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We have shown that the observed drastic violation of the Curie-Weiss law in Na2V3O7, reported in Phys. Rev. Lett. 90 (2003) 167202, is caused by conventional crystal-field interactions and the intra-atomic spin-orbit coupling of the V4+…
We have shown that the observed large reduction of the effective moment and the drastic violation of the Curie-Weiss law in Na2V3O7 (Phys. Rev. Lett. 90 (2003) 167202) is caused by conventional crystal-field interactions and the…
At low temperatures, a spin ice enters a Coulomb phase - a state with algebraic correlations and topologically constrained spin configurations. In Ho2Ti2O7, we have observed experimentally that this process is accompanied by a non-standard…
We report the results of measurements of the dc-susceptibility and the 23Na-NMR response of Na2V2O7, a recently synthesized, non metallic low dimensional spin system. Our results indicate that upon reducing the temperature to below 100 K,…
A pronounced Curie-like upturn of the magnetic susceptibility chi(T) of the quasi one-dimensional spin chain compound Ba2V3O9 has been found recently. Frequently this is taken as a signature for a staggered field mechanism due to the…
We succeeded in remarkably nice theoretical description of the temperature dependence of the paramagnetic susceptibility of Ba$_2$YMoO$_6$ in the whole temperature range as originating from the atomic-scale discrete electronic structure of…
We report the results of low-temperature measurements of the specific heat Cp(T), ac susceptibility chi(T) and 23Na nuclear magnetic resonance NMR of Na2V3O7. At liquid He temperatures Cp(T)/T exhibits broad field-dependent maxima, which…
We have shown that the observed large reduction of the effective moment in Na2V3O7 may be caused by conventional crystal-field interactions and the intra-atomic spin-orbit coupling of the V4+ ion. The fine discrete electronic structure of…
Effects of orbital degeneracy on magnetic susceptibility in paramagnetic phases are investigated within a mean-field theory. Under certain crystalline electric fields, the magnetic moment consists of two independent moments, e.g., spin and…
We present theoretical studies of temperature dependent diamagnetic-paramagnetic transitions in thin quantum rings. Our studies show that the magnetic susceptibility of metal/semiconductor rings can exhibit multiple sign flips at…
We study electron correlations and their impact on magnetic properties of bcc vanadium by a combination of density functional and dynamical mean-field theory. The calculated uniform magnetic susceptibility {in bcc structure} is of Pauli…
We have studied properties of the one-3d-electron cation (Ti 3+, V 4+ ions) under the action of the low-symmetry crystal field in the presence of the spin- orbit coupling. Very anomalous temperature dependences of the magnetic…
We present an experimental determination of the isothermal magnetic susceptibility of the spin ice materials Dy2Ti2O7 and Ho2Ti2O7 in the temperature range 1.8-300 K. The use of spherical crystals has allowed the accurate correction for…
The magnetic behaviour of the low-dimensional Vanadium-oxides Sr2V3O9 and Ba2V3O9 was investigated by means of magnetic susceptibility and specific heat measurements. In both compounds, the results can be very well described by an S=1/2…
We present results of extensive finite-temperature Quantum Monte Carlo simulations on a SU(2) symmetric S=1/2 quantum antiferromagnet with a four-spin interaction [Sandvik, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 227202 (2007)]. Our simulations, which are…
Low-temperature thermodynamic properties of strongly interacting Fermi liquids with fermion condensate are investigated. We demonstrate that the spin susceptibility of these systems exhibits the Curie-Weiss law, and the entropy contains a…
The frustrated pyrochlore iridate Pr$_2$Ir$_2$O$_7$ was proposed as a metallic quantum spin liquid located at a zero-field quantum critical point. Here we present the ultralow-temperature thermal conductivity measurements on the…
We have performed measurements of the magnetic susceptibility of NaV$_2$O$_5$ between 2 and 400 K. The high temperature part is typical of spin 1/2 chains with a nearest--neighbour antiferromagnetic exchange integral $J$ of 529 K. We…
In spin-orbit-coupled magnetic materials, the usually applied Curie-Weiss law can break down. This is due to potentially sharp temperature-dependence of the local magnetic moments. We therefore propose a modified Curie-Weiss formula…
In an effort to elucidate the origin of the Curie-like paramagnetism that is generic for heavily-overdoped cuprates, we have performed high transverse-field muon spin rotation (TF-muSR) measurements of La2-xSrxCuO4 single crystals over the…