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Dzyaloshinsky-Moriya interaction in vesignieite: A route to freezing in a quantum kagome antiferromagnet
We report an electron spin resonance investigation of the geometrically
frustrated spin-1/2 kagome antiferromagnet vesignieite,
BaCuVO(OH). Analysis of the line widths and line shifts
indicates the dominance of in-plane Dzyaloshinsky-Moriya anisotropy that is
proposed to suppress strongly quantum spin fluctuations and thus to promote
long-range ordering rather than a spin-liquid state. We also evidence an
enhanced spin-phonon contribution that might originate from a lattice
instability and discuss the origin of a low-temperature mismatch between
intrinsic and bulk susceptibility in terms of local inhomogeneity
17O NMR study of the intrinsic magnetic susceptibility and spin dynamics of the quantum kagome antiferromagnet ZnCu3(OH)6Cl2
We report through 17O NMR, an unambiguous local determination of the
intrinsic kagome lattice spin susceptibility as well as that created around
non-magnetic defects issued from natural Zn/ Cu exchange in the S=1/2 (Cu2+)
herbertsmithite ZnCu3(OH)6Cl2 compound. The issue of a singlet-triplet gap is
addressed. The magnetic response around a defect is found to markedly differ
from that observed in non-frustrated antiferromagnetic materials. Finally, we
discuss our relaxation measurements in the light of Cu and Cl NMR data
[cond-mat 070314] and suggest a flat q-dependence of the excitations.Comment: Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett., 3 jan. 2008 Figure 1
has been modified to include a two-components fit of the 17O NMR spectru
Anomalous direction for skyrmion bubble motion
Magnetic skyrmions are localized topological excitations that behave as
particles and can be mobile, with great potential for novel data storage
devices. In this work, the current-induced dynamics of large skyrmion bubbles
is studied. When skyrmion motion in the direction opposite to the electron flow
is observed, this is usually interpreted as a perpendicular spin current
generated by the spin Hall effect exerting a torque on the chiral N\'{e}el
skyrmion. By designing samples in which the direction of the net generated spin
current can be carefully controlled, we surprisingly show that skyrmion motion
is always against the electron flow, irrespective of the net vertical
spin-current direction. We find that a negative bulk spin-transfer torque is
the most plausible explanation for the observed results, which is qualitatively
justified by a simple model that captures the essential behaviour. These
findings demonstrate that claims about the skyrmion chirality based on their
current-induced motion should be taken with great caution
Normal-Superfluid Interface Scattering For Polarized Fermion Gases
We argue that, for the recent experiments with imbalanced fermion gases, a
temperature difference may occur between the normal (N) and the gapped
superfluid (SF) phase. Using the mean-field formalism, we study particle
scattering off the N-SF interface from the deep BCS to the unitary regime. We
show that the thermal conductivity across the interface drops exponentially
fast with increasing , where is the chemical potential imbalance.
This implies a blocking of thermal equilibration between the N and the SF
phase. We also provide a possible mechanism for the creation of gap
oscillations (FFLO-like states) as seen in recent studies on these systems.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
Optimizing propagating spin wave spectroscopy
The frequency difference between two oppositely propagating spin waves can be
used to probe several interesting magnetic properties, such as the
Dzyaloshinkii-Moriya interaction (DMI). Propagating spin wave spectroscopy is a
technique that is very sensitive to this frequency difference. Here we show
several elements that are important to optimize devices for such a measurement.
We demonstrate that for wide magnetic strips there is a need for de-embedding.
Additionally, for these wide strips there is a large parasitic antenna-antenna
coupling that obfuscates any spin wave transmission signal, which is remedied
by moving to smaller strips. The conventional antenna design excites spin waves
with two different wave vectors. As the magnetic layers become thinner, the
resulting resonances move closer together and become very difficult to
disentangle. In the last part we therefore propose and verify a new antenna
design that excites spin waves with only one wave vector. We suggest to use
this antenna design to measure the DMI in thin magnetic layers.Comment: 12 pages, 4 figure
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