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Coexisting spinons and magnons in the frustrated zigzag spin-1/2 chain compound beta-TeVO4

We investigate magnetic excitations in the frustrated zigzag spin-1/2 chain compound beta-TeVO4 by inelastic neutron scattering. In the magnetically ordered ground state, the excitation spectrum exhibits coexisting magnon dispersion, characteristic of long ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2018

Non-Abelian chiral spin liquid in a quantum antiferromagnet revealed by an iPEPS study

Abelian and non-Abelian topological phases exhibiting protected chiral edge modes are ubiquitous in the realm of the fractional quantum Hall (FQH) effect. Here, we investigate a spin-1 Hamiltonian on the square lattice which could, potentially, host the sp ...

2018

Connecting the Simpler Structures to Topologically Close-Packed Phases

Anirudh Raju Natarajan

Pathways connecting dissimilar crystal structures are fundamental to our understanding of structural phase transitions. In this Letter, we report on a new pathway connecting the hexagonal close-packed crystal structure to a hierarchy of topologically close ...

APS2018

Spin-liquid behaviour and the interplay between Pokrovsky-Talapov and Ising criticality in the distorted, triangular-lattice, dipolar Ising antiferromagnet

Frédéric Mila, Andrew James Smerald

We study the triangular-lattice Ising model with dipolar interactions, inspired by its realisation in artificial arrays of nanomagnets. We show that a classical spin-liquid forms at intermediate temperatures, and that its behaviour can be tuned by temperat ...

2018

Magnetic-Order Crossover in Coupled Spin Ladders

We report a novel crossover behavior in the long-range-ordered phase of a prototypical spin-1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnetic ladder compound (C7H10N)(2)CuBr4. The staggered order was previously evidenced from a continuous and symmetric splitting of (NNMR)- ...

American Physical Society2017

Symmetry-adapted order parameters and free energies for solids undergoing order-disorder phase transitions

Anirudh Raju Natarajan

Accurate thermodynamic descriptions are a key ingredient to kinetic theories that describe the mesoscale evolution of a solid undergoing ordering or decomposition reactions. We introduce a general approach to identify order parameters for order-disorder re ...

APS2017

Anomalous spin dynamics in the coupled spin tetramer system CuSeO3

Helmuth Berger

We report high-field magnetization, high-frequency electron spin resonance (ESR), and Se-77 nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) measurements on the linear spin tetramer system CuSeO3, consisting of strongly interacting Cu(1) dimers and weakly coupled Cu(2) sp ...

Amer Physical Soc2017

Spiral spin-liquid and the emergence of a vortex-like state in MnSc2S4

Jonathan White, Gregory Scott Tucker, Romain Sibille, Shang Gao

Spirals and helices are common motifs of long-range order in magnetic solids, and they may also be organized into more complex emergent structures such as magnetic skyrmions and vortices. A new type of spiral state, the spiral spin-liquid, in which spins f ...

Nature Publishing Group2017

Analysis of crystalline phases and integration modelling of charge quenching yields in hybrid lead halide perovskite solar cell materials

Ulf Anders Hagfeldt

Organic inorganic metal halide perovskites (OIHPs) has emerged as promising photovoltaic materials the latest years. Many OIHPs, however, have complex material compositions with mixed cation and halide compositions, phase mixtures, as well as beneficial re ...

Elsevier Science Bv2017

Coherent generation of symmetry-forbidden phonons by light-induced electron-phonon interactions in magnetite

Oleg Yazyev, Fabrizio Carbone, Frank van Mourik, Christopher Alexander Arrell, Edoardo Baldini, Andreas Helmut Christian Mann, Simone Borroni

Symmetry breaking across phase transitions often causes changes in selection rules and emergence of optical modes which can be detected via spectroscopic techniques or generated coherently in pump-probe experiments. In second-order or weakly first-order tr ...

Amer Physical Soc2017

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