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We diagonalize the quantum two-dimensional spin-1/2 Heisenberg model with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) by applying the variational quantum eigensolver, running on a quantum-computer simulator, which turns out to be a more…

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Achieving long-range ferrimagnetic order in purely organic systems remains a major challenge in molecular magnetism. Here we report the synthesis and characterization of heterospin-coupling motifs, formed by covalently linking spin-1/2 and…

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Antiferromagnetic (AFM) and ferromagnetic (FM) skyrmions possess unique advantages for spintronic applications. AFM skyrmions eliminate the skyrmion Hall effect and exhibit fast dynamics, whereas FM skyrmions are easier to nucleate and…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-03 Xinyang Jiang , Jian Wu , Weiyi Pan

Two-dimensional chiral magnets are known to host a variety of skyrmions, characterized by an integer topological charge. However, these systems typically favor uniform lattices as a thermodynamically stable phase composed of either…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-18 Sayan Banik , Nikolai S. Kiselev , Ashis K. Nandy

We consider the $S=1/2$ Heisenberg antiferromagnet on the Tasaki square lattice (flat-band spin system) and study its low-temperature thermodynamics around the saturation magnetic field. To this end, we construct a mapping of the ground…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-05 Maksym Parymuda , Taras Krokhmalskii , Oleg Derzhko

In magnetism, skyrmions correspond to classical three-dimensional spin textures characterized by a topological invariant that keeps track of the winding of the magnetization in real space, a property that cannot be easily generalized to the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-01-04 O. M. Sotnikov , V. V. Mazurenko , J. Colbois , F. Mila , M. I. Katsnelson , E. A. Stepanov

Magnetic skyrmions are localized, topologically protected spin-structures that have been proposed for storing or processing information due to their intriguing dynamical and transport properties. Important in terms of applications is the…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-06-07 B. Dupé , G. Bihlmayer , S. Blügel , S. Heinze

Magnetic skyrmions present interesting physics due to their topological nature and hold significant promise for future information technologies. A key barrier to realizing skyrmion devices has been stabilizing these spin structures under…

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically non-trivial spin structure, and their existence in ferromagnetically coupled multilayers has been reported with disordered arrangement. In these multilayers, the heavy metal spacing layers provide an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-10-30 Yong Li , Qiyuan Feng , Sihua Li , Ke Huang , Weiliang Gan , Haibiao Zhou , Xiangjun Jin , Xiao Renshaw Wang , Fusheng Ma , Qingyou Lu , Wen Siang Lew

We study the ground-state properties of the quantum spin liquid (QSL) phases of the spin-$1/2$ antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model on the triangular lattice with nearest- ($J_1$), next-nearest- ($J_2$), and third-neighbor ($J_3$)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-05-10 Yi-Fan Jiang , Hong-Chen Jiang

The instability toward a magnetic skyrmion crystal in centrosymmetric trilayer magnets is investigated based on a spin model with layer-dependent Dzayloshinskii-Moriya interaction. We find various types of skyrmion crystal phases with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-10 Satoru Hayami

We present a theoretical mapping to show that a ferromagnet with gain (loss) is equivalent to an antiferromagnet with an equal amount of loss (gain). Our finding indicates a novel first-order ferromagnet-antiferromagnet phase transition by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-07 Huanhuan Yang , C. Wang , Tianlin Yu , Yunshan Cao , Peng Yan

Recent experiments on the anisotropic spin-1/2 triangular antiferromagnet Cs_2CuBr_4 have revealed a remarkably rich phase diagram in applied magnetic fields, consisting of an unexpectedly large number of ordered phases. Motivated by this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-01-04 Christian Griset , Shane Head , Jason Alicea , Oleg A. Starykh

We study an extended Kitaev model on the triangular lattice in a limit where the symmetric off-diagonal bond-dependent and Heisenberg interactions together map onto an XXZ model, in addition to the Kitaev interaction. Within the previously…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-27 Bogeng Wen , Jiefu Cen , Hae-Young Kee

Quantum skyrmionic phase is modelled in a 2D helical spin lattice. This topological skyrmionic phase retains its nature in a large parameter space before moving to a ferromagnetic phase. Next nearest-neighbour interaction improves the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-04-18 Vipin Vijayan , L. Chotorlishvili , A. Ernst , S. S. P. Parkin , M. I. Katsnelson , S. K. Mishra

We consider the spin-1/2 antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model on the two-dimensional square-kagome lattice with almost dispersionless lowest magnon band. For a general exchange coupling geometry we elaborate low-energy effective Hamiltonians…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-09-08 Oleg Derzhko , Johannes Richter , Olesia Krupnitska , Taras Krokhmalskii

We present a systematic study of the formation of skyrmion crystals in a triangular Kondo Lattice model for generic electron filling fractions. Our results indicate that the four-sublattice chiral antiferromagnetic ordering that was…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-10-18 Zhentao Wang , Cristian D. Batista

The analytical model is developed for description of skyrmions and skyrmion-like magnetic structures in a two-sublattice antiferromagnet with uniaxial magnetic anisotropy and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction. Relativistic contraction of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-09 O. Yu. Gorobets , Yu. I. Gorobets , V. S. Kovalenko

We determine the quantum phase diagram of the antiferromagnetic spin-1/2 XXZ model on the triangular lattice as a function of magnetic field and anisotropic coupling $J_z$. Using the density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) algorithm in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-05 Daniel Sellmann , Xue-Feng Zhang , Sebastian Eggert

At zero temperature the sublattice magnetization of the quantum spin-1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnet on a body-centered cubic lattice with competing first and second neighbor exchange (J1 and J2) is investigated using the non-linear spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 Kingshuk Majumdar , Trinanjan Datta