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Damped Topological Magnons in the Kagom\'{e}-Lattice Ferromagnets
We demonstrate that interactions can substantially undermine the
free-particle description of magnons in ferromagnets on geometrically
frustrated lattices. The anharmonic coupling, facilitated by the
Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction, and a highly-degenerate two-magnon continuum
yield a strong, non-perturbative damping of the high-energy magnon modes. We
provide a detailed account of the effect for the ferromagnet on the
kagom\'e lattice and propose further experiments.Comment: 4.5 p + 4 figs main, 8 p + 16 figs supplemental, typos correcte
Topography of Spin Liquids on a Triangular Lattice
Spin systems with frustrated anisotropic interactions are of significant
interest due to possible exotic ground states. We have explored their phase
diagram on a nearest-neighbor triangular lattice using the density-matrix
renormalization group and mapped out the topography of the region that can
harbor a spin liquid. We find that this spin-liquid phase is continuously
connected to a previously discovered spin-liquid phase of the isotropic
model. The two limits show nearly identical spin correlations,
making the case that their respective spin liquids are isomorphic to each
other.Comment: Accepted to PRL; 5 p., 11+ p. supplemental; main text is longer than
the accepted versio
Disorder-Induced Mimicry of a Spin Liquid in YbMgGaO
We suggest that a randomization of the pseudo-dipolar interaction in the
spin-orbit-generated low-energy Hamiltonian of YbMgGaO due to an
inhomogeneous charge environment from a natural mixing of Mg and
Ga can give rise to orientational spin disorder and mimic a
spin-liquid-like state. In the absence of such quenched disorder, and
density matrix renormalization group calculations both show robust ordered
states for the physically relevant phases of the model. Our scenario is
consistent with the available experimental data and further experiments are
proposed to support it.Comment: 5+ main text, 7+ supplemental, text asymptotically close to PR
Critical temperature and giant isotope effect in presence of paramagnons
We reconsider the long-standing problem of the effect of spin fluctuations on
the critical temperature and isotope effect in a phonon-mediated
superconductor. Although the general physics of the interplay between phonons
and paramagnons had been rather well understood, the existing approximate
formulas fail to describe the correct behavior of for general phonon
and paramagnon spectra. Using a controllable approximation, we derive an
analytical formula for which agrees well with exact numerical solutions
of the Eliashberg equations for a broad range of parameters. Based on both
numerical and analytical results, we predict a strong enhancement of the
isotope effect when the frequencies of spin fluctuation and phonons are of the
same order. This effect may have important consequences for near-magnetic
superconductors such as MgCNiComment: 5 pages, 2 figure
Ab initio calculations of the physical properties of transition metal carbides and nitrides and possible routes to high-Tc
Ab initio linear-response calculations are reported of the phonon spectra and
the electron-phonon interaction for several transition metal carbides and
nitrides in a NaCl-type structure. For NbC, the kinetic, optical, and
superconducting properties are calculated in detail at various pressures and
the normal-pressure results are found to well agree with the experiment.
Factors accounting for the relatively low critical temperatures Tc in
transition metal compounds with light elements are considered and the possible
ways of increasing Tc are discussed.Comment: 19 pages, 7 figure
Signatures of Quantum Chaos and fermionization in the incoherent transport of bosonic carriers in the Bose-Hubbard chain
We analyse the stationary current of Bose particles across the Bose-Hubbard
chain connected to a battery, focusing on the effect of inter-particle
interactions. It is shown that the current magnitude drastically decreases as
the strength of inter-particle interactions exceeds the critical value which
marks the transition to quantum chaos in the Bose-Hubbard Hamiltonian. We found
that this transition is well reflected in the non-equilibrium many-body density
matrix of the system. Namely, the level-spacing distribution for eigenvalues of
the density matrix changes from Poisson to Wigner-Dyson distributions. With the
further increase of the interaction strength, the Wigner-Dyson spectrum
statistics changes back to the Poisson statistics which now marks
fermionization of the bosonic particles. With respect to the stationary
current, this leads to the counter-intuitive dependence of the current
magnitude on the particle number.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figure
Conjugate heat transfer in a closed volume with the local heat sources and non-uniform heat dissipation on the boundaries of heat conducting walls
Is solved the problem of heat transfer in the closed volume, limited by heat-conducting walls, with the local source of heat emission and the heterogeneous conditions of heat sink on the outer boundaries of solution area. The problem of convective heat transfer is solved with using a system of differential Navier-Stokes equations in the Boussinesq approximation. The simulation of turbulent flow conditions of heated air is carried out within the framework to k-ε model. On the basis the analysis of the obtained temperature field and the contour lines of stream functions is made conclusion about the essential transiency of the process in question. The obtained values of temperatures and speeds in different sections of region illustrate turbulence of the process. Are investigated laws governing the formation of temperature fields in closed areas with a local heat emission source under the conditions of intensive local heat sink into environment and accumulation of heat in the enclosing constructions
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