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Recently spin textures called skyrmions have been discovered in certain chiral magnetic materials without spatial inversion symmetry, and have attracted enormous attention due to their promising application in spintronics since only a low…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-06-18 Shi-Zeng Lin , Charles Reichhardt , Cristian D. Batista , Avadh Saxena

We report magnetocaloric and magnetic-torque evidence that in Cs$_{2}$CuBr$_{4}$ -- a geometrically frustrated Heisenberg $S=1/2$ triangular-lattice antiferromagnet -- quantum fluctuations stabilize a series of spin states at simple…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 N. A. Fortune , S. T. Hannahs , Y. Yoshida , T. E. Sherline , T. Ono , H. Tanaka , Y. Takano

We give a compact, frame-independent characterization of the set of classical second-order moments for a single spin-1 particle. Defining the moment matrix M = 2Q + (1/3) I, we show that a moment pair (s, Q) arises from a positive mixture…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-16 K. S. Mallesh

We investigate the general conditions to achieve the adiabatic charge and spin polarizations and quantized pumping in 2D magnetic insulators possessing inhomogeneous spin structures. In particular, we focus on the chiral ferrimagnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-30 Bohm-Jung Yang , Naoto Nagaosa

We show that classical Heisenberg antiferromagnets on the breathing kagome lattice can be a platform to realize a zero-field topological order of the scalar spin chirality which can be viewed as a miniature skyrmion crystal (SkX) of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-03-29 Kazushi Aoyama , Hikaru Kawamura

Spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in solids normally originates from the electron motion in the electric field of the crystal. It is key to understanding a variety of spin-transport and topological phenomena, such as Majorana fermions and recently…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-11-18 Sergey V. Syzranov , Michael L. Wall , Victor Gurarie , Ana Maria Rey

We obtain the ground-state phase diagram of two spin chains consisting in a set two-level systems asymmetrically coupled to an XX chain through a chiral interaction. The interaction is parametrized by its magnitude and an angle defined by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 Rafael D. Soares , J. M. Viana Parente Lopes , Hugo Terças

The wavefuntion of conduction electrons moving in the background of a non-coplanar spin structure can gain a quantal phase - Berry phase - as if the electrons were moving in a strong fictitious magnetic field. Such an emergent magnetic…

As one of the most intriguing states of matter, the chiral spin liquid (CSL) has attracted much scientific interest while its existence and mechanism in crystalline strongly correlated systems remain hotly debated. On the other hand, strong…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-04-09 Yixuan Huang , D. N. Sheng , Jian-Xin Zhu

Sr$_{3}$ZnIrO$_{6}$ is an effective spin one-half Mott insulating iridate belonging to a family of magnets which includes a number of quasi-one dimensional systems as well as materials exhibiting three dimensional order. Here we present the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-05-19 P. A. McClarty , A. D. Hillier , D. T. Adroja D. D. Khalyavin , S. Rayaprol , P. Manuel , W. Kockelmann , E. V. Sampathkumaran

Chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) describes how chiral molecules and materials generate spin polarization even at thermal equilibrium. This observation has challenged established principles of microscopic reversibility and Onsager…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-29 Pius M. Theiler , Matthew C. Beard

Spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) is a property of Hamiltonian equilibrium states which, in the thermodynamic limit, retain a finite average value of an order parameter even after a field coupled to it is adiabatically turned off. In the…

We study an effective one-dimensional quantum model that includes friction and spin-orbit coupling (SOC), and show that the model exhibits spin polarization when both terms are finite. Most important, strong spin polarization can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-29 Artem G. Volosniev , Hen Alpern , Yossi Paltiel , Oded Millo , Mikhail Lemeshko , Areg Ghazaryan

Scattering of electrons from chiral spin textures such as the skyrmions is an emerging research area due to its richness in topological quantum transport, which is significant for spintronic devices. We study the dynamical process of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Hareram Swain , Arijit Mandal , S. Satpathy , B. R. K. Nanda

Despite generally lacking ferromagnetic properties or strong spin-orbit coupling, electrons in chiral molecules exhibit unique spin-dependent transport behavior, known as chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS). This phenomenon implies a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-09-05 Peng-Yi Liu , Tian-Yi Zhang , Qing-Feng Sun

We explore the field induced magnetic phases of an $S=1$ $XXZ$ model with single-ion anisotropy and large Ising-like anisotropy on a Shastry Sutherland lattice over a wide range of Hamiltonian parameters and applied magnetic field. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-06-24 Lei Su , Keola Wierschem , Pinaki Sengupta

We study the magnetic properties of quark matter in the NJL model with the tensor interaction. The spin-polarized phase given by the tensor interaction remains even when the quark mass is zero, while the phase given by the axial vector…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-29 Tomoyuki Maruyama , Toshitaka Tatsumi

We calculate the energies of various multiple-spiral spin configurations for the three-dimensional model of chiral magnets. The ground-state phase diagram is obtained in the space of anisotropy, magnetic field, and interaction parameters.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-20 Jin-Hong Park , Jung Hoon Han

Quantum spin liquids represent a magnetic ground state arising in the presence of strong quantum fluctuations that preclude ordering down to zero temperature and leave clear fingerprints in the excitation spectra. While theory bears a…

Starting from the canonical ensemble over the space of pure quantum states, we obtain an integral representation for the partition function. This is used to calculate the magnetisation of a system of N spin-1/2 particles. The results…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-09-13 Dorje C. Brody , Lane P. Hughston , Matthew F. Parry