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Fully solvable finite simplex lattices with open boundaries in arbitrary dimensions

Finite simplex lattice models are used in different branches of science, e.g., in condensed-matter physics, when studying frustrated magnetic systems and non-Hermitian localization phenomena; or in chemistry, when describing experiments with mixtures. An n ...

College Pk2023

Tensor network investigation of frustrated Ising models

Jeanne Colbois

In spin systems, geometrical frustration describes the impossibility of minimizing simultaneously all the interactions in a Hamiltonian, often giving rise to macroscopic ground-state degeneracies and emergent low-temperature physics. In this thesis, combin ...

EPFL2022

Level crossings and chiral transitions in transverse-field Ising models of adatom and Rydberg chains

Ivo Aguiar Maceira

This thesis is motivated by recent experiments on systems described by extensions of the one-dimensional transverse-field Ising (TFI) model where (1) finite-size properties of Ising-ordered phases -- specifically, ground state level crossings -- were obser ...

EPFL2022

Solving frustrated Ising models using tensor networks

Frédéric Mila, Jeanne Colbois

Motivated by the recent success of tensor networks to calculate the residual entropy of spin ice and kagome Ising models, we develop a general framework to study frustrated Ising models in terms of infinite tensor networks that can be contracted using stan ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2021

Multiple Magnetic Bilayers and Unconventional Criticality without Frustration in BaCuSi2O6

Frédéric Mila, Bruce Normand, Christian Rüegg, Gregory Scott Tucker, Nicolas Laflorencie

The dimerized quantum magnet BaCuSi2O6 was proposed as an example of "dimensional reduction" arising near the magnetic-field-induced quantum critical point (QCP) due to perfect geometrical frustration of its interbilayer interactions. We demonstrate by hig ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2020

Effect of oxygen defects blocking barriers on gadolinium doped ceria (GDC) electro-chemo-mechanical properties

Paul Muralt, Robin Nigon, Ahsanul Kabir

Some oxygen defective metal oxides, such as cerium and bismuth oxides, have recently shown exceptional electrostrictive properties that are even superior to the best performing lead-based electrostrictors, e.g. lead-magnesium-niobates (PMN). Compared to pi ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2019

A new kind of atlas of zeolite building blocks

Michele Ceriotti, Benjamin Aaron Helfrecht, Rocio Semino Barbaresi, Giovanni Pireddu

We have analyzed structural motifs in the Deem database of hypothetical zeolites to investigate whether the structural diversity found in this database can be well-represented by classical descriptors, such as distances, angles, and ring sizes, or whether ...

2019

Predicting polymorphism in molecular crystals using orientational entropy

Pablo Miguel Piaggi, Michele Parrinello

We introduce a computational method to discover polymorphs in molecular crystals at finite temperature. The method is based on reproducing the crystallization process starting from the liquid and letting the system discover the relevant polymorphs. This id ...

2018

Dimerization and exotic criticality in spin-S chains

Natalia Chepiga

In this thesis we have studied the emergence of spontaneously dimerized phases in frustrated spin-S chains, with emphasis on the nature of the critical lines between the dimerized and non-dimerized phases. The main numerical method used in this thesis is t ...

EPFL2017

Exchange anisotropy as mechanism for spin-stripe formation in frustrated spin chains

Helmuth Berger

We investigate the spin-stripe mechanism responsible for the peculiar nanometer modulation of the incommensurate magnetic order that emerges between the vector-chiral and the spin-density-wave phase in the frustrated zigzag spin-1/2 chain compound beta-TeV ...

Amer Physical Soc2016

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