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Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Chuan Chen, Inti Sodemann Villadiego
Summary: The Kitaev honeycomb model exhibits a fascinating fractionalized state of matter with emergent Majorana fermions and vison particles that carry emergent gauge field flux. In this solvable model, the visons are static but certain perturbations can induce their motion. We demonstrate that the motion of visons induced by a Zeeman field is distinctly different in the ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic Kitaev models. Specifically, in the ferromagnetic model, the vison has a trivial nonprojective translational symmetry, while in the antiferromagnetic model, it has a projective translational symmetry with n-flux per unit cell. The ferromagnetic case has a vison band with zero Berry curvature and no intrinsic contribution to the thermal Hall effect. In contrast, the antiferromagnetic case has two gapped vison bands with opposite Chern numbers and an associated intrinsic vison contribution to the thermal Hall effect. We discuss these findings in relation to the spin liquid candidate alpha-RuCl3.
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Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
H. Lane, E. Pachoud, J. A. Rodriguez-Rivera, M. Songvilay, G. Xu, P. M. Gehring, J. P. Attfield, R. A. Ewings, C. Stock
Summary: VI3 is a ferromagnet with planar honeycomb sheets of bonded V3+ ions held together by van der Waals forces. Neutron spectroscopy is applied to measure two-dimensional magnetic excitations in the ferromagnetic phase. The study reveals the mechanism of magnetic anisotropy in VI3, providing insights into its spatially long-ranged two-dimensional ferromagnetism.
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Physics, Condensed Matter
Gavin Hester, T. N. DeLazzer, S. S. Lim, C. M. Brown, K. A. Ross
Summary: C-Er2Si2O7, a rare-earth pyrosilicate compound, exhibits a distorted honeycomb lattice structure with antiferromagnetic ordering at 2.3 K. Neutron diffraction measurements confirm the magnetic properties of this compound.
JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER
(2021)
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Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Sri Sai Phani Kanth Arekapudi, Benny Boehm, Lakshmi Ramasubramanian, Fabian Ganss, Peter Heinig, Sven Stienen, Ciaran Fowley, Kilian Lenz, Alina M. Deac, Manfred Albrecht, Olav Hellwig
Summary: This study systematically investigates the magnetic vortex structures in soft-magnetic NiFe and exchange coupled NiFe/IrMn and IrMn/NiFe/IrMn disk structures. It finds that the stability of the intermediate V-AV state is significantly enhanced in exchange coupled structures, with an increase in effective vortex core radius and distortion of FM vortex structure. The displacement of the vortex core in exchange coupled disks depends on the magnitude of exchange bias field and AFM grain characteristics.
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Crystallography
Judith K. Clark, Chongin Pak, Huibo Cao, Michael Shatruk
Summary: MnBi2Se4 is a linear-chain antiferromagnet with dominant intrachain antiferromagnetic interactions, leading to spin frustration and antiferromagnetic ordering at 15 K due to interchain coupling. The antiferromagnetic ordered state exhibits an incommensurate helimagnetic structure with perpendicular Mn moments arranged in the chain propagation direction and a helix turn angle of 128 degrees. The magnetic properties of MnBi2Se4 are discussed in comparison to other linear-chain antiferromagnets based on ternary mixed-metal halides and chalcogenides.
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Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Jun Zhang, Xinyu Zhang, Yuanhua Xia, Jianfa Zhao, Lei Duan, Guodong Wang, Baosen Min, Huibo Cao, Clarina R. Dela Cruz, Kan Zhao, Hongyi Sun, Jinlong Zhu, Jianfeng Zhang, Tao Xiang, Xiancheng Wang, Changqing Jin
Summary: We report a ferromagnetic compound Ba9V3Te15 with quasi-one-dimensional spin chains, which exhibits strong one-dimensional structural character. It is a semiconductor with negative magnetoresistance effect and undergoes a ferromagnetic transition.
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Physics, Condensed Matter
Nathan Episcopo, Po-Hao Chang, Thomas W. Heitmann, Kinley Wangmo, James McKamey Guthrie, Magdalena Fitta, Ryan A. Klein, Narayan Poudel, Krzysztof Gofryk, Rajendra R. Zope, Craig M. Brown, Harikrishnan S. Nair
Summary: Na2Ni2TeO6 exhibits antiferromagnetic properties with a stable transition temperature even under high magnetic fields and external pressures. Deviations in Na content do not significantly affect the magnetic transition temperature. The compound consists of a long-range ordered magnetic phase of Ni2+ mixed with a short-range ordered phase, supported by specific heat data.
JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER
(2021)
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Physics, Condensed Matter
Randy S. Fishman, George Ostrouchov, Feng Ye
Summary: This work presents two methods for fitting the inelastic neutron-scattering spectrum S(q, omega) with wavevector q and frequency omega. The first method extracts experimental spin-wave branches from the measured spectra and compares the observed and predicted frequencies. The second method directly compares the measured and predicted intensities over a grid in wavevector and frequency space. The advantages and disadvantages of each approach are demonstrated by studying the open honeycomb material Tb2Ir3Ga9.
JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER
(2022)
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Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Megumi Yatsushiro, Rikuto Oiwa, Hiroaki Kusunose, Satoru Hayami
Summary: The study investigates the nonlinear transport phenomena in PT symmetric collinear antiferromagnetic metals with a magnetic toroidal moment. By analyzing the second-order nonlinear conductivity, it is found that the effective coupling between the magnetic toroidal moment and the antisymmetric spin-orbit interaction is a crucial source of the nonlinear conductivity. Moreover, the nonreciprocal longitudinal current and nonlinear transverse current are significantly enhanced just below the transition temperature of the antiferromagnetic ordering.
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Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Anton A. Kulbakov, Denys Y. Kononenko, Satoshi Nishimoto, Quirin Stahl, Aswathi Mannathanath Chakkingal, Manuel Feig, Roman Gumeniuk, Yurii Skourski, Lakshmi Bhaskaran, Sergei A. Zvyagin, Jan Peter Embs, Ines Puente-Orench, Andrew Wildes, Jochen Geck, Oleg Janson, Dmytro S. Inosov, Darren C. Peets
Summary: Antlerite Cu3SO4(OH)(4) shows potential for tuning frustration in magnetic systems, with its magnetic ground state being exquisitely sensitive to fine details of atomic positions, indicating excellent tunability.
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Chemistry, Inorganic & Nuclear
Olga V. V. Yakubovich, Larisa V. V. Shvanskaya, Galina V. V. Kiriukhina, Sergey V. V. Simonov, Anatoly S. S. Volkov, Olga V. V. Dimitrova, Vasiliy N. N. Glazkov, Andrey N. N. Ignatenko, Seung Hwan Chung, Hyun-Joo Koo, Myung-Hwan Whangbo, Alexander N. N. Vasiliev
Summary: The multivalent manganese ortho-pyrovanadate with a unique sawtooth pattern exhibits a long-range antiferromagnetic ordering that is masked by the magnetic susceptibility measurements. Additionally, a phase transition at low temperature is observed, which was not detected through magnetic susceptibility measurements.
INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
(2023)
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Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Manodip Routh, Sudip Kumar Saha, Manoranjan Kumar, Zoltan G. Soos
Summary: The spin-1/2 chain with both ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic exchanges exhibits different spin-Peierls instabilities depending on the frustration parameter. The magnetic properties of beta-TeVO4 can be explained by appropriate models and calculations.
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Physics, Multidisciplinary
H. Fakhri, S. B. Seyedein Ardebili
Summary: This article studies the Ising chains with two different coupling constants for odd and even number of spins, providing precise predictions on values, degeneracy factors, and number of allowed energy levels. The validity of the formulations is confirmed by comparing them with data obtained from manual search and other results obtained from the change of variable method. The low-temperature behavior of entropy and specific heat capacity per spin in the maximally frustrated regime matches with the analytical results.
EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL PLUS
(2021)