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The Antiferromagnetic Sawtooth Lattice - the study of a two spin variant
Generalising recent studies on the sawtooth lattice, a two-spin variant of
the model is considered. Numerical studies of the energy spectra and the
relevant spin correlations in the problem are presented. Perturbation theory
analysis of the model explaining some of the features of the numerical data is
put forward and the spin wave spectra of the model corresponding to different
phases are investigated.Comment: Latex, 37 pages including 14 figures; M. S. project report, Indian
Institute of Science (March, 2003); this is one of the references of
cond-mat/030749
Gapless points of dimerized quantum spin chains: analytical and numerical studies
We study the locations of the gapless points which occur for quantum spin
chains of finite length (with a twisted boundary condition) at particular
values of the nearest neighbor dimerization, as a function of the spin S and
the number of sites. For strong dimerization and large values of S, a tunneling
calculation reproduces the same results as those obtained from more involved
field theoretic methods using the non-linear sigma-model approach. A different
analytical calculation of the matrix element between the two Neel states gives
a set of gapless points; for strong dimerization, these differ significantly
from the tunneling values. Finally, the exact diagonalization method for a
finite number of sites yields a set of gapless points which are in good
agreement with the Neel state calculations for all values of the dimerization,
but the agreement with the tunneling values is not very good even for large S.
This raises questions about possible corrections to the tunneling results.Comment: Revtex4, 10 pages including 5 figure
Frustrated spin ladder with alternating spin-1 and spin-1/2 rungs
We study the impact of the diagonal frustrating couplings on the quantum
phase diagram of a two-leg ladder composed of alternating spin-1 and spin-1/2
rungs. As the coupling strength is increased the system successively exhibits
two gapped paramagnetic phases (a rung-singlet and a Haldane-like
non-degenerate states) and two ferrimagnetic phases with different
ferromagnetic moments per rung. The first two states are similar to the phases
studied in the frustrated spin-1/2 ladder, whereas the magnetic phases appear
as a result of the mixed-spin structure of the model. A detailed
characterization of these phases is presented using density-matrix
renormalization-group calculations, exact diagonalizations of periodic
clusters, and an effective Hamiltonian approach inspired by the analysis of
numerical data. The present theoretical study was motivated by the recent
synthesis of the quasi-one-dimensional ferrimagnetic material
FeFe (trans-1,4-cyclohexanedicarboxylate) exhibiting a similar
ladder structure.Comment: 10 pages, 8 figure
p6 - Chiral Resonating Valence Bonds in the Kagome Antiferromagnet
The Kagome Heisenberg antiferromagnet is mapped onto an effective Hamiltonian
on the star superlattice by Contractor Renormalization. Comparison of ground
state energies on large lattices to Density Matrix Renormalization Group
justifies truncation of effective interactions at range 3. Within our accuracy,
magnetic and translational symmetries are not broken (i.e. a spin liquid ground
state). However, we discover doublet spectral degeneracies which signal the
onset of p6 - chirality symmetry breaking. This is understood by simple mean
field analysis. Experimentally, the p6 chiral order parameter should split the
optical phonons degeneracy near the zone center. Addition of weak next to
nearest neighbor coupling is discussed.Comment: 7 pages, 5 figures including supplementary materia
Magnetic properties of a helical spin chain with alternating isotropic and anisotropic spins: magnetization plateaus and finite entropy
We study a model which could explain some of the unusual magnetic properties
observed for the one-dimensional helical spin system Co(hfac)_2 NITPhOMe. One
of the properties observed is that the magnetization shows plateaus near zero
and near one-third of the saturation value if a magnetic field is applied along
the helical axis, but not if the field is applied in the plane perpendicular to
that axis. The system consists of a spin-1/2 chain in which cobalt ions (which
are highly anisotropic with an easy axis e_i) and organic radicals (which are
isotropic) alternate with each other. The easy axis of the cobalts e_i lie at
an angle theta_i with respect to the helical axis, while the projection of
e_{i+1} - e_i on the plane perpendicular to the helical axis is given by 2 pi
/3. For temperatures and magnetic fields which are much smaller than the
coupling between the nearest-neighbor cobalts and radicals, one can integrate
out the radicals to obtain an Ising model for the cobalts; this enables one to
compute the thermodynamic properties of the system using the transfer matrix
approach. We consider a model in which the tilt angles theta_i are allowed to
vary with i with period three; we find that for certain patterns of theta_i,
the system shows the magnetization plateaus mentioned above. At the ends of the
plateaus, the entropy is finite even at very low temperatures, while the
magnetic susceptibility and specific heat also show some interesting features.Comment: Revtex, 7 pages including 7 figure
Magnon bands in pyrochlore slabs with Heisenberg exchange and anisotropies
We study magnon bands in the slab geometry for the spin model on the
pyrochlore lattice with Heisenberg exchange, Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction
and spin-ice anisotropy. For a range of model parameters, for both
ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic exchange, we evaluate spin wave bands for
slabs oriented perpendicular to the , and directions. We
analyze magnon dispersions for the ferromagnetic splay phase, the
all-in-all-out phase and a coplanar phase. For all the phases considered,
depending on the slab geometry the magnon band structure can be non-reciprocal
and we locate regions of non-reciprocity in the surface Brillouin zones. We
provide details of the edge localized magnons in these phases associated with
point degeneracies and different nodal lines in the bulk spectra.Comment: A few small changes in text. Minor typos and errors corrected,
references updated. No change in result
Investigational synthetic neuroactive steroid zuranolone in treatment of major depressive disorder with peripartum onset
Major depressive disorder with peripartum onset or peripartum depression is a common condition experienced by a large proportion of women and to some extent even in men. The current treatment strategies involve the use of conventional pharmacotherapeutic classes of drugs like selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs), tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs) and psychotherapy methods in the management of this condition. In this article, we try to review and evaluate the pathophysiology of the condition along with the safety and efficacy of the novel investigational therapeutic drug zuranolone, which is a synthetic neuroactive steroid (NAS) that has shown promise in clinical trials for the management of conditions like major depressive disorder, peripartum depression and bipolar disorder. The synthetic NAS zuranolone is an orally bioavailable positive allosteric modulator of the gamma amino butyric acid (GABAA) receptor, which can regulate the action of the GABAergic pathway implicated in many depressive episodes and also affect the normal functioning of the hypothalmo pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis which is the core pathophysiological cause behind major depressive disorder with peripartum onset
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