446 research outputs found
Quantum phase transitions in a new exactly solvable quantum spin biaxial model with multiple spin interactions
The new integrable quantum spin model is proposed. The model has a biaxial
magnetic anisotropy of alternating coupling between spins together with
multiple spin interactions. Our model gives the possibility to exactly find
thermodynamic characteristics of the considered spin chain. The ground state of
the model can reveal spontaneous values of the total magnetic and
antiferromagnetic moments, caused by multiple spin couplings. Also, in the
ground state, depending on the strength of multiple spin couplings, our model
manifests several quantum critical points, some of which are governed by the
external magnetic field
On Chromospheric Variations Modeling for Main-Sequence Stars of G and K Spectral Classes
We present a method of chromospheric flux simulation for 13 late-type
main-sequence stars. These Sun-like stars have well-determined cyclic flux
variations similar to 11 yr solar activity cycle. Our flux prediction is based
on chromospheric HK emission time series measurements from Mount Wilson
Observatory and comparable solar data. We show that solar three - component
modeling explains well the stellar observations. We find that the 10 - 20% of K
- stars disc surfaces are occupied by bright active regions.Comment: 8 pages, 2 figure
Prediction for new magnetoelectric fluorides
We use symmetry considerations in order to predict new magnetoelectric
fluorides. In addition to these magnetoelectric properties, we discuss among
these fluorides the ones susceptible to present multiferroic properties. We
emphasize that several materials present ferromagnetic properties. This
ferromagnetism should enhance the interplay between magnetic and dielectric
properties in these materials.Comment: 12 pages, 4 figures, To appear in Journal of Physics: Condensed
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Spin wave resonances in antiferromagnets
Spin wave resonances with enormously large wave numbers corresponding to wave
vectors 10^5-10^6 cm^{-1} are observed in thin plates of FeBO3. The study of
spin wave resonances allows one to obtain information about the spin wave
spectrum. The temperature dependence of a non-uniform exchange constant is
determined for FeBO3. Considerable softening of the magnon spectrum resulting
from the interaction of magnons, is observed at temperatures above 1/3 of the
Neel temperature. The excitation level of spin wave resonances is found to
depend significantly on the inhomogeneous elastic distortions artificially
created in the sample. A theoretical model to describe the observed effects is
proposed.Comment: 6 pages, 6 figure
Magneto-electric effect in NdCrTiO5
We have measured the dielectric constant and the pyroelectric current of
orthorhombic (space group ) NdCrTiO polycrystalline samples. The
dielectric constant and the pyroelectric current show features associated with
ferroelectric transitions at the antiferromagnetic transition temperature
( = 21 K). The effect of magnetic fields is to enhance the
features almost linearly up to the maximum measured field (7 T) with a
spontaneous polarization value of C/m. Two possible
scenarios, the linear magnetoelectric effect and multiferroicity
(antiferromagnetism + ferroelectricity), are discussed as possible explanations
for the observations.Comment: 7 pages, 6 figure
Spin Josephson effect in ferromagnet/ferromagnet tunnel junctions
We consider the tunnel spin current between two ferromagnetic metals from a
perspective similar to the one used in superconductor/superconductor tunnel
junctions. We use fundamental arguments to derive a Josephson-like spin tunnel
current . Here the phases are
associated with the planar contribution to the magnetization,
. The crucial step in our
analysis is the fact that the -component of the spin is canonically
conjugate to the phase of the planar contribution: . This is
analogous to the commutation relation in superconductors, where
is the phase associated to the superconducting order parameter and
is the Cooper pair number operator. We briefly discuss the experimental
consequences of our theoretical analysis.Comment: LaTex, seven pages, no figures; version to appear in Europhys. Lett.;
in order to make room for a more extended microscopic analysis, the
phenomenological discussion contained in v2 was remove
Phonons in magnon superfluid and symmetry breaking field
Recent experiments [1],[2] which measured the spectrum of the Goldstone
collective mode of coherently precessing state in 3He-B are discussed using the
presentation of the coherent spin precession in terms of the Bose-Einstein
condensation of magnons. The mass in the spectrum of the Goldstone boson --
phonon in the superfluid magnon liquid -- is induced by the symmetry breaking
field, which is played by the RF magnetic fieldComment: 2 pages, JETP Letters style, no figures, version accepted in JETP
Letter
Temperature-Dependent Magnetoelectric Effect from First Principles
We show that nonrelativistic exchange interactions and spin fluctuations can give rise to a linear magnetoelectric effect in collinear antiferromagnets at elevated temperatures that can exceed relativistic magnetoelectric responses by more than 1 order of magnitude. We show how symmetry arguments, ab initio methods, and Monte Carlo simulations can be combined to calculate temperature-dependent magnetoelectric susceptibilities entirely from first principles. The application of our method to Cr2O3 gives quantitative agreement with experiment.
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