Antiferromagnetic Regime Research Articles

Evolution from a charge-ordered insulator to a high-temperature superconductor in Bi2Sr2(Ca,Dy)Cu2O8+δ

How Cooper pairs form and condense has been the main challenge in the physics of copper-oxide high-temperature superconductors. Great efforts have been made in the ‘underdoped’ region of the phase diagram, through doping a Mott insulator or cooling a strange metal. However, there is still no consensus on how superconductivity emerges when electron-electron correlations dominate and the Fermi surface is missing. To address this issue, here we carry out high-resolution resonant inelastic X-ray scattering and scanning tunneling microscopy studies on prototype cuprates Bi2Sr2Ca0.6Dy0.4Cu2O8+δ near the onset of superconductivity, combining bulk and surface, momentum- and real-space information. We show that an incipient charge order exists in the antiferromagnetic regime down to 0.04 holes per CuO2 unit, entangled with a particle-hole asymmetric pseudogap. The charge order induces an intensity anomaly in the bond-buckling phonon branch, which exhibits an abrupt increase once the system enters the superconducting dome. Our results suggest that the Cooper pairs grow out of a charge-ordered insulating state, and then condense accompanied by an enhanced interplay between charge excitations and electron-phonon coupling.

Kitaev-Heisenberg model on the star lattice: From chiral Majorana fermions to chiral triplons

The interplay of frustrated interactions and lattice geometry can lead to a variety of exotic quantum phases. Here we unearth a particularly rich phase diagram of the Kitaev-Heisenberg model on the star lattice, a triangle decorated honeycomb lattice breaking sublattice symmetry. In the antiferromagnetic regime, the interplay of Heisenberg coupling and geometric frustration leads to the formation of valence bond solid (VBS) phases—a singlet VBS and a bond selective triplet VBS stabilized by the Kitaev exchange. We show that the ratio of the Kitaev versus Heisenberg exchange tunes between these VBS phases and chiral quantum spin-liquid regimes. Remarkably, the VBS phases host a whole variety of chiral triplon excitations with high Chern numbers in the presence of a weak magnetic field. We discuss our results in light of a recently synthesized star lattice material and other decorated lattice systems. Published by the American Physical Society 2024

Thermal form-factor expansion of the dynamical two-point functions of local operators in integrable quantum chains

Evaluating a lattice path integral in terms of spectral data and matrix elements pertaining to a suitably defined quantum transfer matrix, we derive form-factor series expansions for the dynamical two-point functions of arbitrary local operators in fundamental Yang–Baxter integrable lattice models at finite temperature. The summands in the series are parameterised by solutions of the Bethe Ansatz equations associated with the eigenvalue problem of the quantum transfer matrix. We elaborate on the example of the XXZ chain for which the solutions of the Bethe Ansatz equations are sufficiently well understood in certain limiting cases. We work out in detail the case of the spin-zero operators in the antiferromagnetic massive regime at zero temperature. In this case the thermal form-factor series turn into series of multiple integrals with fully explicit integrands. These integrands factorize into an operator-dependent part, determined by the so-called Fermionic basis, and a part which we call the universal weight as it is the same for all spin-zero operators. The universal weight can be inferred from our previous work. The operator-dependent part is rather simple for the most interesting short-range operators. It is determined by two functions ρ and ω for which we obtain explicit expressions in the considered case. As an application we rederive the known explicit form-factor series for the two-point function of the magnetization operator and obtain analogous expressions for the magnetic current and the energy operators.

The efficiency of fractional channels in the Heisenberg XYZ model

A fractional quantum state has created between two-qubit system by a Heisenberg XYZ model in the presence of the Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya (DM) interaction. The impact of the initial state settings and the interaction parameters on the amount of the quantum correlation is discussed. We used the concurrence and local quantum uncertainty to quantify these correlations. It is shown that, both quantifiers increase suddenly/gradually depending on the order of the fractional state, and whether the system is ferromagnetic or anti-ferromagnetic. The fractional parameter may increase/ stabilized the memory of the generated fractional state. Small values of the DM interaction can maximize the initial quantum correlation of a partial entangled state. The possibility of using these fractional time-dependent states as quantum channels to perform quantum teleportation has examined. It is shown that, preparing the system in anti-ferromagnetic regime improves the fidelity of the teleported state. The strength of the DM interaction and the fractional’s order has a clear effect on the fidelity’s behavior, where they may be used as control parameters to increase the efficiency of the fractional quantum channel in the context of quantum communication.

Mean-field treatment of the long-range transverse field Ising model with fermionic Gaussian states

We numerically study the one-dimensional long-range transverse field Ising model (TFIM) in the antiferromagnetic (AFM) regime at zero temperature using generalized Hartree-Fock (GHF) theory. The spin-spin interaction extends to all spins in the lattice and decays as $1/{r}^{\ensuremath{\alpha}}$, where $r$ denotes the distance between two spins and $\ensuremath{\alpha}$ is a tunable exponent. We map the spin operators to Majorana operators and approximate the ground state of the Hamiltonian with a fermionic Gaussian state (FGS). Using this approximation, we calculate the ground-state energy and the entanglement entropy, which allows us to map the phase diagram for different values of $\ensuremath{\alpha}$. In addition, we compute the scaling behavior of the entanglement entropy with the system size to determine the central charge at criticality for the case of $\ensuremath{\alpha}>1$. For $\ensuremath{\alpha}<1$ we find a logarithmic divergence of the entanglement entropy even far away from the critical point, a feature of systems with long-range interactions. We provide a detailed comparison of our results to outcomes of density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) and the linked cluster expansion (LCE) methods. In particular, we find excellent agreement of GHF with DMRG and LCE in the weak long-range regime $\ensuremath{\alpha}\ensuremath{\ge}1$, and qualitative agreement with DMRG in the strong-long range regime $\ensuremath{\alpha}\ensuremath{\le}1$. Our results highlight the power of the computationally efficient GHF method in simulating interacting quantum systems.

Elementary excitations in an integrable twisted J1−J2 spin chain in the thermodynamic limit

The exact elementary excitations in a typical $U(1)$ symmetry broken quantum integrable system, that is the twisted ${J}_{1}\ensuremath{-}{J}_{2}$ spin chain with nearest-neighbor, next nearest neighbor, and chiral three spin interactions, are studied. The main technique is that we quantify the energy spectrum of the system by the zero roots of the transfer matrix instead of the traditional Bethe roots. From the numerical calculation and singularity analysis, we obtain the patterns of zero roots. Based on them, we analytically obtain the ground state energy and the elementary excitations in the thermodynamic limit. We find that the system also exhibits the nearly degenerate states in the regime of $\ensuremath{\eta}\ensuremath{\in}\mathbb{R}$, where the nearest-neighbor couplings among the $z$ direction are ferromagnetic. More careful study shows that the competing of interactions can induce the gapless low-lying excitations and quantum phase transition in the antiferromagnetic regime with $\ensuremath{\eta}\ensuremath{\in}\mathbb{R}+i\ensuremath{\pi}$.

Antiferromagnetic Ising model with frustration on Graphenylene lattice

Frustration effects due to competition between nearest-neighbor and next-nearest-neighbor spins interaction on the graphenylene lattice, also known as biphenylene carbon lattice, were investigated by Monte Carlo simulations. We identified two possible phases from our results of the entropy at zero temperature, namely an ordered spin glass and other an antiferromagnetic phase. Despite the complexity of the lattice, a finite size scaling analysis for the antiferromagnetic regime shows that it can be classified into the same universality class of the usual Ising model. The canonical probability distribution as a function of the spin glass order parameter was computed and the continuous spin glass phase transition confirmed.

Spinon confinement in the gapped antiferromagnetic XXZ spin- 12 chain

The infinite Heisenberg XXZ spin-(1/2) chain in the gapped antiferromagnetic regime has two degenerate vacua and kink topological excitations (which are also called spinons) interpolating between these vacua as elementary excitations. Application of an arbitrary weak staggered longitudinal magnetic field h induces a long-range attractive potential between two adjacent spinons leading to their confinement into 'meson' bound states. Exploiting the integrability of the XXZ model in the deconfined phase h = 0, we perform perturbative calculations of the energy spectra of the two-spinon bound states in the weak confinement regime at h \to +0, using the strength of the staggered magnetic field h as a small parameter. Both transverse and longitudinal dynamical structure factors of the local spin operators are calculated as well in the two-spinon approximation in the weak confinement regime to the leading order in h.

Excitations and ergodicity of critical quantum spin chains from non-equilibrium classical dynamics

We study a quantum spin-1/2 chain that is dual to the canonical problem of non-equilibrium Kawasaki dynamics of a classical Ising chain coupled to a thermal bath. The Hamiltonian is obtained for the general disordered case with non-uniform Ising couplings. The quantum spin chain (dubbed Ising-Kawasaki) is stoquastic, and depends on the Ising couplings normalized by the bath's temperature. We give its exact ground states. Proceeding with uniform couplings, we study the one- and two-magnon excitations. Solutions for the latter are derived via a Bethe Ansatz scheme. In the antiferromagnetic regime, the two-magnon branch states show intricate behavior, especially regarding their hybridization with the continuum. We find that that the gapless chain hosts multiple dynamics at low energy as seen through the presence of multiple dynamical critical exponents. Finally, we analyze the full energy level spacing distribution as a function of the Ising coupling. We conclude that the system is non-integrable for generic parameters, or equivalently, that the corresponding non-equilibrium classical dynamics are ergodic.

Strong-Magnetic-Field Magnon Transport in Monolayer Graphene

At high magnetic fields, monolayer graphene hosts competing phases distinguished by their breaking of the approximate SU(4) isospin symmetry. Recent experiments have observed an even denominator fractional quantum Hall state thought to be associated with a transition in the underlying isospin order from a spin-singlet charge density wave at low magnetic fields to an antiferromagnet at high magnetic fields, implying that a similar transition must occur at charge neutrality. However, this transition does not generate contrast in typical electrical transport or thermodynamic measurements and no direct evidence for it has been reported, despite theoretical interest arising from its potentially unconventional nature. Here, we measure the transmission of ferromagnetic magnons through the two-dimensional bulk of clean monolayer graphene. Using spin polarized fractional quantum Hall states as a benchmark, we find that magnon transmission is controlled by the detailed properties of the low-momentum spin waves in the intervening Hall fluid, which is highly density dependent. Remarkably, as the system is driven into the antiferromagnetic regime, robust magnon transmission is restored across a wide range of filling factors consistent with Pauli blocking of fractional quantum Hall spin-wave excitations and their replacement by conventional ferromagnetic magnons confined to the minority graphene sublattice. Finally, using devices in which spin waves are launched directly into the insulating charge-neutral bulk, we directly detect the hidden phase transition between bulk insulating charge density wave and a canted antiferromagnetic phase at charge neutrality, completing the experimental map of broken-symmetry phases in monolayer graphene.3 MoreReceived 6 February 2021Revised 22 February 2022Accepted 28 April 2022DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.12.021060Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article’s title, journal citation, and DOI.Published by the American Physical SocietyPhysics Subject Headings (PhySH)Research AreasFractional quantum Hall effectSpintronicsPhysical SystemsGrapheneCondensed Matter, Materials & Applied Physics

Spin conductivity of the XXZ chain in the antiferromagnetic massive regime

We present a series representation for the dynamical two-point function of the local spin current for the XXZ chain in the antiferromagnetic massive regime at zero temperature. From this series we can compute the correlation function with very high accuracy up to very long times and large distances. Each term in the series corresponds to the contribution of all scattering states of an even number of excitations. These excitations can be interpreted in terms of an equal number of particles and holes. The lowest term in the series comprises all scattering states of one hole and one particle. This term determines the long-time large-distance asymptotic behaviour which can be obtained explicitly from a saddle-point analysis. The space-time Fourier transform of the two-point function of currents at zero momentum gives the optical spin conductivity of the model. We obtain highly accurate numerical estimates for this quantity by numerically Fourier transforming our data. For the one-particle, one-hole contribution, equivalently interpreted as a two-spinon contribution, we obtain an exact and explicit expression in terms of known special functions. For large enough anisotropy, the two-spinon contribution carries most of the spectral weight, as can be seen by calculating the f-sum rule.

Phase transition for the Ising model with mixed spins on a Cayley tree

In the present paper, we consider the Ising model with mixed spin- (1, 1/2) on the second order Cayley tree. For this model, a construction of splitting Gibbs measures is given that allows us to establish the existence of the phase transition (non-uniqueness of Gibbs measures). We point out that, in the phase transition region, the considered model exhibits three translation-invariant Gibbs measures in the ferromagnetic and anti-ferromagnetic regimes, respectively, while the classical Ising model does not possess such Gibbs measures in the anti-ferromagnetic setting. It turns out, that like the classical Ising model, we can find a disordered Gibbs measure, therefore, its non-extremity and extremity are investigated by means of tree-indexed Markov chains.

Interplay of itinerant magnetism and spin-glass behavior inFexCr1−x

When suppressing the itinerant antiferromagnetism in chromium by doping with the isostructual itinerant ferromagnet iron, a dome of spin-glass behavior emerges around a putative quantum critical point at an iron concentration $x \approx 0.15$. Here, we report a comprehensive investigation of polycrystalline samples of Fe$_{x}$Cr$_{1-x}$ in the range $0.05 \leq x \leq 0.30$ using x-ray powder diffraction, magnetization, ac susceptibility, and neutron depolarization measurements, complemented by specific heat and electrical resistivity data for $x = 0.15$. Besides antiferromagnetic ($x < 0.15$) and ferromagnetic regimes ($0.15 \leq x$), we identify a dome of reentrant spin-glass behavior at low temperatures for $0.10 \leq x \leq 0.25$ that is preceded by a precursor phenomenon. Neutron depolarization indicates an increase of the size of ferromagnetic clusters with increasing $x$ and the Mydosh parameter $\phi$, inferred from the ac susceptibility, implies a crossover from cluster-glass to superparamagnetic behavior. Taken together, these findings consistently identify Fe$_{x}$Cr$_{1-x}$ as an itinerant-electron system that permits to study the evolution of spin-glass behavior of gradually varying character in unchanged crystalline environment.

Separation of Kondo lattice coherence from crystal electric field in CeIn3 with Nd substitutions

The ${\mathrm{Ce}}_{m}{\mathrm{M}}_{n}{\mathrm{In}}_{3m+2n}$ $(m=1,2;n=0,1)$ family has been one of the most studied families of heavy fermion compounds. This family has revealed many interesting low-temperature physics phenomena, like quantum critical points, heavy fermion superconductivity, and non-Fermi liquid behavior, when these materials are exposed to pressure, magnetic fields, and/or chemical substitution. Here we provide a thorough investigation of the ${\mathrm{Ce}}_{1\ensuremath{-}x}{\mathrm{Nd}}_{x}{\mathrm{In}}_{3}$ phase diagram through single crystal synthesis, x-ray diffraction, energy-dispersive spectroscopy, magnetic susceptibility, and electrical resistivity measurements. Previous electrical resistivity measurements on ${\mathrm{CeIn}}_{3}$ reveal a broad maximum, ${T}_{\text{max}}\ensuremath{\sim}50$ K, which has been associated with the Kondo lattice coherence crossover and/or the crystal electric field depopulation effect as the $4f$ electrons condense from the high-energy quartet down to the ground state doublet. Our findings show that in the most disordered substitution region, $x=0.4--0.5$, these features disjoin to reveal two distinct broad humps in electrical resistivity measurements. Magnetic susceptibility and electrical resistivity data on ${\mathrm{Ce}}_{1\ensuremath{-}x}{\mathrm{Nd}}_{x}{\mathrm{In}}_{3}$ also reveal the antiferromagnetic ordering competition between ${\mathrm{CeIn}}_{3}$ and ${\mathrm{NdIn}}_{3}$, where the ${T}_{\text{N}}$ of ${\mathrm{CeIn}}_{3}$ is linearly suppressed to a critical concentration of ${x}_{\text{Nd}}\ensuremath{\sim}\phantom{\rule{0.16em}{0ex}}0.6$. This concentration is slightly lower than what was previously reported in nonmagnetically substituted ${\mathrm{Ce}}_{1\ensuremath{-}x}{\mathrm{La}}_{x}{\mathrm{In}}_{3}$. Our magnetic susceptibility measurements and subsequent simulations show that in the ${\mathrm{CeIn}}_{3}$ antiferromagnetic regime, ${x}_{\text{Nd}}\ensuremath{\le}\phantom{\rule{0.16em}{0ex}}0.4$, the Nd ions act as free paramagnets. The large magnitude of the associated paramagnetic response then masks the overlapping antiferromagnetic ordering signature of the Ce ions. Overall our study further sheds light on the underlying crystal electric field and Kondo lattice coherence interactions within the ${\mathrm{Ce}}_{m}{\mathrm{M}}_{n}{\mathrm{In}}_{3m+2n}$ family and could stimulate further studies of these systems via neutron diffraction or under applied pressure.

Gate-tunable magnetoresistance in six-septuple-layer MnBi2Te4

The recently discovered antiferromagnetic topological insulator MnBi2Te4 hosts many exotic topological quantum phases such as the axion insulator and the Chern insulator. Here we report on systematic gate-voltage-dependent magneto-transport studies in six-septuple-layer MnBi2Te4. In the p-type carrier regime, we observe positive linear magnetoresistance (MR) when MnBi2Te4 is polarized in the ferromagnetic state by an out-of-plane magnetic field. Whereas in the n-type regime, distinct negative MR behaviors are observed. The behaviors of magnetoresistance in both regimes are highly robust against temperature up to the Néel temperature. Within the antiferromagnetic regime, the behavior of MR exhibits a transition from negative to positive under the control of gate voltage. The boundaries of the MR phase diagram can be explicitly marked by the gate-voltage-independent magnetic fields that characterize the processes of the spin-flop transition. The rich transport phenomena demonstrate the intricate interplay between topology, magnetism and dimensionality in MnBi2Te4.

Dressed energy of the XXZ chain in the complex plane

We consider the dressed energy varepsilon of the XXZ chain in the massless antiferromagnetic parameter regime at 0< Delta < 1 and at finite magnetic field. This function is defined as a solution of a Fredholm integral equation of the second kind. Conceived as a real function over the real numbers, it describes the energy of particle–hole excitations over the ground state at fixed magnetic field. The extension of the dressed energy to the complex plane determines the solutions to the Bethe Ansatz equations for the eigenvalue problem of the quantum transfer matrix of the model in the low-temperature limit. At low temperatures, the Bethe roots that parametrize the dominant eigenvalue of the quantum transfer matrix come close to the curve mathrm{Re}, varepsilon (lambda ) = 0. We describe this curve and give lower bounds to the function mathrm{Re}, varepsilon in regions of the complex plane, where it is positive.

A thermal form factor series for the longitudinal two-point function of the Heisenberg–Ising chain in the antiferromagnetic massive regime

We consider the longitudinal dynamical two-point function of the XXZ quantum spin chain in the antiferromagnetic massive regime. It has a series representation based on the form factors of the quantum transfer matrix of the model. The nth summand of the series is a multiple integral accounting for all n-particle–n-hole excitations of the quantum transfer matrix. In previous works, the expressions for the form factor amplitudes appearing under the integrals were either again represented as multiple integrals or in terms of Fredholm determinants. Here, we obtain a representation which reduces, in the zero-temperature limit, essentially to a product of two determinants of finite matrices whose entries are known special functions. This will facilitate the further analysis of the correlation function.

Spin-Wave Dynamics in Antiferromagnets under Electric Current

Electric current causes a Doppler effect in spin waves in ferromagnets through a spin-transfer torque. We report that antiferromagnets allow two such spin-transfer torques and present a microscopic analysis that interpolates ferro- and antiferromagnetic transport regimes.

Strong magnetic coupling between antiferromagnetic and ferromagnetic phases in polycrystalline hollow nanoparticles composed of spinel solid solution

Exchange bias is an interfacial phenomenon that is used to increase the magnetic anisotropy in order to surpass the superparamagnetic limit. Exchange bias has been effectively manipulated through variation of local arrangement of ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic nanocrystals in an unusual morphology and for very specific compositions. For this purpose, polycrystalline hollow nanoparticles with spinel structure composed of Co3-δFeδO4 (with δ > 0) and Co1+γFe2-γO4 (γ > 0) crystallites, were prepared using = CoFe metal nanoparticles as precursors. These particles were oxidized to obtain the desired mixed-oxide nanoparticles with various compositions using the well-known Kirkendall effect. Spinel nanoparticles were composed of an antiferromagnetic phase, which was predominantly Co3-δFeδO4, and a ferromagnetic phase, Co1+γFe2-γO4. The antiferromagnetic phase showed a relative increase in its concentration with the increase in Co content. The magnetic response includes high field thermoremanent magnetization in antiferromagnetic phase, ferromagnetic crystal size, increased anisotropy due to antiferromagnetic and surface spin glass phases, etc. Antiferromagnetic phase has been demonstrated to be robust in comparison with the surface spin glass phase to generate exchange bias. Finally, a phase diagram of the magnetic phases as a function of Co concentration is constructed to identify ferromagnetic, antiferromagnetic and spin glass regimes in this system.

Structure, magnetism and electrical transport in La1-x-yPryCaxMnO3 (y = 0.30, 0.35, 0.40; x = 0.40): Consequences of the interplay between intrinsic ionic radius and extrinsic particle size

The structural, microstructural, magnetic and electrical transport properties have been correlatively studied to decipher the complex consequences of variation of intrinsic parameter ,the average La-site cationic radii and extrinsic particle size on the magneto-electrical phase coexistence in La1-x-yPryCaxMnO3 (y = 0.30, 0.35, 0.40; x = 0.40). Polycrystalline powders prepared by sol-gel route were sintered at 600 °C, 900 °C, 1100 °C, and 1300 °C to facilitate particle size variation. Rietveld refinement of the powder X-ray diffraction data confirms that all samples have an orthorhombic structure with Pnma space group. The lattice constants decrease with decreasing ionic radii, while at a fixed ionic radius, the enhanced particle size increases them. The average apical Mn−O−Mn bond angles and the average Mn−O bond lengths decrease with rising ionic radii but increase with particle size at a fixed composition. Magnetization measurements show sequential paramagnetic (PM)-antiferromagnetic (AFM)-ferromagnetic (FM) transitions on lowering the temperature is lowered. The AFM-FM transition exhibits (i) pronounced hysteresis between field-cooled cooling (FCC) and field-cooled warming (FCW) (ii) strong divergence between zero-field cooling (ZFC) and FCW curves. The low-temperature magnetic state transforms from spin glass-like to a cluster glass-like as the ionic radii or the particle size decreases. These behaviors are caused by the mesoscale modifications in the magnetic phase profile where the AFM and FM phases due to the interplay between the average La-site cationic radii and the particle size. In general, the FM component increases with an increase in the particle size, but it decreases at lower ionic radii. The presence of a large thermal hysteresis in the insulator-metal transition (IMT) coupled with the one in FCC-FCW magnetization at particle sizes ~200 nm–160 nm, and ~460-400 nm demonstrates that this particle size regime is the most conducive to the phase separation. IMT disappears at smaller ionic radii and larger particle sizes due to the enhancement of AFM and charge-ordering. The PM and AFM regimes in all samples reveal variable range hopping conduction with particle size and ionic radii dependent activation. The observed phenomena have been explained in terms of the interplay between the ionic radii and particle size induced changes in the average apical Mn−O−Mn bond angles and the average Mn−O bond length.