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We investigate the effect of spin-orbit coupling on the behavior of magnetic impurity at the edge of a zigzag graphene ribbon by means of quantum Monte Carlo simulations. A peculiar interplay of Kane-Mele type spin-orbit and impurity-host…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-08-09 F. M. Hu , T. O. Wehling , J. E. Gubernatis , Thomas Frauenheim , R. M. Nieminen

We study the effects of a small density of holes, delta, on a square lattice antiferromagnet undergoing a continuous transition from a Neel state to a valence bond solid at a deconfined quantum critical point. We argue that at non-zero…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-06-27 Ribhu K. Kaul , Alexei Kolezhuk , Michael Levin , Subir Sachdev , T. Senthil

Static disorder in a noninteracting gas of electrons confined to two dimensions can drive a continuous quantum (Anderson) transition between a metallic and an insulating state when time-reversal symmetry is preserved but spin-rotation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-09-03 Hideaki Obuse , Akira Furusaki , Shinsei Ryu , Christopher Mudry

We study the non-local superconducting pairing of two interacting Anderson impurities, which has an instability near the quantum critical point from the competition between the Kondo effect and an antiferromagnetic inter-impurity spin…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-05-11 Lijun Zhu , Jian-Xin Zhu

We utilize variational method to investigate the Kondo screening of a spin-1/2 magnetic impurity in tilted Dirac surface states with the Dirac cone tilted along the $k_y$-axis. We mainly study about the effect of the tilting term on the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-01-22 Jin-Hua Sun , Lu-Ji Wang , Xing-Tai Hu , Lin Li , Dong-Hui Xu

Higher order quantum effects on the magnetic phase diagram induced by four-spin ring exchange on plaquettes are investigated for a two-dimensional quantum antiferromagnet with S=1/2. Spatial anisotropy and frustration are allowed for. Using…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-04 Kingshuk Majumdar , Douglas Furton , Goetz S. Uhrig

We consider an electron magnetically interacting with a spin-1/2 impurity, embedded in an external environment whose noisy term acts only on the impurity's spin, and we find expressions for the electron transmission and reflection…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Alexandra M. Liguori , Giovanni Moras

Altermagnetic superconductors offer the possibility of exploring unconventional superconductivity, including topological states and finite-momentum superconductivity, with promising applications in spintronics and quantum information.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-07-22 Andrea Maiani , Rubén Seoane Souto

We demonstrate that the magnetic susceptibility of strongly alternating antiferromagnetic spin-1/2 chains is an entanglement witness. Specifically, magnetic susceptibility of copper nitrate (CN) measured in 1963 (Berger et al., Phys. Rev.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Caslav Brukner , Vlatko Vedral , Anton Zeilinger

We report on an experimental study of the Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick model of quantum spins interacting at infinite range in a transverse magnetic field, which exhibits a ferromagnetic phase transition in the thermodynamic limit. We use…

The effective interaction between magnetic impurities in metals that can lead to various magnetic ground states often competes with a tendency for electrons near impurities to screen the local moment (Kondo effect). The simplest system…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 N. J. Craig , J. M. Taylor , E. A. Lester , C. M. Marcus , M. P. Hanson , A. C. Gossard

The interpretation of the magnetic phase diagrams of strongly correlated electron systems remains controversial. In particular, the physics of quantum phase transitions, which occur at zero temperature, is still enigmatic. Heavy-fermion…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-11-08 W. Knafo , S. Raymond , P. Lejay , J. Flouquet

The duality between localized and itinerant nature of magnetism in $5\textit{f}$ electron systems has been a longstanding puzzle. Here, we report inelastic neutron scattering measurements, which reveal both local and itinerant aspects of…

The spin-phase interference effects are studied analytically in resonant quantum tunneling of the N\'{e}el vector between degenerate excited levels in nanometer-scale single-domain antiferromagnets in the absence of an external magnetic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 Rong Lu , Jia-Lin Zhu , Yi Zhou , Bing-Lin Gu

Quantum-critical behavior of the itinerant electron antiferromagnet (V0.9Ti0.1)2O3 has been studied by single-crystal neutron scattering. By directly observing antiferromagnetic spin fluctuations in the paramagnetic phase, we have shown…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-09-02 Hiroaki Kadowaki , Kiyoichiro Motoya , Taku J. Sato , J. W. Lynn , J. A. Fernandez-Baca , Jun Kikuchi

We investigate quantum impurity problems, where a local magnetic moment is coupled to the spin density of a bosonic environment, leading to bosonic versions of the standard Kondo and Anderson impurity models. In a physical situation, these…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-11-26 Serge Florens , Lars Fritz , Matthias Vojta

We study a quantum impurity coupled to the edge states of a two-dimensional helical topological superconductor, i.e., to a pair of counterpropagating Majorana fermion edge channels with opposite spin polarizations. For an impurity described…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-11-15 Rok Zitko , Pascal Simon

We numerically study quantum magnetism of ultra-cold alkali and alkaline-earth fermion systems with large hyperfine spin $F=3/2$, which are characterized by a generic $Sp(N)$ symmetry with N=4. The methods of exact diagonalization (ED) and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-08-09 Hsiang-hsuan Hung , Yupeng Wang , Congjun Wu

The problem of a spin-1/2 magnetic impurity near an antiferromagnetic transition of the host lattice is solved. The problem is shown to transform to a multichannel problem. A variety of fixed points is discovered asymptotically near the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Maebashi , K. Miyake , C. M. Varma

Using the density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) method, we study the quantum coherence in one-dimensional disordered Fermi systems. We consider in detail spinless fermions on a ring, and compare the influence of several kinds of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-09-27 C. Schuster , U. Eckern