Role of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in multiferroic perovskites

With the perovskite multiferroic RMnO3 (R = Gd, Tb, Dy) as guidance, we argue that the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) provides the microscopic mechanism for the coexistence and strong coupling between ferroelectricity and incommensurate magnetism. We use Monte-Carlo simulations and zero temperature exact calculations to study a model incorporating the double-exchange, superexchange, Jahn-Teller and DMI terms. The phase diagram contains a multiferroic phase between A and E antiferromagnetic phases, in excellent agreement with experiments.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figure

Large non-adiabatic hole polarons and matrix element effects in the angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy of dielectric cuprates

It has been made an extention of the conventional theory based on the assumption of the well isolated Zhang-Rice singlet to be a first electron-removal state in dielectric copper oxide. One assumes the photohole has been localised on either small (pseudo)Jahn-Teller polaron or large non-adiabatic polaron enclosed one or four to five $CuO_4$ centers, respectively, with active one-center valent $(^{1}A_{1g}-{}^{1,3}E_{u})$ manifold. In the framework of the cluster model we have performed a model microscopic calculation of the ${\bf k}$-dependence of the matrix element effects and photon polarization effects for the angle-resolved photoemission in dielectric cuprate like $Sr_{2}CuO_{2}Cl_{2}$. We show that effects like the ''remnant Fermi surface'' detected in ARPES experiment for $Ca_{2}CuO_{2}Cl_{2}$ may be, in fact, a reflection of the matrix element effects, not a reflection of the original band-structure Fermi surface, or the strong antiferromagnetic correlations. The measured dispersion-like features in the low-energy part of the ARPES spectra may be a manifestation of the complex momentum-dependent spectral line-shape of the large PJT polaron response, not the dispersion of the well-isolated Zhang-Rice singlet in antiferromagnetic matrix.Comment: 16 pages, TeX, 9 eps figures adde

Superconductivity in model cuprate as an S=1 pseudomagnon condensation

We make use of the S=1 pseudospin formalism to describe the charge degree of freedom in a model high-$T_c$ cuprate with the on-site Hilbert space reduced to the three effective valence centers, nominally Cu$^{1+,\,2+,\,3+}$. Starting with a parent cuprate as an analogue of the quantum paramagnet ground state and using the Schwinger boson technique we found the pseudospin spectrum and conditions for the pseudomagnon condensation with phase transition to a superconducting state.Comment: Version to be published in JLT

Electron-conformational transformations in nanoscopic RyR channels govern both the heart's contraction and beating

We show that a simple biophysically based electron-conformational model of RyR channel is able to explain and describe on equal footing the oscillatory regime of the heart's cell release unit both in sinoatrial node (pacemaker) cells under normal physiological conditions and in ventricular myocytes under Ca$^{2+}$ SR overload.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figure

Complex Chiral Modulations in FeGe close to Magnetic Ordering

We report on detailed polarized small-angle neutron scattering on cubic FeGe in magnetic fields applied either along (transverse) the scattering vector or parallel (longitudinal)to the neutron beam. The ($H,T$) phase diagrams for all principal axes contain a segmented $A$-phase region just below the onset of magnetic order. Hexagonal Bragg-spot patterns were observed across the entire $A$-phase region for the longitudinal geometry. Scattering intensity was observed in parts of the A phase for both scattering configurations. Only in a distinct pocket ($A_1$) vanishing scattering intensity was found in the transverse geometry.Comment: This paper has been withdrawn by the author due to misunderstanding with some of the co-author

Unconventional phase transitions in strongly anisotropic 2D (pseudo)spin systems

We have applied a generalized mean-field approach and quantum Monte-Carlo technique for the model 2D S = 1 (pseudo)spin system to find the ground state phase with its evolution under application of the (pseudo)magnetic field. The comparison of the two methods allows us to clearly demonstrate the role of quantum effects. Special attention is given to the role played by an effective single-ion anisotropy (»on-site correlation»). © 2018 The Authors, published by EDP Sciences.The research was supported by the Government of the Russian Federation, Program 02.A03.21.0006 and by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, projects Nos. 2277 and 5719

Chiral criticality in doped Mn1−y_{1-y}Fey_ySi compounds

The critical spin fluctuations in doped compounds Mn$_{1-y}$Fe$_y$Si have been studied by means of ac-susceptibility measurements, polarized neutron small angle scattering and spin echo spectroscopy. It is shown that these compounds undergo the transition from the paramagnetic to helimagnetic phase through continuous, yet well distinguishable crossovers: (i) from paramagnetic to partially chiral, (ii) from partially chiral to highly chiral fluctuating state. The crossover points are identified on the basis of combined analysis of the temperature dependence of ac-susceptibility and polarized SANS data. The whole transition is marked by two inflection point of the temperature dependence of ac-susceptibility: the upper one corresponds to the crossover to partially chiral state at $T^*$, where the inverse correlation length $\kappa \approx 2 k$, the lower one corresponds to the transition to the spin helix structure. The intermediate crossover to the highly chiral phase is observed at the inflection point $T_k$ of the first derivative of ac-susceptibility, where $\kappa \approx k$. The temperature crossovers to the highly chiral fluctuating state is associated with the enhancing influence of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moria interaction close to $T_c$.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figures, 1 table, 13 cite