We study the spin and heat conductivity of dimerized spin-1/2 chains in homogeneous magnetic fields at finite temperatures. At zero temperature, the model undergoes two field-induced quantum phase transitions from a dimerized, into a Luttinger, and finally into a fully polarized phase. We search for signatures of these transitions in the spin and heat conductivities. Using exact diagonalization, we calculate the Drude weights, the frequency dependence of the conductivities, and the corresponding integrated spectral weights. As a main result, we demonstrate that both the spin and heat conductivity are enhanced in the gapless phase and most notably at low frequencies. In the case of the thermal conductivity, however, the field-induced increase seen in the bare transport coefficients is suppressed by magnetothermal effects, caused by the coupling of the heat and spin current in finite magnetic fields. Our results complement recent magnetic transport experiments on spin ladder materials with sufficiently small exchange couplings allowing access to the field-induced transitions.
The quantum phase transition, scaling behaviors, and thermodynamics in the spin-1/2 quantum Heisenberg model with antiferromagnetic coupling $J>0$ in armchair direction and ferromagnetic interaction $J'<0$ in zigzag direction on a honeycomb lattice are systematically studied using the continuous-time quantum Monte Carlo method. By calculating the Binder ratio $Q_{2}$ and spin stiffness $ρ$ in two directions for various coupling ratio $α=J'/J$ under different lattice sizes, we found that a quantum phase transition from the dimerized phase to the stripe phase occurs at the quantum critical point…
Our first aim is to explore the effect of the collision integral with the insurance of instantaneous conservation of particle number on charge and heat transport in a thermal QCD medium. The second aim is to see how the dimensional reduction due to strong magnetic field (B) modulates the transport through the entangled effects, {\em such as} collision-time and occupation probability etc. in collision integral. The final aim is to check how the quasiparticle description through dispersion relation of thermal QCD in strong B, alters the aforesaid conclusions. We observe that modified collision t…
Quantum Spin Singlet Ground State with Large Excitation Gap in the S = 3/2 quasi-1D van der Waals materials MoX3 (X = I, Br)
University of California, Los Angeles（加州大学洛杉矶分校）；California NanoSystems Institute, University of California, Los Angeles（加州纳米系统研究所，加州大学洛杉矶分校）；University of California, Riverside（加州大学河滨分校）；Auburn University（奥本大学）；University of Georgia（佐治亚大学）；Oak Ridge National Laboratory（橡树岭国家实验室）
本研究发现 MoX3 (X = I, Br) 晶体同时具有量子自旋单态基态和经典 Néel 有序，通过实验与理论计算证实了其一维链内与三维链间耦合的相互作用，为探索原子链极限下的量子磁性提供了独特平台。
We study thermal and electrical transport in metals and superconductors near a quantum phase transition where antiferromagnetic order disappears. The same theory can also be applied to quantum phase transitions involving the loss of certain classes of intrinsic topological order. For a clean superconductor, we recover and extend the well-known universal results. The heat conductivity for commensurate and incommensurate antiferromagnetism coexisting with superconductivity shows a markedly different doping dependence near the quantum critical point, thus allowing to distinguish the states. In th…
We report a study on the thermal conductivity of CuFe$_{1-x}$Ga$_x$O$_2$ ($x =$ 0--0.12) single crystals at temperatures down to 0.3 K and in magnetic fields up to 14 T. CuFeO$_2$ is a well-known geometrically frustrated triangular lattice antiferromagnet and can be made to display multiferroicity either by applying magnetic field along the $c$ axis or by doping nonmagnetic impurities, accompanied with rich behaviors of magnetic phase transitions. The main experimental findings of this work are: (i) the thermal conductivities ($κ_a$ and $κ_c$) show drastic anomalies at temperature- or field-in…
One-dimensional gapped phases that avoid any symmetry breaking have drawn enduring attention. In this paper, we study such phases in a bond-alternating spin-1 $K$-$Γ$ chain built of a Kitaev ($K$) interaction and an off-diagonal $Γ$ term. In the case of isotropic bond strength, a Haldane phase, which resembles the ground state of a spin-$1$ Heisenberg chain, is identified in a wide region. A gapped Kitaev phase situated at dominant ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic Kitaev limits is also found. The Kitaev phase has extremely short-range spin correlations and is characterized by finite $\mathb…
Anisotropic low-temperature properties of the cubic spinel helimagnet ZnCr2Se4 in the single-domain spin-spiral state are investigated by a combination of neutron scattering, thermal conductivity, ultrasound velocity, and dilatometry measurements. In an applied magnetic field, neutron spectroscopy shows a complex and nonmonotonic evolution of the spin-wave spectrum across the quantum-critical point that separates the spin-spiral phase from the field-polarized ferromagnetic phase at high fields. A tiny spin gap of the pseudo-Goldstone magnon mode, observed at wave vectors that are structurally …
Heat Capacity Anomalies and Thermal Crossovers in Finite Su-Schrieffer-Heeger Chains
Universidade Federal Fluminense（弗鲁米嫩塞联邦大学）；Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México（墨西哥国立自治大学核科学研究所）；Faculty of Electric Engineering, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo（圣尼古拉斯德伊达尔戈米却肯自治大学电气工程学院）；Centro de Ciencias Exactas, Universidad del Bío-Bío（比奥比奥大学精确科学中心）；Departamento de Ciencias Básicas de la Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad del Bío-Bío（比奥比奥大学理学院基础科学系）
