetic hexaborides, such as Eu(1-x)Ca(x)B6, is proposed on the basis of the double-exchange Hamiltonian. In these systems, the reduced carrier concentrations place the Fermi level near the mobility…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 Vitor M. Pereira , J. M. B. Lopes dos Santos , Eduardo V. Castro , A. H. Castro Neto

This chapter takes a microscopic view of quantum tunneling of magnetization (QTM) in single-molecule magnets (SMMs), focusing on the interplay between exchange and anisotropy. Careful consideration is given to the relationship between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-04 Junjie Liu , Enrique del Barco , Stephen Hill

Electronic states under pressure exhibit unconventional spin and charge dynamics that provide a powerful route to uncover exotic phases in quantum materials. Here, we present the structural, magnetic, and electronic evolution of…

We report on the consequences of non-uniform exchange in magnetic systems. The quantum mechanical exchange interaction between spins is responsible for the phenomenon of magnetic order, and is generally considered to be uniform across bulk…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-09-22 Rair Macêdo , Arjun S. Kudinoor , Karen L. Livesey , Robert E. Camley

We theoretically consider bilayers of two dimensional (2D) electron gases as in semiconductor quantum wells, and investigate possible spontaneous symmetry breaking transitions at low carrier densities driven by interlayer Coulomb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-19 Tessa Cookmeyer , Sankar Das Sarma

This study explores the mechanisms of spin-orbit torque (SOT) switching in ferromagnetic semiconductors (FMS) with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA), emphasizing the impact of symmetry-breaking. Using micromagnetic simulations based…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-25 Apu Kumar Jana , Sanghoon Lee

The primary requirement for achieving spin-selective electron transfer in a nanojunction possessing a magnetic system with zero net magnetization is to break the symmetry between the up and down spin sub-Hamiltonians. Circumventing the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 Prabhab Patra , Santanu K. Maiti

Solid state quantum computing proposals rely on adiabatic operations of the exchange gate among localized spins in nanostructures. We study corrections to the Heisenberg interaction between lateral semiconductor quantum dots in an external…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. W. Scarola , S. Das Sarma

We propose a fundamental setup for the realization of spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) and spontaneous antisymmetry breaking (SASB) in the framework of the nonlinear Schroedinger equation with the self-attractive and repulsive cubic…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-07-15 Hidetsugu Sakaguchi , Boris A. Malomed , T. J. Taiwo