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Quantum sensors based on individual spins provide unprecedented access to local magnetic fields in condensed matter, chemistry, and biology, with solid-state defect spins emerging as the leading platform. However, their molecular-sensing…

Atomic-scale modeling of magnetic materials requires precise treatment of coupled spin-lattice degrees of freedom (DOFs). Traditional spin-lattice dynamics (SLD), employing Newtonian equation for lattice evolution and the…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-06 Zhengtao Huang , Han Wang , Ben Xu

Quantum simulation with controllable many-body platforms offers a powerful route to exploring complex phases and dynamics that are difficult to access in natural materials. Among these, topological spin textures such as skyrmions are…

Topologically non-trivial spin textures, such as skyrmions and dislocations, display emergent electrodynamics and can be moved by spin currents over macroscopic distances. These unique properties and their nanoscale size make them excellent…

Topological spin textures such as magnetic skyrmions hold considerable promise as robust, nanometre-scale, mobile bits for sustainable computing. A longstanding roadblock to unleashing their potential is the absence of a device enabling…

We present flatspin, a novel simulator for systems of interacting mesoscopic spins on a lattice, also known as artificial spin ice (ASI). Our magnetic switching criteria enables ASI dynamics to be captured in a dipole model. Through GPU…

We prove that estimating the ground state energy of a translationally-invariant, nearest-neighbour Hamiltonian on a 1D spin chain is QMAEXP-complete, even for systems of low local dimension (roughly 40). This is an improvement over the best…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-15 Johannes Bausch , Toby Cubitt , Maris Ozols

In the spirit of multi-scale modeling, we develop a theoretical framework for spin-lattice coupling that connects, on the one hand, to ab initio calculations of spin-lattice coupling parameters and, on the other hand, to the magneto-elastic…

The human brain achieves exceptional energy efficiency by co-locating memory and processing, yet reproducing this principle in hardware remains challenging because many neuromorphic devices require standby power, offer limited…

Single molecular magnets (SMMs) and Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) attract significant interest due to their potential in quantum information processing, scalable quantum computing, and extended lifetimes and coherence times. The limiting…

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Long-lived spin-helix states facilitate the study of non-equilibrium dynamics in quantum magnets. We consider the decay of transverse spin-helices in antiferromagnetic spin-$S$ XXZ chains with single-ion anisostropy. The spin-helix decay is…

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We review the problem of spin decoherence of magnetic atoms deposited on a surface. Recent breakthroughs in scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM) make it possible to probe the spin dynamics of individual atoms, either isolated or integrated…

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The reliable simulation of spin models is of critical importance to tackle complex optimization problems that are intractable on conventional computing machines. The recently introduced hyperspin machine, which is a network of linearly and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-11-05 Marcello Calvanese Strinati , Claudio Conti

Magnetic topological defects are energetically stable spin configurations characterized by symmetry breaking. Vortices and skyrmions are two well-known examples of 2D spin textures that have been actively studied for both fundamental…

Artificial quantum systems have emerged as indispensable platforms to realize exotic topological matter in a well-controlled manner. Here, we demonstrate topological quantum Heisenberg spin lattices, engineered with spin chains and…

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The investigation of magnetic solitons often relies on numerical modeling to determine key features such as stability, annihilation, nucleation, and motion. However, as soliton sizes approach atomic length scales, the accuracy of these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Matthew Copus , Ezio Iacocca

Shape adaptive shape memory alloy hybrid composites (SMAHCs) are composites that incorporate shape memory alloys (SMAs) to realize shape transformation. Despite the availability of numerous analytical and finite element models for…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Lukas Handl , Max Kaiser , Miro Duhovic , Martin Gurka

The nuclear spin, being much more isolated from the environment than its electronic counterpart, enables quantum experiments with prolonged coherence times and presents a gateway towards uncovering the intricate dynamics within an atom.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-08 Lukas M. Veldman , Evert W. Stolte , Mark P. Canavan , Rik Broekhoven , Philip Willke , Laëtitia Farinacci , Sander Otte

A one-dimensional quantum spin model with the competing two-spin and three-spin interactions is investigated in the context of a tensor network algorithm based on the infinite matrix product state representation. The algorithm is an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-28 Hong-Lei Wang , Yan-Wei Dai , Bing-Quan Hu , Huan-Qiang Zhou