[Ni(HF$_2$)(3-Clpyridine)$_4$]BF$_4$ (NBCT) is a one-dimensional, $S = 1$ spin chain material that shows no magnetic neutron Bragg peaks down temperatures of 0.1 K. Previous work identified NBCT to be in the Haldane phase and near a quantum phase transition as a function of $D/J$ to the large-$D$ quantum paramagnet phase (QPM), where $D$ is the axial single-ion anisotropy and $J$ is the intrachain superexchange. Herein, inelastic neutron scattering results are presented on partially deuterated, $^{11}$B enriched NBCT polycrystalline samples in zero magnetic field and down to temperatures of 0.3 K. Comparison to density matrix renormalization group calculations yields $D/J = 1.51$ and a significant rhombic single-ion anisotropy $E$ ($E/D \approx 0.03$, $E/J \approx 0.05$). These $D$, $J$, and $E$ values place NBCT in the large-$D$ QPM phase but precipitously near a quantum phase transition to a long-range ordered phase.
The recent discovery of topological Kondo insulating behaviour in strongly correlated electron systems has generated considerable interest in Kondo insulators both experimentally and theoretically. The Kondo semiconductors CeT2Al10 (T=Fe, Ru and Os) possessing a c-f hybridization gap have received considerable attention recently because of the unexpected high magnetic ordering temperature of CeRu2Al10 (TN=27 K) and CeOs2Al10 (TN=28.5 K) and the Kondo insulating behaviour observed in the valence fluctuating compound CeFe2Al10 with a paramagnetic ground state down to 50 mK. We are investigating …
On the effect of isotropic and anisotropic dissipative response functions with associated and non-associated flow on the inelastic behaviour of polymeric composites
We present the structural and dynamical studies of layered vanadium pentaoxide (V2O5). The temperature dependent X-ray diffraction measurements reveal highly anisotropic and anomalous thermal expansion from 12 K to 853 K. The results do not show any evidence of structural phase transition or decomposition of α-V2O5, contrary to the previous transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS) experiments. The inelastic neutron scattering measurements performed up to 673 K corroborate the result of our X-ray diffraction measurements. The analysis of the experiment…
Beta eucryptite (LiAlSiO4) shows one-dimensional super-ionic conductivity as well as anisotropic thermal expansion behavior. We have performed inelastic neutron scattering measurements in beta eucryptite over 300 to 900 K and calculated the phonon spectrum using ab initio density functional theory method. The calculated energy profile for cooperative lithium ion displacements indicates preferential movement of Li ion along the hexagonal c-axis in the high temperature phase. However, the energy barrier for Li ion diffusion is significantly reduced when a Schottky defect is introduced in the cry…
We perform a symmetry analysis of the ABC-stacked kagome planes of Mn atoms common to the $L1_2$ Mn$_3$X and antiperovskite Mn$_3$AB alloys. In addition to the single-ion-anisotropy and Kitaev-type anisotropic exchange known to stabilize 120° spin structures in these materials, our analysis results in a staggered Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction and further gamma-type anisotropic exchange between nearest-neighbor spins. The presence of these new terms is shown not to affect the energetics of the 120° ground-states which explains their absence in prior minimal magnetic models. We go on to show…
Energy-dependent crossover from anisotropic to isotropic magnetic dispersion in lightly-doped La1.96Sr0.04CuO4
对轻掺杂La $_{1.96}$ Sr $_{0.04}$ CuO $_{4}$进行了非弹性中子散射实验，发现低温下存在对角非公度自旋关联.我们以前报道过，这种晶体，与一个单一的斜方晶域，表现出“沙漏”分散在低能量[物理评论快报。101，197001（2008）]。在本文中，我们详细调查的能量演化的磁激发高达65毫电子伏。结果发现，在低能量的各向异性激发，仅沿自旋调制方向分散，交叉到各向同性，圆锥形的分散体，类似于在母体化合物La $_2$ CuO $_{4}$的自旋波。从两重到完全对称的变化跨越沙漏的腰部再现的行为首先在欠掺杂的YBa $_2$ Cu $_3$ O $_{6+x}$的研究中确定。我们讨论了这些结果的意义。
We present thermodynamic and neutron scattering measurements on the quantum spin ice candidate Nd$_2$Zr$_2$O$_7$. The parameterization of the anisotropic exchange Hamiltonian is refined based on high-energy-resolution inelastic neutron scattering data together with thermodynamic data using linear spin wave theory and numerical linked cluster expansion. Magnetic phase diagrams are calculated using classical Monte Carlo simulations with fields along \mbox{[100]}, \mbox{[110]} and \mbox{[111]} crystallographic directions which agree qualitatively with the experiment. Large hysteresis and irrevers…
High resolution inelastic neutron scattering reveals that the elementary magnetic excitations in multiferroic MnWO4 consist of low energy dispersive electromagnons in addition to the well-known spin-wave excitations. The latter can well be modeled by a Heisenberg Hamiltonian with magnetic exchange coupling extending to the 12th nearest neighbor. They exhibit a spin-wave gap of 0.61(1) meV. Two electromagnon branches appear at lower energies of 0.07(1) meV and 0.45(1) meV at the zone center. They reflect the dynamic magnetoelectric coupling and persist in both, the collinear magnetic and parael…
We report detailed temperature-dependent inelastic neutron scattering and ab-initio lattice dynamics investigation of magnetic perovskites YCrO3 and LaCrO3. The magnetic neutron scattering from the Cr ions exhibits significant changes with temperature and dominates at low momentum transfer regime. Ab-inito calculations performed including magnetic interactions show that the effect of magnetic interaction is very signicant on the low- as well as high-energy phonon modes. We have also shown that the inelastic neutron spectrum of YCrO3 mimics the magnon spectrum from a G-type antiferromagnetic sy…
We show theoretically that electromagnetic waves propagating in the transparency region of a non-centrosymmetric medium can induce a dc electric current. The origin of the effect is the Raman scattering of light by free carriers in the system. Due to the photon scattering, electrons undergo real quantum transitions resulting in the formation of their anisotropic momentum distribution and in shifts of electronic wavepackets giving rise to a steady state photocurrent. We present microscopic theory of the Raman Photogalvanic effect (RPGE) focusing on two specific situations: (i) generic case of a…
New Insights into the Compressibility and High-Pressure Stability of Ni(CN)2 from Neutron Diffraction, Raman Spectroscopy and Inelastic Neutron Scattering
Investigation of dynamical excitations is difficult but crucial to the understanding of many exotic quantum phenomena discovered in quantum materials. This is particularly true for highly frustrated quantum antiferromagnets whose dynamical properties deviate strongly from theoretical predictions made based on the spin-wave or other approximations. Here we present a large-scale numerical calculation on the dynamical correlation functions of spin-$1/2$ triangular Heisenberg model using a state-of-the-art tensor network renormalization group method. The calculated results allow us to gain for the…
Anisotropic multiferroic properties of SrMnGe2O6 pyroxene single crystals were systematically investigated by means of magnetization, heat capacity, pyroelectric current measurement and elastic and inelastic neutron scattering experiments. Single crystal neutron diffraction allows us to unambiguously reveal the presence of two incommensurate magnetic orderings: a non-polar amplitude-modulated collinear sinusoidal magnetic structure emerges at TN1=4.36(2)K followed by a polar elliptical cycloidal spin structure below TN2=4.05(2)K. Pyroelectric current measurements on single crystal confirm the …
The magnetic properties of the cobaltite {\BCAO}, a good realization of the quasi two-dimensional frustrated honeycomb-lattice system with strong planar anisotropy, have been reinvestigated by means of spherical neutron polarimetry with CRYOPAD. From accurate measurements of polarization matrices both on elastic and inelastic contributions as a function of the scattering vector {\bf{Q}}, we have been able to determine the low-temperature magnetic structure of {\BCAO} and reveal its puzzling in-plane spin dynamics. Surprisingly, the ground-state structure (described by an incommensurate propaga…
Spin wave dispersion in the frustrated fcc type-III antiferromagnet MnS$_2$ has been determined by inelastic neutron scattering using a triple-axis spectrometer. Existence of multiple spin wave branches, with significant separation between high-energy and low-energy modes highlighting the intrinsic magnetic frustration effect on the fcc lattice, is explained in terms of a spin wave analysis carried out for the antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model for this $S=5/2$ system with nearest and next-nearest-neighbor exchange interactions. Comparison of the calculated dispersion with spin wave measuremen…
Phase diagrams of a classical two-dimensional Heisenberg antiferromagnet with single-ion anisotropy
二维各向异性Heisenberg模型的经典变形再现了La_5Ca_9Cu_24O_41的非弹性中子散射实验[M. Matsuda等人，Phys.Rev. B 68，060406（R）（2003）]主要使用蒙特卡罗技术进行分析。确定了具有平行和垂直于各向异性相互作用的易磁化轴的外场的相图，包括反铁磁相和自旋翻转相。发现移动的无自旋缺陷或空穴形成条纹，这些条纹在相变时聚束、散束和破裂。平行场可以导致自旋翻转相。
The anisotropic electron transport in the (001) plane of sublimation-grown Cl$_{2}$-NDI (naphthalene diimide) single crystals is analysed over a temperature range between 175 K and 300 K. Upon cooling from room temperature to 175 K the electron mobility along the direction of preferred transport monotonously increases from 1.5 cm$^{2}$/Vs to 2.8 cm$^{2}$/Vs according to a distinct temperature relation of $~T^{-1.3}$. At first glance, these characteristics allude to a coherent, i.e. band-like charge carrier transport predominantly governed by inelastic scattering with accoustic phonons. However…
Green's function theory of magnetism in Bi$_2$CuO$_4$: anisotropic Heisenberg XYZ model
Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC)（多诺斯蒂亚国际物理中心）；Frantsevich Institute for Problems of Materials Science National Academy of Science of Ukraine（乌克兰国家科学院弗兰采维奇材料科学问题研究所）；Universidad del País Vasco-Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea（巴斯克大学）；IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science（伊克尔巴斯基克科学基金会）
Structural heterogeneity and diffuse scattering in morphotropic lead zirconate-titanate single crystals
本文报道了在准同型相界（x=0.475）附近组成的锆钛酸铅单晶体的同步辐射X射线漫散射和非弹性散射测量结果。在293 K < T < 400 K的温度范围内，观察到了高度各向异性的准弹性漫散射。在400 K以上，这种散射消失。它的主要特征可以再现的不均匀晶格变形所造成的四面体相到菱面体或单斜相的夹杂物的模型。这一观察结果支持了PZT在其准同型相界基本上是结构不均匀的想法。
