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We present a theory of out-of-equilibrium ultrafast spin dynamics in magnetic heterostructures based on the s-d model of ferromagnetism. Both in the bulk and across interfaces, the exchange processes between the itinerant s and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-02 Erlend G. Tveten , Arne Brataas , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

A universal numerical method is developed for the investigation of magnetic neutron scattering. By applying the pseudospectral-time-domain (PSTD) algorithm to the spinor version of the Schr\"odinger equation, the evolution of the spin-state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-31 Kun Chen

We discuss possible magnetic structures in UPt$_3$ based on our analysis of elastic neutron-scattering experiments in high magnetic fields at temperatures $T<T_N$. The existing experimental data can be explained by a single-{\bf q}…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 Juana Moreno , J. A. Sauls

Neutron scattering measurements have been performed on the S=1/2 quasi-one-dimensional system Sr_{14-x}Y_{x}Cu_{24}O_{41}, which has both simple chains and two-leg ladders of copper ions. We observed that when a small amount of yttrium is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-30 M. Matsuda , K. Katsumata , T. Osafune , N. Motoyama , H. Eisaki , S. Uchida , T. Yokoo , S. M. Shapiro , G. Shirane , J. L. Zarestky

Scattering of an electron in quasi-one dimensional quantum wires have many unusual features, not found in one, two or three dimensions. In this work we analyze the scattering phase shifts due to an impurity in a multi-channel quantum wire…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. Singha Deo , Swarnali Bandopadhyay , Sourin Das

Spin correlations and fluctuations in the 3d-transition-metal-based icosahedral quasicrystal Zn-Fe-Sc have been investigated by neutron scattering using polycrystalline samples. Magnetic diffuse scattering has been observed in the elastic…

We present a theoretical study of the potential of Principal Component Analysis to analyse magnetic diffuse neutron scattering data on quantum materials. To address this question, we simulate the scattering function…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-07-13 Robert Twyman , Stuart J Gibson , James Molony , Jorge Quintanilla

We report an inelastic neutron scattering study of magnetic excitations in a quantum paramagnet driven into a magnetically ordered state by chemical substitution, namely Ni(Cl$_{1-x}$Br$_x$)$_2$$\cdot$4SC(NH$_2$)$_2$ with $x=0.21(2)$. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-12-13 A. Mannig , K. Yu. Povarov , J. Ollivier , A. Zheludev

Using neutron scattering, we investigate the static and dynamic structure functions $S(Q,\omega)$ of 3 distinct solid phases (using powder average techniques), and characterize the corresponding modes of energy excitation, focusing…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-03-29 C. -Y. Liu , C. M. Lavelle , C. M. Brown

We study the character of an Ising nematic quantum phase transition (QPT) deep inside a d-wave superconducting state with nodal quasiparticles in a two-dimensional tetragonal crystal. We find that, within a 1/N expansion, the transition is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2008-05-23 Eun-Ah Kim , Michael J. Lawler , Paul Oreto , Subir Sachdev , Eduardo Fradkin , Steven A. Kivelson

Many low dimensional spin systems with a dimerized or ladder-like antiferromagnetic exchange coupling have a gapped excitation spectrum with magnetic bound states within the spin gap. For spin ladders with an even number of legs the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 P. Lemmens , M. Fischer , M. Grove , P. H. M. v. Loosdrecht , G. Els , E. Sherman , C. Pinettes , G. Güntherodt

We report high-resolution inelastic neutron scattering measurements of the excitation spectrum in large single crystals of the spin-1/2 triangular lattice Ising-like antiferromagnet Na2BaCo(PO4)2 in magnetic fields applied transverse to the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-16 Leonie Woodland , Ryutaro Okuma , J. Ross Stewart , Christian Balz , Radu Coldea

The magnetic excitations of the quasi-2D spin-1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnet on an anisotropic triangular lattice Cs2CuCl4 are explored throughout the 2D Brillouin zone using inelastic neutron scattering. In the spin liquid phase above the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-09-29 R. Coldea , D. A. Tennant , Z. Tylczynski

Of great recent interest in condensed matter physics are phenomena of coexistence of quantum and classical properties in the same material. Such duality occurs in certain mixed-spin antiferromagnets composed of quantum spin chains…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Zheludev , S. Maslov , T. Yokoo , J. Akimitsu , S. Raymond , S. E. Nagler

The multimagnon continua of 1D quantum spin systems possess several interesting singular features that may soon be accessible experimentally through inelastic neutron scattering. These include cusps and composition discontinuities in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 T. Barnes

Based on micromagnetic theory we have derived analytical expressions for the magnetic small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) cross section of a two-phase particle-matrix-type ferromagnet. The approach---valid close to magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-27 Dirk Honecker , Andreas Michels

In $d$-electron systems, there can also be intricate interplay between Kondo coupling and magnetic interactions as that in $f$-electron systems, but the underlying mechanism remains elusive. Here, using inelastic neutron scattering, we…

Elastic and inelastic neutron scattering studies reveal details of the antiferromagnetic tansition and intriguing spin-dynamics in the magneto-electric effect single crystal LiMnPO$_4$. The elastic scattering studies confirm the system is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 Jiying Li , Wei Tian , Ying Chen , Jerel L. Zarestky , Jeffrey W. Lynn , David Vaknin

An external magnetic field can induce a transition in $\alpha$-RuCl$_3$ from an ordered zigzag state to a disordered state that is possibly related to the Kitaev quantum spin liquid. Here we present new field dependent inelastic neutron…

We present a comprehensive study of magnon excitations in the tetragonal easy-plane anti-ferromagnet Bi$_2$CuO$_4$ using inelastic neutron scattering and spin wave analyses. The nature of low energy magnons, and hence the anisotropy in this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-04-14 Bo Yuan , Nicholas P. Butch , Guangyong Xu , Barry Winn , J. P. Clancy , Young-June Kim