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Three-sublattice Skyrmion crystal in the antiferromagnetic triangular lattice
The frustrated classical antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model with
Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interactions on the triangular lattice is studied
under a magnetic field by means of semiclassical calculations and large-scale
Monte Carlo simulations. We show that even a small DM interaction induces the
formation of an Antiferromagnetic Skyrmion crystal (AF-SkX) state. Unlike what
is observed in ferromagnetic materials, we show that the AF-SkX state consists
of three interpenetrating Skyrmion crystals (one by sublattice), and most
importantly, the AF-SkX state seems to survive in the limit of zero
temperature. To characterize the phase diagram we compute the average of the
topological order parameter which can be associated to the number of
topological charges or Skyrmions. As the magnetic field increases this
parameter presents a clear jump, indicating a discontinuous transition from a
spiral phase into the AF-SkX phase, where multiple Bragg peaks coexist in the
spin structure factor. For higher fields, a second (probably continuous)
transition occurs into a featureless paramagnetic phase.Comment: 8 pages, 8 figure
Field induced multiple order-by-disorder state selection in antiferromagnetic honeycomb bilayer lattice
In this paper we present a detailed study of the antiferromagnetic classical
Heisenberg model on a bilayer honeycomb lattice in a highly frustrated regime
in presence of a magnetic field. This study shows strong evidence of entropic
order-by-disorder selection in different sectors of the magnetization curve.
For antiferromagnetic couplings , we find that at low
temperatures there are two different regions in the magnetization curve
selected by this mechanism with different number of soft and zero modes. These
regions present broken symmetry and are separated by a not fully
collinear classical plateau at . At higher temperatures, there is a
crossover from the conventional paramagnet to a cooperative magnet. Finally, we
also discuss the low temperature behavior of the system for a less frustrated
region, .Comment: revised version - accepted for publication in Physical Review B - 12
pages, 11 figure
Metastable and scaling regimes of a one-dimensional Kawasaki dynamics
We investigate the large-time scaling regimes arising from a variety of
metastable structures in a chain of Ising spins with both first- and
second-neighbor couplings while subject to a Kawasaki dynamics. Depending on
the ratio and sign of these former, different dynamic exponents are suggested
by finite-size scaling analyses of relaxation times. At low but
nonzero-temperatures these are calculated via exact diagonalizations of the
evolution operator in finite chains under several activation barriers. In the
absence of metastability the dynamics is always diffusive.Comment: 18 pages, 8 figures. Brief additions. To appear in Phys. Rev.
Magnetization plateaux and jumps in a frustrated four-leg spin tube under a magnetic field
We study the ground state phase diagram of a frustrated spin-1/2 four-leg
spin tube in an external magnetic field. We explore the parameter space of this
model in the regime of all-antiferromagnetic exchange couplings by means of
three different approaches: analysis of low-energy effective Hamiltonian (LEH),
a Hartree variational approach (HVA) and density matrix renormalization group
(DMRG) for finite clusters. We find that in the limit of weakly interacting
plaquettes, low-energy singlet, triplet and quintuplet states play an important
role in the formation of fractional magnetization plateaux. We study the
transition regions numerically and analytically, and find that they are
described, at first order in a strong- coupling expansion, by an XXZ spin-1/2
chain in a magnetic field; the second-order terms give corrections to the XXZ
model. All techniques provide consistent results which allow us to predict the
existence of fractional plateaux in an important region in the space of
parameters of the model.Comment: 10 pages, 7 figures. Accepted for publication in Physical Review
Topological phase transition driven by magnetic field and topological Hall effect in an antiferromagnetic skyrmion lattice
The topological Hall effect (THE), given by a composite of electric and
topologically non-trivial spin texture is commonly observed in magnetic
skyrmion crystals. Here we present a study of the THE of electrons coupled to
antiferromagnetic Skyrmion lattices (AF-SkX). We show that, in the strong Hund
coupling limit, topologically non-trivial phases emerge at specific fillings.
Interestingly, at low filling an external field controlling the magnetic
texture, drives the system from a conventional insulator phase to a phase
exhibiting THE. Such behavior suggests the occurrence of a topological
transition which is confirmed by a closing of the bulk-gap that is followed by
its reopening, appearing simultaneously with a single pair of helical edge
states. This transition is further verified by the calculation of the the Chern
numbers and Berry curvature. We also compute a variety of observables in order
to quantify the THE, namely: Hall conductivity and the orbital magnetization of
electrons moving in the AF-SkX texture.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figure
Chiral phase transition and thermal Hall effect in an anisotropic spin model on the kagome lattice
We present a study of the thermal Hall effect in the extended Heisenberg
model with anisotropy in the kagome lattice. This model has the
particularity that, in the classical case, and for a broad region in parameter
space, an external magnetic field induces a chiral symmetry breaking: the
ground state is a doubly degenerate order with either positive or
negative net chirality. Here, we focus on the effect of this chiral phase
transition in the thermal Hall conductivity using Linear-Spin-Waves theory. We
explore the topology and calculate the Chern numbers of the magnonic bands,
obtaining a variety of topological phase transitions. We also compute the
magnonic effect to the critical temperature associated with the chiral phase
transition (). Our main result is that, the thermal Hall
conductivity, which is null for , becomes non-zero as a consequence
of the spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking at low temperatures. Therefore, we
present a simple model where it is possible to "switch" on/off the thermal
transport properties introducing a magnetic field and heating or cooling the
system.Comment: 9 pages, 6 figures, Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev.
On Doppler tracking in cosmological spacetimes
We give a rigorous derivation of the general-relativistic formula for the
two-way Doppler tracking of a spacecraft in Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker
and in McVittie spacetimes. The leading order corrections of the so-determined
acceleration to the Newtonian acceleration are due to special-relativistic
effects and cosmological expansion. The latter, although linear in the Hubble
constant, is negligible in typical applications within the Solar System.Comment: 10 pages, 1 figure. Journal versio
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