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Magneto-elastic interaction in cubic helimagnets with B20 structure
The magneto-elastic interaction in cubic helimagnets with B20 symmetry is
considered. It is shown that this interaction is responsible for negative
contribution to the square of the spin-wave gap which is alone has to
disrupt assumed helical structure. It is suggested that competition between
positive part of which stems from magnon-magnon interaction and
its negative magneto-elastic part leads to the quantum phase transition
observed at high pressure in and . This transition has to occur
when . For from rough estimations at ambient pressure both
parts and are comparable with the experimentally
observed gap. The magneto-elastic interaction is responsible also for 2\m k
modulation of the lattice where \m k is the helix wave-vector and
contribution to the magnetic anisotropy.
Experimental observation by -ray and neutron scattering the lattice
modulation allows determine the strength of anisotropic part of the
magneto-elastic interaction responsible for above phenomena and the lattice
helicity
Coupled quantum wires
We study a set of crossed 1D systems, which are coupled with each other via
tunnelling at the crossings. We begin with the simplest case with no
electron-electron interactions and find that besides the expected level
splitting, bound states can emerge. Next, we include an external potential and
electron-electron interactions, which are treated within the Hartree
approximation. Then, we write down a formal general solution to the problem,
giving additional details for the case of a symmetric external potential.
Concentrating on the case of a single crossing, we were able to explain recent
experinents on crossed metallic and semiconducting nanotubes [J. W. Janssen, S.
G. Lemay, L. P. Kouwenhoven, and C. Dekker, Phys. Rev. B 65, 115423 (2002)],
which showed the presence of localized states in the region of crossing.Comment: 11 pages, 10 figure
Ferroelectrically induced weak-ferromagnetism in a single-phase multiferroic by design
We present a strategy to design structures for which a polar lattice
distortion induces weak ferromagnetism. We identify a large class of
multiferroic oxides as potential realizations and use density-functional theory
to screen several promising candidates. By elucidating the interplay between
the polarization and the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya vector, we show how the
direction of the magnetization can be switched between 180 symmetry
equivalent states with an applied electric field.Comment: Significantly revised for clarit
Why and when the Minkowski's stress tensor can be used in the problem of Casimir force acting on bodies embedded in media
It is shown that the criticism by Raabe and Welsch of the
Dzyaloshinskii-Lifshitz-Pitaevskii theory of the van der Waals-Casimir forces
inside a medium is based on misunderstandings. It is explained why and at which
conditions one can use the ''Minkowski-like '' stress tensor for calculations
of the forces. The reason, why approach of Raabe and Welsch is incorrect, is
discussed.Comment: Comment, 2 pages. 2 misprints were correcte
Transport magnetic currents driven by moving kink crystal in chiral helimagnets
We show that the bulk transport magnetic current is generated by the moving
magnetic kink crystal (chiral soliton lattice) formed in the chiral helimagnet
under the static magnetic field applied perpendicular to the helical axis. The
current is caused by the non-equilibrium transport momentum with the kink mass
being determined by the spin fluctuations around the kink crystal state. An
emergence of the transport magnetic currents is then a consequence of the
dynamical off-diagonal long range order along the helical axis. We derive an
explicit formula for the inertial mass of the kink crystal and the current in
the weak field limit.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev.
Electromagnon excitations in modulated multiferroics
The phenomenological theory of ferroelectricity in spiral magnets presented
in [M. Mostovoy, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 067601 (2006)] is generalized to describe
consistently states with both uniform and modulated-in-space ferroelectric
polarizations. A key point in this description is the symmetric part of the
magnetoelectric coupling since, although being irrelevant for the uniform
component, it plays an essential role for the non-uniform part of the
polarization. We illustrate this importance in generic examples of modulated
magnetic systems: longitudinal and transverse spin-density wave states and
planar cycloidal phase. We show that even in the cases with no uniform
ferroelectricity induced, polarization correlation functions follow to the soft
magnetic behavior of the system due to the magnetoelectric effect. Our results
can be easily generalized for more complicated types of magnetic ordering, and
the applications may concern various natural and artificial systems in
condensed matter physics (e.g., magnon properties could be extracted from
dynamic dielectric response measurements).Comment: 5 page
The two-loop functional renormalization-group approach to the one- and two-dimensional Hubbard model
We consider the application of the two-loop functional renormalization-group
(fRG) approach to study the low-dimensional Hubbard model. This approach
accounts for both, the universal and non-universal contributions to the RG
flow. While the universal contributions were studied previously within the
field-theoretical RG for the one-dimensional Hubbard model with linearized
electronic dispersion and the two-dimensional Hubbard model with flat Fermi
surface, the non-universal contributions appear to be important for the flow of
the vertices and susceptibilities at large momenta scales. The two-loop fRG
approach is also applied to the two-dimensional Hubbard model with a curved
Fermi surface and the van Hove singularities near the Fermi level. The vertices
and susceptibilities in the end of the flow of the two-loop approch are
suppressed in comparison with both the one-loop approach with vertex projection
and the modified one-loop approach with corrected vertex projection errors. The
results of the two-loop approach are closer to the results of one-loop approach
with the projected vertices, the difference of the results of one- and two-loop
fRG approaches decreases when going away from the van Hove band filling. The
quasiparticle weight remains finite in two dimensions at not too low
temperatures above the paramagnetic ground state
The Casimir zero-point radiation pressure
We analyze some consequences of the Casimir-type zero-point radiation
pressure. These include macroscopic "vacuum" forces on a metallic layer
in-between a dielectric medium and an inert () one. Ways
to control the sign of these forces, based on dielectric properties of the
media, are thus suggested. Finally, the large positive Casimir pressure, due to
surface plasmons on thin metallic layers, is evaluated and discussed.Comment: 4 2-column pages, LATE
Dynamical magnetoelectric effects in multiferroic oxides
Multiferroics with coexistent ferroelectric and magnetic orders can provide
an interesting laboratory to test unprecedented magnetoelectric responses and
their possible applications. One such example is the dynamical and/or resonant
coupling between magnetic and electric dipoles in a solid. As the examples of
such dynamical magnetoelectric effects, (1) the multiferroic domain wall
dynamics and (2) the electric-dipole active magnetic responses are discussed
with the overview of recent experimental observations.Comment: 15 pages including 6 figures; Accepted for publication in Phil.
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