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Magnetic phase diagram of a quasi-one-dimensional quantum spin system
We propose an analytical ansatz, using which the ordering temperature of a
quasi-one-dimensional (quasi-1D) antiferromagnetic (AF) system (weakly coupled
quantum spin-1/2 chains) in the presence of the external magnetic field is
calculated. The field dependence of the critical exponents for correlation
functions of 1D subsystems plays a very important role. It determines the
region of possible re-entrant phase transition, governed by the field. It is
shown how the quantum critical point between two phases of the 1D subsystem,
caused by spin-frustrating next-nearest neighbor (NNN) and multi-spin ring-like
exchanges, affects the field dependence of the ordering temperature. Our
results qualitatively agree with the features, observed in experiments on
quasi-1D AF systems
Possibility of direct observation of edge Majorana modes in quantum chains
Several scenarios for realization of edge Majorana modes in quantum chain
systems: spin chains, chains of Josephson junctions, and chains of coupled
cavities in quantum optics, are considered. For all these systems excitations
can be presented as superpositions of a spinless fermion and a hole,
characteristic for Majorana fermion. We discuss the features of our exact
solution with respect to possible experiments, in which edge Majorana fermions
can be directly observed when studying magnetic, superconducting, and optical
characteristics of such systems.Comment: 8 pages (including supplemental information), 7 figure
New physics in frustrated magnets: Spin ices, monopoles, etc
During recent years the interest to frustrated magnets has grown
considerably. Such systems reveal very peculiar properties which distinguish
them from standard paramagnets, magnetically ordered regular systems (like
ferro-, ferri-, and antiferromagnets), or spin glasses. In particular great
amount of attention has been devoted to the so-called spin ices, in which
magnetic frustration together with the large value of the single-ion magnetic
anisotropy of a special kind, yield peculiar behavior. One of the most exciting
features of spin ices is related to low-energy emergent excitations, which,
from many viewpoints can be considered as analogies of Dirac's monopoles. In
this article we review the main achievements of theory and experiment in this
field of physics.Comment: review article, 70 pages, 27 figures, accepted for publication in
"Low Temperature Physics" ("Fizika Nizkikh Temperatur"
Spin-orbit and impurity scattering in an integrable electron model: Exact results for dynamic correlations
We introduce an integrable model of spin-polarized interacting electrons
subject to a spin-conserving spin-orbit interaction. Using Bethe Ansatz and
conformal field theory we calculate the exact large-time single-electron and
density correlations and find that while the spin-orbit interaction enhances
the single-electron Green's function, the density correlations get suppressed.
Adding a localized impurity and coupling it to the electrons so that
integrability is preserved, the dynamic correlations are found to change
significantly after a quantum quench with the impurity interaction switched on
suddenly. When the electrons are confined to a periodic structure, the
correlations are indifferent to the location of the impurity and only carry an
imprint of its intrinsic properties. We conjecture that this unusual feature
originates from the integrability of the model.Comment: 8 pages, 1 figur
Excitation hierarchy of the quantum sine-Gordon spin chain in strong magnetic field
The magnetic excitation spectrum of copper pyrimidine dinitrate, a material
containing S=1/2 antiferromagnetic chains with alternating g-tensor and the
Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction, and exhibiting a field-induced spin gap, is
probed using submillimeter wave electron spin resonance spectroscopy. Ten
excitation modes are resolved in the low-temperature spectrum, and their
frequency-field diagram is systematically studied in magnetic fields up to 25
T. The experimental data are sufficiently detailed to make a very accurate
comparison with predictions based on the quantum sine-Gordon field theory.
Signatures of three breather branches and a soliton, as well as those of
several multi-particle excitation modes are identified.Comment: 4 RevTeX pages, 3 figure
Addendum to ``Multichannel Kondo screening in a one-dimensional correlated electron system''
This is an addendum to our previous work cond-mat/9705048 (published in
Europhysics Letters 41, 213 (1998)), clarifying the construction of the
two-particle scattering matrices used for studying the magnetic impurity
behavior in a multichannel correlated host.Comment: Addendum to cond-mat/9705048 (Europhys. Lett. 41, 213 (1998)
Magnetic excitations in the spin-1 anisotropic antiferromagnet
The spin-1 anisotropic antiferromagnet NiCl_2-4SC(NH2)_2 exhibits a
field-induced quantum phase transition that is formally analogous to
Bose-Einstein condensation. Here we present results of systematic high-field
electron spin resonance (ESR) experimental and theoretical studies of this
compound with a special emphasis on single-ion two-magnon bound states. In
order to clarify some remaining discrepancies between theory and experiment,
the frequency-field dependence of magnetic excitations in this material is
reanalyzed. In particular, a more comprehensive interpretation of the
experimental signature of single-ion two-magnon bound states is shown to be
fully consistent with theoretical results. We also clarify the structure of the
ESR spectrum in the so-called intermediate phase.Comment: 9 pages, 10 figure
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