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Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-07 Gil Refael , Stefan Kehrein , Daniel S. Fisher

We investigate spin-flip excitations in the spin-1/2 trimer chain $\rm{Cu_3(P_2O_6OH)_2}$, featuring an antiferromagnetic exchange motif $J_1$-$J_1$-$J_2$ with $J_1 < J_2$. Using density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) simulations, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-30 Subhajyoti Pal , Pradeep Thakur , Ashis Kumar Nandy , Anamitra Mukherjee

The inelastic scattering of neutrons from magnetic excitations in the antiferromagnetic phase of the langasite compound Ba3NbFe3Si2O14 is analyzed theoretically. In the calculations presented, the strongly coupled spin-5/2 Fe triangles are…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-28 Jens Jensen

We report a neutron scattering study of the spin-1/2 alternating bond antiferromagnet Cu(NO_3)_2. 2.5D_2O for 0.06<k_BT/J_1<1.5. For k_BT/J_1 << 1 the excitation spectrum is dominated by a coherent singlet-triplet mode centered at…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 Guangyong Xu , C. Broholm , Daniel H. Reich , M. A. Adams

We present a detailed numerical analysis of the low energy excitation spectrum of a frustrated and dimerized spin $S=1/2$ Heisenberg chain. In particular, we show that in the commensurate spin--Peierls phase the ratio of the singlet and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-31 G. Bouzerar , A. P. Kampf , G. I. Japaridze

Excitation of finite chains of magnetic atoms adsorbed on a surface by tunnelling electrons from an STM (Scanning Tunnelling Microscope) tip is studied using a Heisenberg Hamiltonian description of the magnetic couplings along the chain and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-10-19 J. P. Gauyacq , N. Lorente

The $s=1/2$ chain-boundary excitations occurring in the Haldane phaseof $s=1$ antiferromagnetic spin chains are investigated. The bilinear-biquadratic hamiltonian is used to study these excitations as a function of the strength of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 E. Polizzi , F. Mila , E. S. Sorensen

The natural explanation of the excitation spectrum of the spin-1 antiferromagnetic Heisenberg chain is given from the viewpoint of the spin-1/2 ferromagnetic-antiferromagnetic alternating Heisenberg chain. The energy spectrum of the latter…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Kazuo Hida

From general arguments, that are valid for spin models with sufficiently short-range interactions, we derive strong constraints on the excitation spectrum across a continuous phase transition at zero temperature between a magnetic and a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 Leonardo Spanu , Federico Becca , Sandro Sorella

We investigate a spin-1/2 antiferromagnetic chain with trimerized exchange couplings relevant to Na$_2$Cu$_3$Ge$_4$O$_{12}$. We show that the low-energy Hilbert space maps onto an effective Heisenberg chain of composite spin-1/2 trimer…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-26 Snehasish Sen , Sudhansu S. Mandal

We obtain the solution of the Hamiltonian of an antiferromagnetically coupled spin-$1/2$ trimer chain in terms of three bands that host three different species of fermions. While the lowest two bands correspond to spin-$1/2$ fermions, the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-26 P. Srikanth Patnaik , Snehasish Sen , A. K. Bera , Sudhansu S. Mandal , Anushree Roy , S. M. Yusuf

We calculate the excitation spectrum and spectral weights of the alternating antiferromagnetic-ferromagnetic spin-half Heisenberg chain with exchange couplings $J$ and $-|\lambda|J$ as a power series in $\lambda$. For small $|\lambda|$, the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Weihong Zheng , Chris Hamer , Rajiv Singh

We study the elementary excitations and magnetization of a one-dimensional spin-1/2 XX chain comprising trimer-dimer units (the J1-J1-J2-J3-J2 topology) under a transverse magnetic field h. Using Green's function theory and the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-09 K. S. Chikara , A. K. Bera , A. Kumar , S. M. Yusuf

We study the level structure of excitations at the "deconfined" critical point separating antiferromagnetic and valence-bond-solid phases in two-dimensional quantum spin systems using the $J$-$Q$ model as an example. Energy gaps in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-10-18 Hidemaro Suwa , Arnab Sen , Anders W. Sandvik

A spin and phonon excitations spectrum are studied using quantum Monte Carlo method in antiferromagnetic chain with spins $S=1/2$ coupled nonadiabaticity with acoustic phonons . It is found the critical coupling exists to open gap in the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 S. S. Aplesnin

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 investigate the spin dynamics of a 1D spin-1/2 Heisenberg tetramer chain. Employing a combination of Density Matrix Renormalization Group, quantum renormalization group, and perturbation theory techniques, we compute the energy levels…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-08 Junli Li , Jun-Qing Cheng , Trinanjan Datta , Dao-Xin Yao

The search for topological insulators has been actively promoted in the field of condensed matter physics for further development in energy-efficient information transmission and processing. In this context, recent studies have revealed…

Fractionalization is a phenomenon in which strong interactions in a quantum system drive the emergence of excitations with quantum numbers that are absent in the building blocks. Outstanding examples are excitations with charge e/3 in the…

The excitation spectrum of the 2-leg S=1/2 Heisenberg ladder is examined perturbatively. Using an optimally chosen continuous unitary transformation we expand the Hamiltonian and the Raman operator about the limit of isolated rungs leading…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 Christian Knetter , Kai P. Schmidt , Götz S. Uhrig