49 research outputs found
Laser-Induced Skyrmion Writing and Erasing in an Ultrafast Cryo-Lorentz Transmission Electron Microscopy
We demonstrate that light-induced heat pulses of different duration and
energy can write skyrmions in a broad range of temperatures and magnetic field
in FeGe. Using a combination of camera-rate and pump-probe cryo-Lorentz
Transmission Electron Microscopy, we directly resolve the spatio-temporal
evolution of the magnetization ensuing optical excitation. The skyrmion lattice
was found to maintain its structural properties during the laser-induced
demagnetization, and its recovery to the initial state happened in the
sub-{\mu}s to {\mu}s range, depending on the cooling rate of the system
Imaging Oxygen Defects and their Motion at a Manganite Surface
Manganites are technologically important materials, used widely as solid
oxide fuel cell cathodes: they have also been shown to exhibit
electroresistance. Oxygen bulk diffusion and surface exchange processes are
critical for catalytic action, and numerous studies of manganites have linked
electroresistance to electrochemical oxygen migration. Direct imaging of
individual oxygen defects is needed to underpin understanding of these
important processes. It is not currently possible to collect the required
images in the bulk, but scanning tunnelling microscopy could provide such data
for surfaces. Here we show the first atomic resolution images of oxygen defects
at a manganite surface. Our experiments also reveal defect dynamics, including
oxygen adatom migration, vacancy-adatom recombination and adatom bistability.
Beyond providing an experimental basis for testing models describing the
microscopics of oxygen migration at transition metal oxide interfaces, our work
resolves the long-standing puzzle of why scanning tunnelling microscopy is more
challenging for layered manganites than for cuprates.Comment: 7 figure
Exact diagonalization study of the Hubbard-parametrized four-spin ring exchange model on a square lattice
We have used exact numerical diagonalization to study the excitation spectrum
and the dynamic spin correlations in the next-next-nearest neighbor
Heisenberg antiferromagnet on the square lattice, with additional 4-spin ring
exchange from higher order terms in the Hubbard expansion. We have varied the
ratio between Hubbard model parameters, , to obtain different relative
strengths of the exchange parameters, while keeping electrons localized. The
Hubbard model parameters have been parametrized via an effective ring exchange
coupling, , which have been varied between 0 and 1.5. We find that
ring exchange induces a quantum phase transition from the ordered
Ne\`el state to a ordered state. This quantum critical point
is reduced by quantum fluctuations from its mean field value of to
a value of . At the quantum critical point, the dynamical correlation
function shows a pseudo-continuum at -values between the two competing
ordering vectors
Further analysis of the quantum critical point of CeLaRuSi
New data on the spin dynamics and the magnetic order of
CeLaRuSi are presented. The importance of the Kondo
effect at the quantum critical point of this system is emphasized from the
behaviour of the relaxation rate at high temperature and from the variation of
the ordered moment with respect to the one of the N\'eel temperature for
various .Comment: Contribution for the Festschrift on the occasion of Hilbert von
Loehneysen 60 th birthday. To be published as a special issue in the Journal
of Low Temperature Physic
Field-Induced Quantum Soliton Lattice in a Frustrated Two-Leg Spin-1/2 Ladder
Based on high-field 31P nuclear magnetic resonance experiments and accompanying numerical calculations, it is argued that in the frustrated S=1/2 ladder compound BiCu2PO6 a field-induced soliton lattice develops above a critical field of μ0Hc1=20.96(7) T. Solitons result from the fractionalization of the S=1, bosonlike triplet excitations, which in other quantum antiferromagnets are commonly known to experience Bose-Einstein condensation or to crystallize in a superstructure. Unlike in spin-Peierls systems, these field-induced quantum domain walls do not arise from a state with broken translational symmetry and are triggered exclusively by magnetic frustration. Our model predicts yet another second-order phase transition at Hc2>Hc1, driven by soliton-soliton interactions, most likely corresponding to the one observed in recent magnetocaloric and other bulk measurements
Quantum bits with Josephson junctions
Already in the first edition of this book (Barone and Paterno, "Fundamentals
and Physics and Applications of the Josephson Effect", Wiley 1982), a great
number of interesting and important applications for Josephson junctions were
discussed. In the decades that have passed since then, several new applications
have emerged. This chapter treats one such new class of applications: quantum
optics and quantum information processing (QIP) based on superconducting
circuits with Josephson junctions. In this chapter, we aim to explain the
basics of superconducting quantum circuits with Josephson junctions and
demonstrate how these systems open up new prospects, both for QIP and for the
study of quantum optics and atomic physics.Comment: 30 pages, 10 figures. Book chapter for a new edition of Barone and
Paterno's "Fundamentals and Physics and Applications of the Josephson
Effect". Final versio
The surface layer of cleaved bilayer manganites
Recently, several informative reports have been published on spectroscopy experiments performed on cleaved surfaces of the bilayered colossal magnetoresistive manganite La2-2xSr1+2xMn2O7 (Konoto et al 2004 Phys. Rev. Lett. 93 107201, Freeland et al 2005 Nat. Mater. 4 62, Mannella et al 2005 Nature 438 474, Ronnow et al 2006 Nature 440 1025). For the detailed interpretation of these results, it is of importance to know exactly which layer within the crystal structure is exposed to the surface upon cleavage. Here we combine crystal structure arguments, scanning tunnelling microscopy and x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy measurements to demonstrate that the crystals cleave between the rare-earth rock-salt oxide layers, leaving one outermost rare-earth oxide layer before the first electronically active MnO bilayer
Correlations and fluctuations in the 2D Heisenberg antiferromagnet
The correlations and fluctuations in Cu(DCOO)(2). 4D(2)O, which is a good physical realization of the 2D S = 1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnet on a square lattice, have been measured by neutron scattering measurements. The quantum fluctuations cause a non-uniform. renormalization of the spin-wave dispersion with a zone boundary dispersion of 7%, while the spin wave amplitude is reduced to 51 +/- 4% of its classical value. The temperature dependence of the correlation length, the spin-wave damping and the spin-wave softening agrees with theoretical predictions over a large temperature range