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The spectrum of spin fluctuations in the stacked-triangular antiferromagnet YMnO3 was studied above the Neel temperature using both unpolarized and polarized inelastic neutron scattering. We find an in-plane and an out-of-plane excitation.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 B. Roessli , S. N. Gvasaliya , E. Pomjakushina , K. Conder

A rich variety of order parameter manifolds of multicomponent Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) admit various kinds of topological excitations, such as fractional vortices, monopoles, skyrmions, and knots. In this paper, we discuss two…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-12-14 Yuki Kawaguchi , Michikazu Kobayashi , Muneto Nitta , Masahito Ueda

We present detailed measurement of the non-hydrodynamic part of the spin excitation spectrum in the model quasi-1D S=1 antiferromagnet CsNiCl3 by inelastic magnetic neutron scattering. In the better part of the Brillouin zone the effect of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-07-28 I. A. Zaliznyak

We numerically investigate elementary excitations of the Heisenberg alternating-spin chains with two kinds of spins 1 and 1/2 antiferromagnetically coupled to each other. Employing a recently developed efficient Monte Carlo technique as…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-30 Shoji Yamamoto , S. Brehmer , H. -J. Mikeska

We present a new study of nonlinear NMR and Bose-Einstein Condensation (BEC) of nuclear spin waves in antiferromagnetic MnCO3 with coupled electron and nuclear spins. In particular, we show that the observed behaviour of NMR signals…

Ac and dc magnetization and heat-capacity (C) measurements performed on the pseudo-one-dimensional compound Sr$_3$CuIrO$_6$ reveal a competition between antiferromagnetic (AF) and ferromagnetic (F) exchange couplings, as evidenced by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 Asad Niazi , E. V. Sampathkumaran , P. L. Paulose , D. Eckert , A. Handstein , K. -H. Müller

When magnons and phonons, the fundamental quasiparticles of the solid, are coupled to one another, they form a new hybrid quasi-particle, leading to novel phenomena and interesting applications. Despite its wide-ranging importance, however,…

We extend recently proposed variational coupled-cluster method to describe excitation states of quantum antiferromagnetic bipartite lattices. We reproduce the spin-wave excitations (i.e., magnons with spin $\pm 1$). In addition, we obtain a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 Y. Xian

In a previous paper [Phys. Rev. B 85,195144 (2012)], variational Monte Carlo method (based on Gutzwiller projected states) was generalized to $S=1$ systems. This method provided very good trial ground states for the gapped phases of $S=1$…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-08-18 Zheng-Xin Liu , Yi Zhou , Tai-Kai Ng

Spin dynamics is considered in ferromagnets consisting of electron and nuclear subsystems interacting with each other through hyperfine forces. In addition, the ferromagnetic sample is coupled with a resonance electric circuit. Under these…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 V. I. Yukalov , M. G. Cottam , M. R. Singh

Inelastic neutron scattering was used to measure the magnetic field dependence of spin excitations in the antiferromagnetic S=1/2 chain CuCl_2 2(dimethylsulfoxide) (CDC) in the presence of uniform and staggered fields. Dispersive bound…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Kenzelmann , Y. Chen , C. Broholm , D. H. Reich , Y. Qiu

We show that despite the absence of a Hopf term and zero Berry phase terms, the N`eel ordered phase of 2+1 D quantum antiferromagnets have spin 1/2 excitations, i.e. spinons. The spinons are skyrmion excitations of a topological nature.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-31 Zaira Nazario , David I. Santiago

We show the structures of magnetic excitations in spin-1/2 kagome-lattice antiferromagnets Cs$_2$Cu$_3$SnF$_{12}$ and Rb$_2$Cu$_3$SnF$_{12}$ investigated by inelastic neutron scattering in wide energy and momentum ranges. For…

Terahertz time-domain spectroscopy was performed to directly probe the low-energy (1-5 meV) electrodynamics of triangular lattice antiferromagnets CuFe1-xGaxO2 (x = 0.00, 0.01, and 0.035). We discovered an electromagnon…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-19 S. Seki , N. Kida , S. Kumakura , R. Shimano , Y. Tokura

We report nuclear magnetic resonance measurements of the spin-1/2 anisotropic triangular lattice antiferromagnet Cs$_2$CuCl$_4$ as a function of temperature and applied magnetic field. The observed temperature and magnetic field dependence…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-04 M. -A. Vachon , G. Koutroulakis , V. F. Mitrović , Ookie Ma , J . B. Marston , A. P. Reyes , P. Kuhns , R. Coldea , Z. Tylczynski

The search for new materials for energy-efficient electronic devices has gained unprecedented importance. Among the various classes of magnetic materials driving this search are antiferromagnets, magnetoelectrics, and systems with…

We study the topological properties of magnon excitations in three-dimensional antiferromagnets, where the ground state configuration is invariant under time-reversal followed by space-inversion ($PT$-symmetry). We prove that Dirac points…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-20 Kangkang Li , Chenyuan Li , Jiangping Hu , Yuan Li , Chen Fang

We study the effect of site dilution and quantum fluctuations in an antiferromagnetic spin system on a square lattice within the linear spin-wave approximation. By performing numerical diagonalization in real space and finite-size scaling,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 Eduardo R. Mucciolo , A. H. Castro Neto , C. Chamon

Elementary excitations of an S = 1/2 antiferromagnetic Heisenberg chain KCuGaF6 were investigated through specific heat and electron spin resonance (ESR) measurements. In this compound, a staggered field is induced perpendicular to the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-19 I. Umegaki , T. Ono , H. Tanaka , M. Oshikawa , H. Nojiri

We report on the microscopic model of the recently synthesized one-dimensional quantum magnet (NO)Cu(NO3)3. Applying density functional theory band structure calculations, we obtain a leading antiferromagnetic exchange coupling J ~ 200 K,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-11-15 O. Janson , A. A. Tsirlin , H. Rosner