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Complete transfer of populations from a single state to a pre-selected superposition of states using Piecewise Adiabatic Passage
We develop a method for executing robust and selective transfer of
populations between a single level and pre-selected superpositions of energy
eigenstates. Viewed in the frequency domain, our method amounts to executing a
series of simultaneous adiabatic passages into each component of the target
superposition state. Viewed in {the} time domain, the method works by
accumulating the wavefunction of the target wave packet as it revisits the
Franck Condon region, in what amounts to an extension of the Piecewise
Adiabatic Passage technique [ Shapiro et.al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 033002
(2007)] to the multi-state regime. The viability of the method is verified by
performing numerical tests for the Na_2 molecule.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figure
Shape-dependent Depinning of a Domain Wall by a Magnetic Field and a Spin-Polarized Current
The effect of sample shape on the depinning of the domain wall (DW) driven by
an applied magnetic field or a spin-polarized current is studied theoretically.
The shape effect resulting from the modulation of the sample width (geometric
pinning) can essentially affect the DW depinning. We found a good agreement
between the ratios of the critical values of the magnetic field and the
spin-polarized current predicted by the theory and measured in the experiment.Comment: 9 pages, 5 figure
How particle collisions increase the rate of accretion from the cosmological background onto primordial black holes in braneworld cosmology
It is shown that, contrary to the widespread opinion, particle collisions
considerably increase accretion rate from the cosmological background onto 5D
primordial black holes formed during the high-energy phase of the
Randall-Sundrum Type II braneworld scenario. Increase of accretion rate leads
to much tighter constraints on initial primordial black hole mass fraction
imposed by the critical density limit and measurements of high-energy diffuse
photon background and antiproton excess.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure
Multiferroicity in the generic easy-plane triangular lattice antiferromagnet RbFe(MoO4)2
RbFe(MoO4)2 is a quasi-two-dimensional (quasi-2D) triangular lattice
antiferromagnet (TLA) that displays a zero-field magnetically-driven
multiferroic phase with a chiral spin structure. By inelastic neutron
scattering, we determine quantitatively the spin Hamiltonian. We show that the
easy-plane anisotropy is nearly 1/3 of the dominant spin exchange, making
RbFe(MoO4)2 an excellent system for studying the physics of the model 2D
easy-plane TLA. Our measurements demonstrate magnetic-field induced
fluctuations in this material to stabilize the generic finite-field phases of
the 2D XY TLA. We further explain how Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions can
generate ferroelectricity only in the zero field phase. Our conclusion is that
multiferroicity in RbFe(MoO4)2, and its absence at high fields, results from
the generic properties of the 2D XY TLA.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figures, accepted in PRB as a Rapid Communicatio
The effects of disorder in dimerized quantum magnets in mean field approximations
We study theoretically the effects of disorder on Bose-Einstein condensates
(BEC) of bosonic triplon quasiparticles in doped dimerized quantum magnets. The
condensation occurs in a strong enough magnetic field Hc, where the
concentration of bosons in the random potential is sufficient to form the
condensate. The effect of doping is partly modeled by delta - correlated
disorder potential, which (i) leads to the uniform renormalization of the
system parameters and (ii) produces disorder in the system with renormalized
parameters. These approaches can explain qualitatively the available
magnetization data in the Tl_(1-x)K_(x)CuCl_3 compound taken as an example. In
addition to the magnetization, we found that the speed of the Bogoliubov mode
has a peak as a function of doping parameter, x. No evidence of the pure Bose
glass phase has been obtained in the BEC regime.Comment: Includes 19 pages, 5 figure
Direct transition from a disordered to a multiferroic phase on a triangular lattice
Competing interactions and geometric frustration provide favourable
conditions for exotic states of matter. Such competition often causes multiple
phase transitions as a function of temperature and can lead to magnetic
structures that break inversion symmetry, thereby inducing ferroelectricity
[1-4]. Although this phenomenon is understood phenomenologically [3-4], it is
of great interest to have a conceptually simpler system in which
ferroelectricity appears coincident with a single magnetic phase transition.
Here we report the first such direct transition from a paramagnetic and
paraelectric phase to an incommensurate multiferroic in the triangular lattice
antiferromagnet RbFe(MoO4)2 (RFMO). A magnetic field extinguishes the electric
polarization when the symmetry of the magnetic order changes and
ferroelectricity is only observed when the magnetic structure has chirality and
breaks inversion symmetry. Multiferroic behaviour in RFMO provides a
theoretically tractable example of ferroelectricity from competing spin
interactions. A Landau expansion of symmetry-allowed terms in the free energy
demonstrates that the chiral magnetic order of the triangular lattice
antiferromagnet gives rise to a pseudoelectric field, whose temperature
dependence agrees with that observed experimentally.Comment: 16 pages pdf including 3 figure
Triplet spin resonance of the Haldane compound with interchain coupling
Spin resonance absorption of the triplet excitations is studied
experimentally in the Haldane magnet PbNi2V2O8. The spectrum has features of
spin S=1 resonance in a crystal field, with all three components, corresponding
to transitions between spin sublevels, being observable. The resonance field is
temperature dependent, indicating the renormalization of excitation spectrum in
interaction between the triplets. Magnetic resonance frequencies and critical
fields of the magnetization curve are consistent with a boson version of the
macroscopic field theory [Affleck 1992, Farutin & Marchenko 2007], implying the
field induced ordering at the critical field, while contradict the previously
used approach of noninteracting spin chains.Comment: 7 pages, 9 figure
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