Frustration Regime Research Articles

Frustration and ordering in Ising chain in an external magnetic field with third-neighbor interactions

In this paper, the frustration properties of the Ising model on a one-dimensional monoatomic equidistant lattice in an external magnetic field are investigated, taking into account the exchange interactions of atomic spins at the sites of the first, second, and third neighbors. Exact analytical expressions for the thermodynamic functions of the system are obtained by the Kramers–Wannier transfer-matrix method. A magnetic phase diagram of the ground state of such a spin system is constructed and studied thoroughly. The points and lines of frustrations of the system depending on the values and signs of exchange interactions and on an external magnetic field are found. The criteria for the occurrence of magnetic frustrations in the presence of competition between the energies of exchange interactions and an external magnetic field are formulated. The peculiar features are investigated and the values of entropy and magnetization of the ground state of this model are obtained in the frustration regime and beyond it. Various types of behavior of entropy, magnetization, and magnetic susceptibility depending on the model parameters are revealed.

Frustration-induced highly anisotropic magnetic patterns in the classical XY model on the kagome lattice

We predict and observed novel highly anisotropic magnetic patterns obtained in the model of frustrated planar interacting magnetic moments (the classical $X-Y$ model) on the regular kagome lattice. The frustration is provided by the presence of both ferromagnetic and anti-ferromagnetic interactions between adjacent magnetic moments defined on the lattice nodes. At the critical value of the frustration $f=f_{cr}=3/4$ such a systems displays the phase transition from the ordered ferromagnetic state to the disordered frustration regime characterized by the highly-degenerated ground state. In the frustrated regime, $f_{cr}< f \leq 1$, unexpected scaling of spatially averaged magnetization $\langle \vec{M} \rangle $ on the total number of nodes,$N$, i.e. $\langle \vec{M} \rangle \simeq N^{-1/4}$, has been obtained. Such scaling is provided by highly anisotropic magnetic patterns displaying the ferromagnetic ordering along the $y$-direction, and short-range correlations of magnetic moments along the $x$-direction. We conjecture that all these intriguing features are explained by the presence of the double-degenerated ground state in the basic cell, i.e. single triangle, of the kagome lattice accompanying a large amount of intrinsic constraints. We anticipate the implementation of the phase transition and anisotropic magnetic patterns in various systems, e.g. natural magnetic molecular clusters, artificially prepared Josephson junctions networks, trapped-ions and/or photonic crystals.

Frustrations in the Ising chain with the third-neighbor interactions

We study the frustration properties of the Ising model on a one-dimensional monoatomic equidistant lattice, taking into account the exchange interactions of atomic spins at the sites of the nearest, next-nearest, and third neighbors. The exact analytical expressions for the thermodynamic functions of the system are obtained using the Kramers-Wannier transfer matrix technique. Criteria for the emergence of magnetic frustrations in the presence of competition between the energies of exchange interactions are formulated. The points and intervals of the existence of frustrations, which depend on the values and signs of the exchange interactions, are found. The features of the entropy and heat capacity of this model in the frustration regime and its vicinity are investigated. Non-zero entropy values of the ground state of a frustrated system, as well as a two-peak temperature structure of the heat capacity in the vicinity of the frustration point, are found.

Nonlinear stability of stationary solutions to the Kuramoto-Sakaguchi equation with frustration

<p style='text-indent:20px;'>We study measurable stationary solutions for the kinetic Kuramoto-Sakaguchi (in short K-S) equation with frustration and their stability analysis. In the presence of frustration, the total phase is not a conserved quantity anymore, but it is time-varying. Thus, we can not expect the genuinely stationary solutions for the K-S equation. To overcome this lack of conserved quantity, we introduce new variables whose total phase is conserved. In the transformed K-S equation in new variables, we derive all measurable stationary solution representing the incoherent state, complete and partial phase-locked states. We also provide several frameworks in which the complete phase-locked state is stable, whereas partial phase-locked state is semi-stable in the space of Radon measures. In particular, we show that the incoherent state is nonlinearly stable in a large frustration regime, whereas it can exhibit stable behavior or concentration phenomenon in a small frustration regime.

Frustration Properties of the 1D Ising Model

We analyze frustration properties of the Ising model for a 1D monatomic equidistant lattice in an external uniform magnetic field considering exchange interactions of atomic spins at the sites of the first (nearest) and second neighbors. Exact analytic expressions for thermodynamic and magnetic characteristics of the system, as well as for the Fourier transform of the pair spin–spin correlation function and magnetic diffused scattering wavevectors, were obtained by the method of the Kramers–Wannier transfer matrix considering the exchange interaction between spins at the nearest-neighbor sites in an external magnetic field, as well as the exchange interaction between spins at the second-neighbor sites in zero magnetic field. The criteria for the emergence of magnetic frustration in the presence of competition not only between exchange-interaction energies, but also between these energies and the external magnetic field energy are formulated. The frustration points and the values of frustration magnetic fields depending on the magnitudes and signs of the exchange interaction are determined. The distinguishing features of this model in the frustration regime and its vicinity are analyzed. The set of characteristic features inherent in observables for systems with magnetic frustrations is considered and analyzed. It is shown that the inclusion of competing exchange interactions at the first- and second-neighbor sites makes it possible to describe the behavior of the magnetic diffused scattering wavevector for commensurate, incommensurate, and lock-in structures.

Emergent Chiral Spin State in the Mott Phase of a Bosonic Kane-Mele-Hubbard Model.

Recently, the frustrated XY model for spins 1/2 on the honeycomb lattice has attracted a lot of attention in relation with the possibility to realize a chiral spin liquid state. This model is relevant to the physics of some quantum magnets. Using the flexibility of ultracold atom setups, we propose an alternative way to realize this model through the Mott regime of the bosonic Kane-Mele-Hubbard model. The phase diagram of this model is derived using bosonic dynamical mean-field theory. Focusing on the Mott phase, we investigate its magnetic properties as a function of frustration. We do find an emergent chiral spin state in the intermediate frustration regime. Using exact diagonalization we study more closely the physics of the effective frustrated XY model and the properties of the chiral spin state. This gapped phase displays a chiral order, breaking time-reversal and parity symmetry, but is not topologically ordered (the Chern number is zero).

Quantifying Nonnative Interactions in the Protein-Folding Free-Energy Landscape

Protein folding is a central problem in biological physics. Energetic roughness is an important aspect that controls protein-folding stability and kinetics. The roughness is associated with conflicting interactions in the protein and is also known as frustration. Recent studies indicate that an addition of a small amount of energetic frustration may enhance folding speed for certain proteins. In this study, we have investigated the conditions under which frustration increases the folding rate. We used a Cα structure-based model to simulate a group of proteins. We found that the free-energy barrier at the transition state (ΔF) correlates with nonnative-contact variation (ΔA), and the simulated proteins are clustered according to their fold motifs. These findings are corroborated by the Clementi-Plotkin analytical model. As a consequence, the optimum frustration regime for protein folding can be predicted analytically.

Spin frustration and magnetic ordering in triangular lattice antiferromagnet Ca3CoNb2O9**Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11374364 and 11222433), the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2011CBA00112). Research at McMaster University supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council. Work at North China Electric Power University supported by the Scientific Research Foundation

We synthesized a quasi-two-dimensional distorted triangular lattice antiferromagnet Ca3CoNb2O9, in which the effective spin of Co2+ is 1/2 at low temperatures, whose magnetic properties were studied by dc susceptibility and magnetization techniques. The x-ray diffraction confirms the quality of our powder samples. The large Weiss constant θCW∼ −55 K and the low Neel temperature TN∼ 1.45 K give a frustration factor f = | θCW/TN | ≈ 38, suggesting that Ca3CoNb2O9 resides in strong frustration regime. Slightly below TN, deviation between the susceptibility data under zero-field cooling (ZFC) and field cooling (FC) is observed. A new magnetic state with 1/3 of the saturate magnetization Ms is suggested in the magnetization curve at 0.46 K. Our study indicates that Ca3CoNb2O9 is an interesting material to investigate magnetism in triangular lattice antiferromagnets with weak anisotropy.

Quantum phases of the frustrated XY models on the honeycomb lattice

Searching for spin-liquid states has long been attracting both experimentalists and theorists. In this paper, we review recent density matrix renormalization group studies of the spin-½ XY model on the honeycomb lattice, with first-neighbor (J1 = 1) and frustrating second-neighbor (J2 &gt; 0) interactions. For the intermediate frustration regime 0.22 ≲ J2 ≲ 0.36, there exists a surprising antiferromagnetic Ising phase, with ordered moments pointing along the z-axis, despite the absence of any SzSz interactions in the Hamiltonian. Surrounding this phase as a function of J2 are antiferromagnetic phases with the moments pointing in the xy-plane for small J2 and a close competition between an xy-plane magnetic collinear phase and a dimer phase for large values of J2. No spin-liquid phases was found in the XY model even with the third-neighbor (J3 &gt; 0) interactions.

Interplay between spin-glass clusters and geometrical frustration.

The presence of spin-glass (SG) order in highly geometrically frustrated systems is analyzed in a cluster SG model. The model considers infinite-range disordered interactions among cluster magnetic moments and the J(1)-J(2) model couplings between Ising spins of the same cluster. This model can introduce two sources of frustration: one coming from the disordered interactions and another coming from the J(1)-J(2) intracluster interactions (intrinsic frustration). The framework of one-step replica symmetry breaking is adopted to obtain a one-cluster problem that is exactly solved. As a main result we create phase diagrams of the temperature T versus intensity of the disorder J, where the paramagnetic-SG phase transition occurs at T(f) when T decreases for high-J values. For low-J values, the SG order is absent for antiferromagnetic clusters without intrinsic frustration. However, the SG order can be observed within the intracluster intrinsic frustration regime even for lower intensity of disorder. In particular, the results indicate that the presence of small clusters in geometrically frustrated antiferromagnetic systems can help stabilize the SG order within a weak disorder.

Unexpectedz-Direction Ising Antiferromagnetic Order in a Frustrated Spin-1/2J1−J2XYModel on the Honeycomb Lattice

Using the density matrix renormalization group on wide cylinders, we study the phase diagram of the spin-1/2 XY model on the honeycomb lattice, with first-neighbor (J1=1) and frustrating second-neighbor (J2>0) interactions. For the intermediate frustration regime 0.22≲J2≲0.36, we find a surprising antiferromagnetic Ising phase, with ordered moments pointing along the z axis, despite the absence of any S(z)S(z) interactions in the Hamiltonian. Surrounding this phase as a function of J2 are antiferromagnetic phases with the moments pointing in the x-y plane for small J2 and a close competition between an x-y plane magnetic collinear phase and a dimer phase for large values of J2. We do not find any spin-liquid phases in this model.

Phase-locking and frustration in an array of nonlinear spin-torque nano-oscillators

We demonstrate that the cooperative dynamics of an array of coupled spin-torque nano-oscillators (STNO) can be controlled by introduction of an additional external phase shift βc between microwave current, which couples STNOs, and microwave voltage on the array. When this external phase shift βc compensates the intrinsic phase shift β0, caused by the STNO nonlinearity, a phase-locking regime with increased output power and vanishing inhomogeneous linewidth broadening is achieved. In the opposite case, when external and intrinsic phase shifts are added, the STNO array demonstrates a frustration regime with low output power and wide and noisy frequency spectrum.

Plaquette ground state of the Shastry-Sutherland model: Density-matrix renormalization-group calculations

I use the two-step density-matrix renormalization-group (DMRG) method based on two-leg ladder expansion to show numerical evidence of a plaquette ground state for ${J}_{2}=1.3{J}_{1}$ in the Shastry-Sutherland model. I argue that the DMRG method is very efficient in the strong frustration regime of two-dimensional spin models where a spin-Peierls ground state is expected to occur. It is thus complementary to quantum Monte Carlo algorithms, which are known to work well in the small frustration regime but which are plagued by the sign problem in the strong frustration regime.

Spin-gap phase of a quantum spin system on a honeycomb lattice

We study a quantum spin system on a honeycomb lattice, when it includes frustration and distortion in antiferromagnetic (AF) exchange interactions. We transform the spin system onto a nonlinear $\ensuremath{\sigma}$ model (NLSM), preserving the original spin degrees of freedom. Assisted by a renormalization-group argument, the NLSM provides a ground-state phase diagram consisting of an ordered AF phase and a disordered spin-gap phase. The spin-gap phase extends from a strong frustration regime to a strong distortion regime, showing that the disordered ground states are essentially the same in both regimes. In the spin-1/2 case, the spin-gap phase for spin system on a honeycomb lattice is larger than that for the ${J}_{1}\text{\ensuremath{-}}{J}_{2}$ model on a square lattice.

Ising phase in theJ1−J2Heisenberg model

The two dimensional Heisenberg antiferromagnet on the square lattice with nearest (J1) and next-nearest (J2) neighbor couplings is investigated in the strong frustration regime (J2/J1>1/2). A new effective field theory describing the long wavelength physics of the model is derived from the quantum hamiltonian. The structure of the resulting non linear sigma model allows to recover the known spin wave results in the collinear regime, supports the presence of an Ising phase transition at finite temperature and suggests the possible occurrence of a non-magnetic ground state breaking rotational symmetry. By means of Lanczos diagonalizations we investigate the spin system at T=0, focusing our attention on the region where the collinear order parameter is strongly suppressed by quantum fluctuations and a transition to a non-magnetic state occurs. Correlation functions display a remarkable size independence and allow to identify the transition between the magnetic and non-magnetic region of the phase diagram. The numerical results support the presence of a non-magnetic phase with orientational ordering.

Real-space renormalization group with effective interactions

The real-space renormalization group for the study of periodic systems goes through the reduction of the Hilbert space to products of lowest eigenstates of identical blocks. Instead of working with the Hamiltonian, it is possible to estimate effective interactions between blocks from the spectrum of dimers or trimers of blocks, according to the effective Hamiltonian theory of Bloch. Tests on a series of spin problems [cohesive energy of the one-dimensional (1D) chain and of the 2D square lattice, excitation energies of the dimerized 1D spin chain, and behavior of the frustrated chain in the low frustration regime] show the potentiality of the method.

Frustrated total internal reflection of laser eigenstates

The role of frustrated total internal reflection in the dynamics of laser eigenstates is investigated theoretically and experimentally. We first derive the Jones matrix of a frustrating element for a realistic Gaussian beam in a single-pass geometry. We point out the existence of three different angular regimes, namely, a pure frustration regime, an intermediate regime, and a quasi-Fabry–Perot regime. We then explore in each case the nature and the competition between the laser polarization eigenstates. A novel spiraling behavior of the laser parameters is demonstrated when the frustrating gap is varied, along with puzzling polarization-flipping effects, that may modify strongly the conditions that optimize the laser-output power. Experimental results agree with a theoretical model.

Power-law resistive behavior and KT transition of a weakly-frustrated 2D Josephson-junction array

Current-voltage ( I– V) characteristics and magnetoresistance are calculated for a frustrated 2D Josephson-junction array in weak frustration( f) regime via finite-temperature dynamic simulations. There are two co-existing non-linear power-laws, V ∝ I α and V ∝ f ß , in which the universal jump of Kosterlitz-Thouless transition appears in the temperature dependence of both exponents, at α ≅ 3 and at ß ≅ 2. Numerical and experimental results are in accord in high z. sbnd; T c oxides under magnetic fields.