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Zhang Y, Lin LF, Moreo A, Maier TA, Dagotto E. Structural phase transition, s ±-wave pairing, and magnetic stripe order in bilayered superconductor La 3Ni 2O 7 under pressure. Nat Commun 2024; 15:2470. [PMID: 38503754 PMCID: PMC10951331 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-46622-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2023] [Accepted: 03/04/2024] [Indexed: 03/21/2024] Open
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Motivated by the recently discovered high-Tc superconductor La3Ni2O7, we comprehensively study this system using density functional theory and random phase approximation calculations. At low pressures, the Amam phase is stable, containing the Y2- mode distortion from the Fmmm phase, while the Fmmm phase is unstable. Because of small differences in enthalpy and a considerable Y2- mode amplitude, the two phases may coexist in the range between 10.6 and 14 GPa, beyond which the Fmmm phase dominates. In addition, the magnetic stripe-type spin order with wavevector (π, 0) was stable at the intermediate region. Pairing is induced in the s±-wave channel due to partial nesting between the M = (π, π) centered pockets and portions of the Fermi surface centered at the X = (π, 0) and Y = (0, π) points. This resembles results for iron-based superconductors but has a fundamental difference with iron pnictides and selenides. Moreover, our present efforts also suggest La3Ni2O7 is qualitatively different from infinite-layer nickelates and cuprate superconductors.
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- Yang Zhang
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 37996, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 37996, USA.
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 37996, USA
- Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, 37831, USA
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- Computational Sciences and Engineering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, 37831, USA.
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 37996, USA.
- Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, 37831, USA.
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Jażdżewska A, Mierzejewski M, Środa M, Nocera A, Alvarez G, Dagotto E, Herbrych J. Transition to the Haldane phase driven by electron-electron correlations. Nat Commun 2023; 14:8524. [PMID: 38129389 PMCID: PMC10740019 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-44135-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2023] [Accepted: 12/01/2023] [Indexed: 12/23/2023] Open
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One of the most famous quantum systems with topological properties, the spin [Formula: see text] antiferromagnetic Heisenberg chain, is well-known to display exotic [Formula: see text] edge states. However, this spin model has not been analyzed from the more general perspective of strongly correlated systems varying the electron-electron interaction strength. Here, we report the investigation of the emergence of the Haldane edge in a system of interacting electrons - the two-orbital Hubbard model-with increasing repulsion strength U and Hund interaction JH. We show that interactions not only form the magnetic moments but also form a topologically nontrivial fermionic many-body ground-state with zero-energy edge states. Specifically, upon increasing the strength of the Hubbard repulsion and Hund exchange, we identify a sharp transition point separating topologically trivial and nontrivial ground-states. Surprisingly, such a behaviour appears already at rather small values of the interaction, in a regime where the magnetic moments are barely developed.
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- A Jażdżewska
- Faculty of Physics and Astronomy, University of Wrocław, 50-383, Wrocław, Poland
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- Institute of Theoretical Physics, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, 50-370, Wrocław, Poland
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- Institute of Theoretical Physics, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, 50-370, Wrocław, Poland
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy and Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z1, Canada
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- Computational Sciences and Engineering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, 37831, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 37996, USA
- Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, 37831, USA
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- Institute of Theoretical Physics, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, 50-370, Wrocław, Poland.
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Zhang H, Xing C, Noordhoek K, Liu Z, Zhao T, Horák L, Huang Q, Hao L, Yang J, Pandey S, Dagotto E, Jiang Z, Chu JH, Xin Y, Choi ES, Zhou H, Liu J. Anomalous magnetoresistance by breaking ice rule in Bi 2Ir 2O 7/Dy 2Ti 2O 7 heterostructure. Nat Commun 2023; 14:1404. [PMID: 36918538 PMCID: PMC10014844 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-36886-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2022] [Accepted: 02/21/2023] [Indexed: 03/16/2023] Open
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While geometrically frustrated quantum magnets host rich exotic spin states with potentials for revolutionary quantum technologies, most of them are necessarily good insulators which are difficult to be integrated with modern electrical circuit. The grand challenge is to electrically detect the emergent fluctuations and excitations by introducing charge carriers that interact with the localized spins without destroying their collective spin states. Here, we show that, by designing a Bi2Ir2O7/Dy2Ti2O7 heterostructure, the breaking of the spin-ice rule in insulating Dy2Ti2O7 leads to a charge response in the conducting Bi2Ir2O7 measured as anomalous magnetoresistance during the field-induced Kagome ice-to-saturated ice transition. The magnetoresistive anomaly also captures the characteristic angular and temperature dependence of this ice-rule-breaking transition, which has been understood as magnetic monopole condensation. These results demonstrate a novel heteroepitaxial approach for electronically probing the transition between exotic insulating spin states, laying out a blueprint for the metallization of frustrated quantum magnets.
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- Han Zhang
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 37996, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 37996, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 37996, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA
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- School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 30332, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 37996, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 37996, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 37996, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 37996, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 37996, USA.,Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, 37831, USA
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- School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 30332, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA
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- National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, 32310, USA
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- National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, 32310, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 37996, USA.
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 37996, USA.
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Mazza AR, Skoropata E, Sharma Y, Lapano J, Heitmann TW, Musico BL, Keppens V, Gai Z, Freeland JW, Charlton TR, Brahlek M, Moreo A, Dagotto E, Ward TZ. Designing Magnetism in High Entropy Oxides. Adv Sci (Weinh) 2022; 9:e2200391. [PMID: 35150081 PMCID: PMC8981892 DOI: 10.1002/advs.202200391] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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In magnetic systems, spin and exchange disorder can provide access to quantum criticality, frustration, and spin dynamics, but broad tunability of these responses and a deeper understanding of strong limit disorder are lacking. Here, it is demonstrated that high entropy oxides present a previously unexplored route to designing materials in which the presence of strong local compositional disorder may be exploited to generate tunable magnetic behaviors-from macroscopically ordered states to frustration-driven dynamic spin interactions. Single-crystal La(Cr0.2 Mn0.2 Fe0.2 Co0.2 Ni0.2 )O3 films are used as a model system hosting a magnetic sublattice with a high degree of microstate disorder in the form of site-to-site spin and exchange type inhomogeneity. A classical Heisenberg model simplified to represent the highest probability microstates well describes how compositionally disordered systems can paradoxically host magnetic uniformity and demonstrates a path toward continuous control over ordering types and critical temperatures. Model-predicted materials are synthesized and found to possess an incipient quantum critical point when magnetic ordering types are designed to be in direct competition, this leads to highly controllable exchange bias behaviors previously accessible only in intentionally designed bilayer heterojunctions.
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- Alessandro R. Mazza
- Materials Science and Technology DivisionOak Ridge National LaboratoryOak RidgeTN37831USA
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- Materials Science and Technology DivisionOak Ridge National LaboratoryOak RidgeTN37831USA
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- Materials Science and Technology DivisionOak Ridge National LaboratoryOak RidgeTN37831USA
- Center for Integrated NanotechnologiesLos Alamos National LaboratoryLos AlamosNM87545USA
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- Materials Science and Technology DivisionOak Ridge National LaboratoryOak RidgeTN37831USA
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- University of Missouri Research ReactorThe University of MissouriColumbiaMO65211USA
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- Department of Materials Science and EngineeringUniversity of TennesseeKnoxvilleTN37996‐4545USA
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- Department of Materials Science and EngineeringUniversity of TennesseeKnoxvilleTN37996‐4545USA
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- Center for Nanophase Materials SciencesOak Ridge National LaboratoryOak RidgeTN37831USA
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- Advanced Photon SourceArgonne National LaboratoryLemontIL60439USA
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- Materials Science and Technology DivisionOak Ridge National LaboratoryOak RidgeTN37831USA
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- Materials Science and Technology DivisionOak Ridge National LaboratoryOak RidgeTN37831USA
- Department of Physics and AstronomyUniversity of TennesseeKnoxvilleTN37996USA
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- Materials Science and Technology DivisionOak Ridge National LaboratoryOak RidgeTN37831USA
- Department of Physics and AstronomyUniversity of TennesseeKnoxvilleTN37996USA
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- Materials Science and Technology DivisionOak Ridge National LaboratoryOak RidgeTN37831USA
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Lin LF, Zhang Y, Alvarez G, Moreo A, Dagotto E. Origin of Insulating Ferromagnetism in Iron Oxychalcogenide Ce_{2}O_{2}FeSe_{2}. Phys Rev Lett 2021; 127:077204. [PMID: 34459630 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.127.077204] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2021] [Revised: 07/16/2021] [Accepted: 07/19/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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An insulating ferromagnetic (FM) phase exists in the quasi-one-dimensional iron oxychalcogenide Ce_{2}O_{2}FeSe_{2}, but its origin is unknown. To understand the FM mechanism, here a systematic investigation of this material is provided, analyzing the competition between ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic tendencies and the interplay of hoppings, Coulomb interactions, Hund's coupling, and crystal-field splittings. Our intuitive analysis based on second-order perturbation theory shows that large entanglements between doubly occupied and half filled orbitals play a key role in stabilizing the FM order in Ce_{2}O_{2}FeSe_{2}. In addition, via many-body computational techniques applied to a multiorbital Hubbard model, the phase diagram confirms the proposed FM mechanism.
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- Ling-Fang Lin
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
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- Computational Sciences and Engineering Division and Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
- Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
- Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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Yoo MW, Tornos J, Sander A, Lin LF, Mohanta N, Peralta A, Sanchez-Manzano D, Gallego F, Haskel D, Freeland JW, Keavney DJ, Choi Y, Strempfer J, Wang X, Cabero M, Vasili HB, Valvidares M, Sanchez-Santolino G, Gonzalez-Calbet JM, Rivera A, Leon C, Rosenkranz S, Bibes M, Barthelemy A, Anane A, Dagotto E, Okamoto S, te Velthuis SGE, Santamaria J, Villegas JE. Large intrinsic anomalous Hall effect in SrIrO 3 induced by magnetic proximity effect. Nat Commun 2021; 12:3283. [PMID: 34078889 PMCID: PMC8172877 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-23489-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2020] [Accepted: 04/25/2021] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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The anomalous Hall effect (AHE) is an intriguing transport phenomenon occurring typically in ferromagnets as a consequence of broken time reversal symmetry and spin-orbit interaction. It can be caused by two microscopically distinct mechanisms, namely, by skew or side-jump scattering due to chiral features of the disorder scattering, or by an intrinsic contribution directly linked to the topological properties of the Bloch states. Here we show that the AHE can be artificially engineered in materials in which it is originally absent by combining the effects of symmetry breaking, spin orbit interaction and proximity-induced magnetism. In particular, we find a strikingly large AHE that emerges at the interface between a ferromagnetic manganite (La0.7Sr0.3MnO3) and a semimetallic iridate (SrIrO3). It is intrinsic and originates in the proximity-induced magnetism present in the narrow bands of strong spin-orbit coupling material SrIrO3, which yields values of anomalous Hall conductivity and Hall angle as high as those observed in bulk transition-metal ferromagnets. These results demonstrate the interplay between correlated electron physics and topological phenomena at interfaces between 3d ferromagnets and strong spin-orbit coupling 5d oxides and trace an exciting path towards future topological spintronics at oxide interfaces.
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- Myoung-Woo Yoo
- grid.460789.40000 0004 4910 6535Unité Mixte de Physique, CNRS, Thales, Université Paris-Saclay, Palaiseau, France
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- grid.4795.f0000 0001 2157 7667GFMC, Dept. Fisica de Materiales, Facultad de Fisica, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain
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- grid.460789.40000 0004 4910 6535Unité Mixte de Physique, CNRS, Thales, Université Paris-Saclay, Palaiseau, France
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- grid.411461.70000 0001 2315 1184Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN USA ,grid.263826.b0000 0004 1761 0489School of Physics, Southeast University, Nanjing, China
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- grid.135519.a0000 0004 0446 2659Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN USA
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- grid.4795.f0000 0001 2157 7667GFMC, Dept. Fisica de Materiales, Facultad de Fisica, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain
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- grid.4795.f0000 0001 2157 7667GFMC, Dept. Fisica de Materiales, Facultad de Fisica, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain
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- grid.4795.f0000 0001 2157 7667GFMC, Dept. Fisica de Materiales, Facultad de Fisica, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain
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- grid.187073.a0000 0001 1939 4845Advanced Photon Source Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL USA
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- grid.187073.a0000 0001 1939 4845Advanced Photon Source Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL USA
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- grid.187073.a0000 0001 1939 4845Advanced Photon Source Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL USA
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- grid.187073.a0000 0001 1939 4845Advanced Photon Source Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL USA
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- grid.187073.a0000 0001 1939 4845Advanced Photon Source Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL USA
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- grid.253355.70000 0001 2192 5641Department of Physics, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA USA
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- grid.5515.40000000119578126IMDEA Nanoscience Campus Universidad Autonoma, Cantoblanco, Spain ,grid.4795.f0000 0001 2157 7667Centro Nacional de Microscopia Electronica, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain
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- grid.423639.9CELLS-ALBA Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Cerdanyola del Valles, Spain
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- grid.423639.9CELLS-ALBA Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Cerdanyola del Valles, Spain
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- grid.4795.f0000 0001 2157 7667GFMC, Dept. Fisica de Materiales, Facultad de Fisica, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain
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- grid.4795.f0000 0001 2157 7667Centro Nacional de Microscopia Electronica, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain ,grid.4795.f0000 0001 2157 7667Department Quimica Inorganica, Facultad de Quimica, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain
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- grid.4795.f0000 0001 2157 7667GFMC, Dept. Fisica de Materiales, Facultad de Fisica, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain
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- grid.4795.f0000 0001 2157 7667GFMC, Dept. Fisica de Materiales, Facultad de Fisica, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain
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- grid.187073.a0000 0001 1939 4845Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL USA
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- grid.460789.40000 0004 4910 6535Unité Mixte de Physique, CNRS, Thales, Université Paris-Saclay, Palaiseau, France
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- grid.460789.40000 0004 4910 6535Unité Mixte de Physique, CNRS, Thales, Université Paris-Saclay, Palaiseau, France
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- grid.460789.40000 0004 4910 6535Unité Mixte de Physique, CNRS, Thales, Université Paris-Saclay, Palaiseau, France
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- grid.411461.70000 0001 2315 1184Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN USA ,grid.135519.a0000 0004 0446 2659Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN USA
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- grid.135519.a0000 0004 0446 2659Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN USA
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- grid.187073.a0000 0001 1939 4845Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL USA
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- grid.4795.f0000 0001 2157 7667GFMC, Dept. Fisica de Materiales, Facultad de Fisica, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain
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- grid.460789.40000 0004 4910 6535Unité Mixte de Physique, CNRS, Thales, Université Paris-Saclay, Palaiseau, France
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Herbrych J, Heverhagen J, Alvarez G, Daghofer M, Moreo A, Dagotto E. Block-spiral magnetism: An exotic type of frustrated order. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2020; 117:16226-16233. [PMID: 32601231 PMCID: PMC7368323 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2001141117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Competing interactions in quantum materials induce exotic states of matter such as frustrated magnets, an extensive field of research from both the theoretical and experimental perspectives. Here, we show that competing energy scales present in the low-dimensional orbital-selective Mott phase (OSMP) induce an exotic magnetic order, never reported before. Earlier neutron-scattering experiments on iron-based 123 ladder materials, where OSMP is relevant, already confirmed our previous theoretical prediction of block magnetism (magnetic order of the form [Formula: see text]). Now we argue that another phase can be stabilized in multiorbital Hubbard models, the block-spiral state. In this state, the magnetic islands form a spiral propagating through the chain but with the blocks maintaining their identity, namely rigidly rotating. The block-spiral state is stabilized without any apparent frustration, the common avenue to generate spiral arrangements in multiferroics. By examining the behavior of the electronic degrees of freedom, parity-breaking quasiparticles are revealed. Finally, a simple phenomenological model that accurately captures the macroscopic spin spiral arrangement is also introduced, and fingerprints for the neutron-scattering experimental detection are provided.
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- J Herbrych
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996;
- Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831
- Department of Theoretical Physics, Faculty of Fundamental Problems of Technology, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, 50-370 Wrocław, Poland
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- Institute for Functional Matter and Quantum Technologies, University of Stuttgart, D-70550 Stuttgart, Germany
- Center for Integrated Quantum Science and Technology, University of Stuttgart, D-70550 Stuttgart, Germany
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- Computational Sciences and Engineering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831
- Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831
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- Institute for Functional Matter and Quantum Technologies, University of Stuttgart, D-70550 Stuttgart, Germany
- Center for Integrated Quantum Science and Technology, University of Stuttgart, D-70550 Stuttgart, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996
- Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996
- Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831
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Hu WJ, Zhang Y, Nevidomskyy AH, Dagotto E, Si Q, Lai HH. Fractionalized Excitations Revealed by Entanglement Entropy. Phys Rev Lett 2020; 124:237201. [PMID: 32603177 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.124.237201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2019] [Accepted: 05/27/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Fractionalized excitations develop in many unusual many-body states such as quantum spin liquids, disordered phases that cannot be described using any local order parameter. Because these exotic excitations correspond to emergent degrees of freedom, how to probe them and establish their existence is a long-standing challenge. We present a general procedure to reveal the fractionalized excitations using real-space entanglement entropy in critical spin liquids that are particularly relevant to experiments. Moreover, we show how to use the entanglement entropy to construct the corresponding spinon Fermi surface. Our work defines a new pathway to establish and characterize exotic excitations in novel quantum phases of matter.
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- Wen-Jun Hu
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
- Department of Physics and Astronomy & Rice Center for Quantum Materials, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, USA
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- International Center for Quantum Materials, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy & Rice Center for Quantum Materials, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
- Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy & Rice Center for Quantum Materials, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy & Rice Center for Quantum Materials, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, USA
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Lin LF, Zhang Y, Moreo A, Dagotto E, Dong S. Erratum: Frustrated Dipole Order Induces Noncollinear Proper Ferrielectricity in Two Dimensions [Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 067601 (2019)]. Phys Rev Lett 2019; 123:259901. [PMID: 31922775 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.123.259901] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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This corrects the article DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.067601.
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Lin LF, Zhang Y, Moreo A, Dagotto E, Dong S. Frustrated Dipole Order Induces Noncollinear Proper Ferrielectricity in Two Dimensions. Phys Rev Lett 2019; 123:067601. [PMID: 31491163 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.123.067601] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2019] [Revised: 06/04/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Within Landau theory, magnetism and polarity are homotopic, displaying a one-to-one correspondence between most physical characteristics. However, despite widely reported noncollinear magnetism, spontaneous noncollinear electric dipole order as a ground state is rare. Here, a dioxydihalides family is predicted to display noncollinear ferrielectricity, induced by competing ferroelectric and antiferroelectric soft modes. This intrinsic of dipoles generates unique physical properties, such as Z_{2}×Z_{2} topological domains, atomic-scale dipole vortices, and negative piezoelectricity.
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- Ling-Fang Lin
- School of Physics, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
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- School of Physics, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
- Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
- Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- School of Physics, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China
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Herbrych J, Heverhagen J, Patel ND, Alvarez G, Daghofer M, Moreo A, Dagotto E. Novel Magnetic Block States in Low-Dimensional Iron-Based Superconductors. Phys Rev Lett 2019; 123:027203. [PMID: 31386537 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.123.027203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2018] [Revised: 05/09/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Inelastic neutron scattering recently confirmed the theoretical prediction of a ↑↑↓↓-magnetic state along the legs of quasi-one-dimensional iron-based ladders in the orbital-selective Mott phase (OSMP). We show here that electron doping of the OSMP induces a whole class of novel block states with a variety of periodicities beyond the previously reported π/2 pattern. We discuss the magnetic phase diagram of the OSMP regime that could be tested by neutrons once appropriate quasi-1D quantum materials with the appropriate dopings are identified.
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- J Herbrych
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
- Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
- Department of Theoretical Physics, Faculty of Fundamental Problems of Technology, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, 50-370 Wrocław, Poland
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- Institute for Functional Matter and Quantum Technologies, University of Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 57, D-70550 Stuttgart, Germany
- Center for Integrated Quantum Science and Technology, University of Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 57, D-70550 Stuttgart, Germany
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- Department of Physics, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
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- Computational Sciences and Engineering Division and Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- Institute for Functional Matter and Quantum Technologies, University of Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 57, D-70550 Stuttgart, Germany
- Center for Integrated Quantum Science and Technology, University of Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 57, D-70550 Stuttgart, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
- Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
- Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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Dong S, Xiang H, Dagotto E. Magnetoelectricity in multiferroics: a theoretical perspective. Natl Sci Rev 2019; 6:629-641. [PMID: 34691919 PMCID: PMC8291640 DOI: 10.1093/nsr/nwz023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2018] [Revised: 01/31/2019] [Accepted: 02/04/2019] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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The key physical property of multiferroic materials is the existence of coupling between magnetism and polarization, i.e. magnetoelectricity. The origin and manifestations of magnetoelectricity can be very different in the available plethora of multiferroic systems, with multiple possible mechanisms hidden behind the phenomena. In this review, we describe the fundamental physics that causes magnetoelectricity from a theoretical viewpoint. The present review will focus on mainstream physical mechanisms in both single-phase multiferroics and magnetoelectric heterostructures. The most recent tendencies addressing possible new magnetoelectric mechanisms will also be briefly outlined.
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- Shuai Dong
- School of Physics, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China
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- Key Laboratory of Computational Physical Sciences (Ministry of Education), State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics, and Department of Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing 210093, China
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA
- Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA
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Nocera A, Kumar U, Kaushal N, Alvarez G, Dagotto E, Johnston S. Computing Resonant Inelastic X-Ray Scattering Spectra Using The Density Matrix Renormalization Group Method. Sci Rep 2018; 8:11080. [PMID: 30038401 PMCID: PMC6056525 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-29218-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2018] [Accepted: 07/06/2018] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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We present a method for computing the resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS) spectra in one-dimensional systems using the density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) method. By using DMRG to address this problem, we shift the computational bottleneck from the memory requirements associated with exact diagonalization (ED) calculations to the computational time associated with the DMRG algorithm. This approach is then used to obtain RIXS spectra on cluster sizes well beyond state-of-the-art ED techniques. Using this new procedure, we compute the low-energy magnetic excitations observed in Cu L-edge RIXS for the challenging corner shared CuO4 chains, both for large multi-orbital clusters and downfolded t-J chains. We are able to directly compare results obtained from both models defined in clusters with identical momentum resolution. In the strong coupling limit, we find that the downfolded t-J model captures the main features of the magnetic excitations probed by RIXS only after a uniform scaling of the spectra is made.
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- A Nocera
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, 37996, USA.
- Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 37831, USA.
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, 37996, USA
- Joint Institute for Advanced Materials, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 37996, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, 37996, USA
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- Computational Science and Engineering Division and Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 37831, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, 37996, USA
- Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 37831, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, 37996, USA
- Joint Institute for Advanced Materials, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 37996, USA
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Lin H, Liu H, Lin L, Dong S, Chen H, Bai Y, Miao T, Yu Y, Yu W, Tang J, Zhu Y, Kou Y, Niu J, Cheng Z, Xiao J, Wang W, Dagotto E, Yin L, Shen J. Unexpected Intermediate State Photoinduced in the Metal-Insulator Transition of Submicrometer Phase-Separated Manganites. Phys Rev Lett 2018; 120:267202. [PMID: 30004745 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.120.267202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2018] [Revised: 05/09/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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At ultrafast timescales, the initial and final states of a first-order metal-insulator transition often coexist forming clusters of the two phases. Here, we report an unexpected third long-lived intermediate state emerging at the photoinduced first-order metal-insulator transition of La_{0.325}Pr_{0.3}Ca_{0.375}MnO_{3}, known to display submicrometer length-scale phase separation. Using magnetic force microscopy and time-dependent magneto-optical Kerr effect, we determined that the third state is a nanoscale mixture of the competing ferromagnetic metallic and charge-ordered insulating phases, with its own physical properties. This discovery bridges the two different families of colossal magnetoresistant manganites known experimentally and shows for the first time that the associated states predicted by theory can coexist in a single sample.
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- Hanxuan Lin
- State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics and Department of Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics and Department of Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- School of Physics, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China
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- School of Physics, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics and Department of Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics and Department of Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics and Department of Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics and Department of Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics and Department of Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics and Department of Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics and Department of Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics and Department of Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics and Department of Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
- Institute for Nanoelectronics Devices and Quantum Computing, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing 210093, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics and Department of Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
- Institute for Nanoelectronics Devices and Quantum Computing, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
- Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics and Department of Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
- Institute for Nanoelectronics Devices and Quantum Computing, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing 210093, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics and Department of Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
- Institute for Nanoelectronics Devices and Quantum Computing, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing 210093, China
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Okamoto S, Alvarez G, Dagotto E, Tohyama T. Accuracy of the microcanonical Lanczos method to compute real-frequency dynamical spectral functions of quantum models at finite temperatures. Phys Rev E 2018; 97:043308. [PMID: 29758620 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.97.043308] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2018] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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We examine the accuracy of the microcanonical Lanczos method (MCLM) developed by Long et al. [Phys. Rev. B 68, 235106 (2003)PRBMDO0163-182910.1103/PhysRevB.68.235106] to compute dynamical spectral functions of interacting quantum models at finite temperatures. The MCLM is based on the microcanonical ensemble, which becomes exact in the thermodynamic limit. To apply the microcanonical ensemble at a fixed temperature, one has to find energy eigenstates with the energy eigenvalue corresponding to the internal energy in the canonical ensemble. Here, we propose to use thermal pure quantum state methods by Sugiura and Shimizu [Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 010401 (2013)PRLTAO0031-900710.1103/PhysRevLett.111.010401] to obtain the internal energy. After obtaining the energy eigenstates using the Lanczos diagonalization method, dynamical quantities are computed via a continued fraction expansion, a standard procedure for Lanczos-based numerical methods. Using one-dimensional antiferromagnetic Heisenberg chains with S=1/2, we demonstrate that the proposed procedure is reasonably accurate, even for relatively small systems.
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- Satoshi Okamoto
- Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA.,Computational Science and Engineering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA.,Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
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- Department of Applied Physics, Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo 125-8585, Japan
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Patel ND, Mukherjee A, Kaushal N, Moreo A, Dagotto E. Non-Fermi Liquid Behavior and Continuously Tunable Resistivity Exponents in the Anderson-Hubbard Model at Finite Temperature. Phys Rev Lett 2017; 119:086601. [PMID: 28952753 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.119.086601] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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We employ a recently developed computational many-body technique to study for the first time the half-filled Anderson-Hubbard model at finite temperature and arbitrary correlation U and disorder V strengths. Interestingly, the narrow zero temperature metallic range induced by disorder from the Mott insulator expands with increasing temperature in a manner resembling a quantum critical point. Our study of the resistivity temperature scaling T^{α} for this metal reveals non-Fermi liquid characteristics. Moreover, a continuous dependence of α on U and V from linear to nearly quadratic is observed. We argue that these exotic results arise from a systematic change with U and V of the "effective" disorder, a combination of quenched disorder and intrinsic localized spins.
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- Niravkumar D Patel
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
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- School of Physical Sciences, National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Jatni 752050, India
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
- Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
- Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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Sinclair R, Cao HB, Garlea VO, Lee M, Choi ES, Dun ZL, Dong S, Dagotto E, Zhou HD. Canted magnetic ground state of quarter-doped manganites R 0.75Ca 0.25MnO 3 (R = Y, Tb, Dy, Ho, and Er). J Phys Condens Matter 2017; 29:065802. [PMID: 28002058 DOI: 10.1088/1361-648x/aa4de1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Polycrystalline samples of the quarter-doped manganites R 0.75Ca0.25MnO3 (R = Y, Tb, Dy, Ho, and Er) were studied by x-ray diffraction and AC/DC susceptibility measurements. All five samples are orthorhombic and exhibit similar magnetic properties: enhanced ferromagnetism below T 1 (∼80 K) and a spin glass (SG) state below T SG (∼30 K). With increasing R 3+ ionic size, both T 1 and T SG generally increase. The single crystal neutron diffraction results on Tb0.75Ca0.25MnO3 revealed that the SG state is mainly composed of a short-range ordered version of a novel canted (i.e. noncollinear) antiferromagnetic spin state. Furthermore, calculations based on the double exchange model for quarter-doped manganites reveal that this new magnetic phase provides a transition state between the ferromagnetic state and the theoretically predicted spin-orthogonal stripe phase.
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- R Sinclair
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996-1200, USA
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Bishop CB, Moreo A, Dagotto E. Bicollinear Antiferromagnetic Order, Monoclinic Distortion, and Reversed Resistivity Anisotropy in FeTe as a Result of Spin-Lattice Coupling. Phys Rev Lett 2016; 117:117201. [PMID: 27661717 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.117.117201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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The bicollinear antiferromagnetic order experimentally observed in FeTe is shown to be stabilized by the coupling g[over ˜]_{12} between monoclinic lattice distortions and the spin-nematic order parameter with B_{2g} symmetry, within a three-orbital spin-fermion model studied with Monte Carlo techniques. A finite but small value of g[over ˜]_{12} is required, with a concomitant lattice distortion compatible with experiments, and a tetragonal-monoclinic transition strongly first order. Remarkably, the bicollinear state found here displays a planar resistivity with the "reversed" puzzling anisotropy discovered in transport experiments. Orthorhombic distortions are also incorporated, and phase diagrams interpolating between pnictides and chalcogenides are presented. We conclude that the spin-lattice coupling we introduce is sufficient to explain the challenging properties of FeTe.
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- Christopher B Bishop
- Department of Physics and Astronomy,University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37966, USA and Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy,University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37966, USA and Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy,University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37966, USA and Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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Weng Y, Lin L, Dagotto E, Dong S. Inversion of Ferrimagnetic Magnetization by Ferroelectric Switching via a Novel Magnetoelectric Coupling. Phys Rev Lett 2016; 117:037601. [PMID: 27472140 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.117.037601] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Although several multiferroic materials or heterostructures have been extensively studied, finding strong magnetoelectric couplings for the electric field control of the magnetization remains challenging. Here, a novel interfacial magnetoelectric coupling based on three components (ferroelectric dipole, magnetic moment, and antiferromagnetic order) is analytically formulated. As an extension of carrier-mediated magnetoelectricity, the new coupling is shown to induce an electric-magnetic hysteresis loop. Realizations employing BiFeO_{3} bilayers grown along the [111] axis are proposed. Without involving magnetic phase transitions, the magnetization orientation can be switched by the carrier modulation driven by the field effect, as confirmed using first-principles calculations.
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- Yakui Weng
- Department of Physics, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China
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- Department of Physics, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
- Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- Department of Physics, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China
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Liu G, Kaushal N, Li S, Bishop CB, Wang Y, Johnston S, Alvarez G, Moreo A, Dagotto E. Orbital-selective Mott phases of a one-dimensional three-orbital Hubbard model studied using computational techniques. Phys Rev E 2016; 93:063313. [PMID: 27415393 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.93.063313] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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A recently introduced one-dimensional three-orbital Hubbard model displays orbital-selective Mott phases with exotic spin arrangements such as spin block states [J. Rincón et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 106405 (2014)PRLTAO0031-900710.1103/PhysRevLett.112.106405]. In this publication we show that the constrained-path quantum Monte Carlo (CPQMC) technique can accurately reproduce the phase diagram of this multiorbital one-dimensional model, paving the way to future CPQMC studies in systems with more challenging geometries, such as ladders and planes. The success of this approach relies on using the Hartree-Fock technique to prepare the trial states needed in CPQMC. We also study a simplified version of the model where the pair-hopping term is neglected and the Hund coupling is restricted to its Ising component. The corresponding phase diagrams are shown to be only mildly affected by the absence of these technically difficult-to-implement terms. This is confirmed by additional density matrix renormalization group and determinant quantum Monte Carlo calculations carried out for the same simplified model, with the latter displaying only mild fermion sign problems. We conclude that these methods are able to capture quantitatively the rich physics of the several orbital-selective Mott phases (OSMP) displayed by this model, thus enabling computational studies of the OSMP regime in higher dimensions, beyond static or dynamic mean-field approximations.
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- Guangkun Liu
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
- Department of Physics, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
- Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
- Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
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- Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
- Computer Science and Mathematics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
- Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
- Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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Mukherjee A, Patel ND, Bishop C, Dagotto E. Parallelized traveling cluster approximation to study numerically spin-fermion models on large lattices. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys 2015; 91:063303. [PMID: 26172819 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.91.063303] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2015] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Lattice spin-fermion models are important to study correlated systems where quantum dynamics allows for a separation between slow and fast degrees of freedom. The fast degrees of freedom are treated quantum mechanically while the slow variables, generically referred to as the "spins," are treated classically. At present, exact diagonalization coupled with classical Monte Carlo (ED + MC) is extensively used to solve numerically a general class of lattice spin-fermion problems. In this common setup, the classical variables (spins) are treated via the standard MC method while the fermion problem is solved by exact diagonalization. The "traveling cluster approximation" (TCA) is a real space variant of the ED + MC method that allows to solve spin-fermion problems on lattice sizes with up to 10(3) sites. In this publication, we present a novel reorganization of the TCA algorithm in a manner that can be efficiently parallelized. This allows us to solve generic spin-fermion models easily on 10(4) lattice sites and with some effort on 10(5) lattice sites, representing the record lattice sizes studied for this family of models.
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- Anamitra Mukherjee
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
- Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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Al-Hassanieh KA, Rincón J, Alvarez G, Dagotto E. Spin Andreev-like reflection in metal-Mott insulator heterostructures. Phys Rev Lett 2015; 114:066401. [PMID: 25723231 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.114.066401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2014] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Using the time-dependent density-matrix renormalization group (tDMRG), we study the time evolution of electron wave packets in one-dimensional (1D) metal-superconductor heterostructures. The results show Andreev reflection at the interface, as expected. By combining these results with the well-known single-spin-species electron-hole transformation in the Hubbard model, we predict an analogous spin Andreev reflection in metal-Mott insulator heterostructures. This effect is numerically confirmed using 1D tDMRG, but it is expected to also be present in higher dimensions, as well as in more general Hamiltonians. We present an intuitive picture of the spin reflection, analogous to that of Andreev reflection at metal-superconductor interfaces. This allows us to discuss a novel antiferromagnetic proximity effect. Possible experimental realizations are discussed.
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- K A Al-Hassanieh
- Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA and Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 2Y5, Canada
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- Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA and Computer Science & Mathematics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA and Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
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Dong S, Liu JM, Dagotto E. BaFe(2)Se(3) a high T(C) magnetic multiferroic with large ferrielectric polarization. Phys Rev Lett 2014; 113:187204. [PMID: 25396394 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.113.187204] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2014] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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The iron selenides are important because of their superconducting properties. Here, an unexpected phenomenon is predicted to occur in an iron-selenide compound with a quasi-one-dimensional ladder geometry: BaFe(2)Se(3) should be a magnetic ferrielectric system, driven by its magnetic block order via exchange striction. A robust performance (high T(C) and large polarization) is expected. Different from most multiferroics, BaFe(2)Se(3) is ferrielectric, with a polarization that mostly cancels between ladders. However, its strong magnetostriction still produces a net polarization that is large (∼0.1 μC/cm(2)) as compared with most magnetic multiferroics. Its fully ferroelectric state, with energy only slightly higher than the ferrielectric, has a giant improper polarization ∼2-3 μC/cm(2).
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- Shuai Dong
- Department of Physics, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China
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- National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA and Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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Cantoni C, Mitchell JE, May AF, McGuire MA, Idrobo JC, Berlijn T, Dagotto E, Chisholm MF, Zhou W, Pennycook SJ, Sefat AS, Sales BC. Orbital occupancy and charge doping in iron-based superconductors. Adv Mater 2014; 26:6193-6198. [PMID: 25070045 DOI: 10.1002/adma.201401518] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2014] [Revised: 06/05/2014] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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The intrinsic Fe local magnetic moment and Fe orbital occupations of iron-based superconductors are unveiled through the local, real-space capability of aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy/electron energy loss spectroscopy (STEM/EELS). Although the ordering of Fe moments needs to be suppressed for superconductivity to arise, the local, fluctuating Fe magnetic moment is enhanced near optimal superconductivity.
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- Claudia Cantoni
- Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, 37831, USA
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Salafranca J, Rincón J, Tornos J, León C, Santamaria J, Dagotto E, Pennycook SJ, Varela M. Competition between covalent bonding and charge transfer at complex-oxide interfaces. Phys Rev Lett 2014; 112:196802. [PMID: 24877959 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.112.196802] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2013] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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Here we study the electronic properties of cuprate-manganite interfaces. By means of atomic resolution electron microscopy and spectroscopy, we produce a subnanometer scale map of the transition metal oxidation state profile across the interface between the high Tc superconductor YBa2Cu3O7-δ and the colossal magnetoresistance compound (La,Ca)MnO3. A net transfer of electrons from manganite to cuprate with a peculiar nonmonotonic charge profile is observed. Model calculations rationalize the profile in terms of the competition between standard charge transfer tendencies (due to band mismatch), strong chemical bonding effects across the interface, and Cu substitution into the Mn lattice, with different characteristic length scales.
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- Juan Salafranca
- Grupo de Física de Materiales Complejos, Universidad Complutense, 28040 Madrid, Spain and Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA and Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- Grupo de Física de Materiales Complejos, Universidad Complutense, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Grupo de Física de Materiales Complejos, Universidad Complutense, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Grupo de Física de Materiales Complejos, Universidad Complutense, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA and Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
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- Grupo de Física de Materiales Complejos, Universidad Complutense, 28040 Madrid, Spain and Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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Rincón J, Moreo A, Alvarez G, Dagotto E. Exotic magnetic order in the orbital-selective Mott regime of multiorbital systems. Phys Rev Lett 2014; 112:106405. [PMID: 24679314 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.112.106405] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2013] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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The orbital-selective Mott phase of multiorbital Hubbard models has been extensively analyzed before using static and dynamical mean-field approximations. In parallel, the properties of block states (antiferromagnetically coupled ferromagnetic spin clusters) in Fe-based superconductors have also been much discussed. The present effort uses numerically exact techniques in one-dimensional systems to report the observation of block states within the orbital-selective Mott phase regime, connecting two seemingly independent areas of research, and providing analogies with the physics of double-exchange models.
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- Julián Rincón
- Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA and Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA and Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
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- Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA and Computer Science & Mathematics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA and Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
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Jiang L, Choi WS, Jeen H, Dong S, Kim Y, Han MG, Zhu Y, Kalinin SV, Dagotto E, Egami T, Lee HN. Tunneling electroresistance induced by interfacial phase transitions in ultrathin oxide heterostructures. Nano Lett 2013; 13:5837-5843. [PMID: 24205817 DOI: 10.1021/nl4025598] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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The ferroelectric (FE) control of electronic transport is one of the emerging technologies in oxide heterostructures. Many previous studies in FE tunnel junctions (FTJs) exploited solely the differences in the electrostatic potential across the FTJs that are induced by changes in the FE polarization direction. Here, we show that in practice the junction current ratios between the two polarization states can be further enhanced by the electrostatic modification in the correlated electron oxide electrodes, and that FTJs with nanometer thin layers can effectively produce a considerably large electroresistance ratio at room temperature. To understand these surprising results, we employed an additional control parameter, which is related to the crossing of electronic and magnetic phase boundaries of the correlated electron oxide. The FE-induced phase modulation at the heterointerface ultimately results in an enhanced electroresistance effect. Our study highlights that the strong coupling between degrees of freedom across heterointerfaces could yield versatile and novel applications in oxide electronics.
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- Lu Jiang
- Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory , Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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Guo H, Noh JH, Dong S, Rack PD, Gai Z, Xu X, Dagotto E, Shen J, Ward TZ. Electrophoretic-like gating used to control metal-insulator transitions in electronically phase separated manganite wires. Nano Lett 2013; 13:3749-3754. [PMID: 23899098 DOI: 10.1021/nl4016842] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Electronically phase separated manganite wires are found to exhibit controllable metal-insulator transitions under local electric fields. The switching characteristics are shown to be fully reversible, polarity independent, and highly resistant to thermal breakdown caused by repeated cycling. It is further demonstrated that multiple discrete resistive states can be accessed in a single wire. The results conform to a phenomenological model in which the inherent nanoscale insulating and metallic domains are rearranged through electrophoretic-like processes to open and close percolation channels.
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- Hangwen Guo
- Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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Liang S, Moreo A, Dagotto E. Nematic state of pnictides stabilized by interplay between spin, orbital, and lattice degrees of freedom. Phys Rev Lett 2013; 111:047004. [PMID: 23931398 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.111.047004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2013] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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The nematic state of the iron-based superconductors is studied in the undoped limit of the three-orbital (xz, yz, xy) spin-fermion model via the introduction of lattice degrees of freedom. Monte Carlo simulations show that in order to stabilize the experimentally observed lattice distortion and nematic order, and to reproduce photoemission experiments, both the spin-lattice and orbital-lattice couplings are needed. The interplay between their respective coupling strengths regulates the separation between the structural and Néel transition temperatures. Experimental results for the temperature dependence of the resistivity anisotropy and the angle-resolved photoemission orbital spectral weight are reproduced by the present numerical simulations.
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- Shuhua Liang
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37966, USA
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Bruno FY, Schmidt R, Varela M, Garcia-Barriocanal J, Rivera-Calzada A, Cuellar FA, Leon C, Thakur P, Cezar JC, Brookes NB, Garcia-Hernandez M, Dagotto E, Pennycook SJ, Santamaria J. Electron doping by charge transfer at LaFeO3/Sm2CuO4 epitaxial interfaces. Adv Mater 2013; 25:1468-1473. [PMID: 23292988 DOI: 10.1002/adma.201203483] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2012] [Revised: 10/23/2012] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Using X-ray absorption spectroscopy and electron energy loss spectroscopy with atomic-scale spatial resolution, experimental evidence for charge transfer at the interface between the Mott insulators Sm2 CuO4 and LaFeO3 is obtained. As a consequence of the charge transfer, the Sm2 CuO4 is doped with electrons and thus epitaxial Sm2 CuO4 /LaFeO3 heterostructures become metallic.
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- Flavio Y Bruno
- GFMC, Departamento Física Aplicada III, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Campus Moncloa, Madrid, Spain.
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Liang S, Alvarez G, Şen C, Moreo A, Dagotto E. Anisotropy of electrical transport in pnictide superconductors studied using Monte Carlo simulations of the spin-fermion model. Phys Rev Lett 2012; 109:047001. [PMID: 23006104 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.109.047001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2011] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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An undoped three-orbital spin-fermion model for the Fe-based superconductors is studied via Monte Carlo techniques in two-dimensional clusters. At low temperatures, the magnetic and one-particle spectral properties are in agreement with neutron and photoemission experiments. Our main results are the resistance versus temperature curves that display the same features observed in BaFe(2)As(2) detwinned single crystals (under uniaxial stress), including a low-temperature anisotropy between the two directions followed by a peak at the magnetic ordering temperature, that qualitatively appears related to short-range spin order and concomitant Fermi surface orbital order.
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- Shuhua Liang
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
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Alvarez G, da Silva LGGVD, Ponce E, Dagotto E. Time evolution with the density-matrix renormalization-group algorithm: a generic implementation for strongly correlated electronic systems. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys 2011; 84:056706. [PMID: 22181546 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.84.056706] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2011] [Revised: 08/17/2011] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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A detailed description of the time-step-targeting time evolution method within the density-matrix renormalization-group algorithm is presented. The focus of this publication is on the implementation of the algorithm and its generic application. The case of one-site excitations within a Hubbard model is analyzed as a test for the algorithm, using open chains and two-leg ladder geometries. The accuracy of the procedure in the case of the recently discussed holon-doublon photo excitations of Mott insulators is also analyzed. Performance and parallelization issues are discussed. In addition, the full open-source code is provided as supplementary material.
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- G Alvarez
- Computer Science and Mathematics Division and Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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Nicholson A, Ge W, Zhang X, Riera J, Daghofer M, Oleś AM, Martins GB, Moreo A, Dagotto E. Competing pairing symmetries in a generalized two-orbital model for the pnictide superconductors. Phys Rev Lett 2011; 106:217002. [PMID: 21699330 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.106.217002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2010] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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We introduce and study an extended "t-U-J" two-orbital model for the pnictides that includes Heisenberg terms deduced from the strong coupling expansion. Including these J terms explicitly allows us to enhance the strength of the (π,0)-(0,π) spin order which favors the presence of tightly bound pairing states even in the small clusters that are here exactly diagonalized. The A(1g) and B(2g) pairing symmetries are found to compete in the realistic spin-ordered and metallic regime. The dynamical pairing susceptibility additionally unveils low-lying B(1g) states, suggesting that small changes in parameters may render any of the three channels stable.
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- Andrew Nicholson
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
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Sen C, Alvarez G, Dagotto E. First order colossal magnetoresistance transitions in the two-orbital model for manganites. Phys Rev Lett 2010; 105:097203. [PMID: 20868190 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.105.097203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2010] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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Large-scale Monte Carlo simulation results for the two-orbital model for manganites, including Jahn-Teller lattice distortions, are presented here. At hole density x=1/4 and in the vicinity of the region of competition between the ferromagnetic metallic and spin-charge-orbital ordered insulating phases, the colossal magnetoresistance (CMR) phenomenon is observed with a magnetoresistance ratio ∼10,000%. Our main result is that this CMR transition is found to be of first order in some portions of the phase diagram, in agreement with early results from neutron scattering, specific heat, and magnetization, thus solving a notorious discrepancy between experiments and previous theoretical studies. The first order characteristics of the transition survive, and are actually enhanced, when weak quenched disorder is introduced.
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- Cengiz Sen
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
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Ye F, Chi S, Fernandez-Baca JA, Moreo A, Dagotto E, Lynn JW, Mathieu R, Kaneko Y, Tokura Y, Dai P. Electronic self-organization in the single-layer manganite Pr1-xCa1+xMnO4. Phys Rev Lett 2009; 103:167202. [PMID: 19905720 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.103.167202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2009] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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We use neutron scattering to investigate the doping evolution of the magnetic correlations in the single-layer manganite Pr1-xCa1+xMnO4, away from the x=0.5 composition where the CE-type commensurate antiferromagnetic (AF) structure is stable. We find that short-range incommensurate spin correlations develop as the system is electron doped (x<0.5), which coexist with the CE-type AF order. This suggests that electron doping in this system induces an inhomogeneous electronic self-organization, where commensurate AF patches with x=0.5 are separated by electron-rich domain walls with short-range magnetic correlations. This behavior is strikingly different than for the perovskite Pr1-xCaxMnO3, where the long-range CE-type commensurate AF structure is stable over a wide range of electron or hole doping around x=0.5.
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- F Ye
- Neutron Scattering Science Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6393, USA.
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Dong S, Yamauchi K, Yunoki S, Yu R, Liang S, Moreo A, Liu JM, Picozzi S, Dagotto E. Exchange bias driven by the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction and ferroelectric polarization at G-type antiferromagnetic perovskite interfaces. Phys Rev Lett 2009; 103:127201. [PMID: 19792455 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.103.127201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2009] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Exchange bias is usually rationalized invoking spin pinning effects caused by uncompensated antiferromagnetic interfaces. However, for compensated antiferromagnets other extrinsic factors, such as interface roughness or spin canting, have to be considered to produce a small uncompensation. As an alternative, here we propose two (related) possible mechanisms, driven by the intrinsic Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction and ferroelectric polarization, for the explanation of exchange bias effects in perovskites with compensated G-type antiferromagnetism. One of the mechanisms is only active when a multiferroic material is involved and it is controllable by electric fields.
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- Shuai Dong
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
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Dong S, Yu R, Liu JM, Dagotto E. Striped multiferroic phase in double-exchange model for quarter-doped manganites. Phys Rev Lett 2009; 103:107204. [PMID: 19792340 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.103.107204] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2009] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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The phase diagram of quarter-hole-doped perovskite manganites is investigated using the double-exchange model. An exotic striped type-II multiferroic phase, where 25% of the nearest-neighbor spin couplings are orthogonal to each other, is found in the narrow-bandwidth region. Comparing with the spiral-spin ordering phase of undoped manganites, the multiferroic Curie temperature of the new phase is estimated to be approximately 4 times higher, while the ferroelectric polarization is similar in magnitude. Our study provides a path for noncollinear spin multiferroics based on electronic self-organization, different from the traditional approach based on superexchange frustration.
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- Shuai Dong
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
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Ward TZ, Zhang XG, Yin LF, Zhang XQ, Liu M, Snijders PC, Jesse S, Plummer EW, Cheng ZH, Dagotto E, Shen J. Time-resolved electronic phase transitions in manganites. Phys Rev Lett 2009; 102:087201. [PMID: 19257781 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.102.087201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2008] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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The dynamics of first-order electronic phase transitions in complex transition metal oxides are not well understood but are crucial in understanding the emergent phenomena of electronic phase separation. We show that a manganite system reduced to the scale of its inherent electronic charge-ordered insulating and ferromagnetic metal phase domains allows for the direct observation of single electronic phase domain fluctuations within a critical regime of temperature and magnetic field at the metal-insulator transition.
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- T Z Ward
- Materials Sciences and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37830, USA
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Daghofer M, Moreo A, Riera JA, Arrigoni E, Scalapino DJ, Dagotto E. Model for the magnetic order and pairing channels in Fe pnictide superconductors. Phys Rev Lett 2008; 101:237004. [PMID: 19113584 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.101.237004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/01/2008] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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A two-orbital model for Fe-pnictide superconductors is investigated using computational techniques on two-dimensional square clusters. The hopping amplitudes are derived from orbital overlap integrals, or by band structure fits, and the spin frustrating effect of the plaquette-diagonal Fe-Fe hopping is remarked. A spin striped state is stable in a broad range of couplings in the undoped regime, in agreement with neutron scattering. Adding two electrons to the undoped ground state of a small cluster, the dominant pairing operators are found. Depending on the parameters, two pairing operators were identified: they involve inter-xz-yz orbital combinations forming spin singlets or triplets, transforming according to the B2g and A2g representations of the D4h group, respectively.
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- M Daghofer
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
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Alvarez G, Dagotto E. Fermi arcs in the superconducting clustered state for underdoped cuprate superconductors. Phys Rev Lett 2008; 101:177001. [PMID: 18999774 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.101.177001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2008] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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The one-particle spectral function of a state formed by superconducting (SC) clusters is studied via Monte Carlo techniques. The clusters have similar SC amplitudes but randomly distributed phases. This state is stabilized by competition with the antiferromagnetism expected to be present in the cuprates and after quenched disorder is introduced. A Fermi surface composed of disconnected segments, i.e., Fermi arcs, is observed between the critical temperature T_(c) and the cluster formation temperature scale T*.
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- G Alvarez
- Computer Science & Mathematics Division and Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA
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González I, Okamoto S, Yunoki S, Moreo A, Dagotto E. Charge transfer in heterostructures of strongly correlated materials. J Phys Condens Matter 2008; 20:264002. [PMID: 21694336 DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/20/26/264002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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In this work, recent theoretical investigations by the authors in the area of oxide multilayers are briefly reviewed. The calculations were carried out using model Hamiltonians and a variety of non-perturbative techniques. Moreover, new results are also included here. They correspond to the generation of a metallic state by mixing insulators in a multilayer geometry, using the Hubbard and double-exchange models. For the latter, the resulting metallic state is also ferromagnetic. This illustrates how electron or hole doping via transfer of charge in multilayers can lead to the study of phase diagrams of transition metal oxides in the clean limit. Currently, these phase diagrams are much affected by the disordering standard chemical doping procedure, which introduces quenched disorder in the material.
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- I González
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA. Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA
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Ward TZ, Liang S, Fuchigami K, Yin LF, Dagotto E, Plummer EW, Shen J. Reemergent metal-insulator transitions in manganites exposed with spatial confinement. Phys Rev Lett 2008; 100:247204. [PMID: 18643624 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.100.247204] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2008] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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The metal-insulator transition is characterized as a single peak in the temperature-dependent resistivity measurements; exceptions to this have never been seen in any single crystal material system. We show that by reducing a single crystal manganite thin film to a wire with a width comparable to the mesoscopic phase-separated domains inherent in the material, a second and robust metal-insulator transition peak appears in the resistivity versus temperature measurement. This new observation suggests that spatial confinement is a promising route for the discovery of emergent physical phenomena in complex oxides.
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- T Z Ward
- Materials Sciences and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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Al-Hassanieh KA, Reboredo FA, Feiguin AE, González I, Dagotto E. Excitons in the one-dimensional Hubbard model: a real-time study. Phys Rev Lett 2008; 100:166403. [PMID: 18518228 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.100.166403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2007] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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We study the real-time dynamics of a hole and doubly occupied site pair, namely, a holon and a doublon, in a 1D Hubbard insulator with on-site and nearest-neighbor Coulomb repulsion. Our analysis shows that the pair is long-lived and the expected decay mechanism to underlying spin excitations is actually inefficient. For a nonzero intersite Coulomb repulsion, we observe that part of the wave function remains in a bound state. Our study also provides insight on the holon-doublon propagation in real space. Because of the one-dimensional nature of the problem, these particles move in opposite directions even in the absence of an applied electric field. The potential relevance of our results to solar cell applications is discussed.
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- K A Al-Hassanieh
- Theoretical Division T-11, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA
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The Kondo lattice model enlarged by an antiferromagnetic coupling J AF between the localized spins is here investigated using computational techniques. Our results suggest the existence of a d-wave superconducting phase close to half-filling mediated by antiferromagnetic fluctuations. This establishes a closer connection between theory and heavy fermion experiments than currently provided by the standard Kondo lattice model with J AF=0.
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- J C Xavier
- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, CP 593, Uberlândia MG 38400-902, Brazil
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Picozzi S, Yamauchi K, Sanyal B, Sergienko IA, Dagotto E. Dual nature of improper ferroelectricity in a magnetoelectric multiferroic. Phys Rev Lett 2007; 99:227201. [PMID: 18233318 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.99.227201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2007] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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Using first-principles calculations, we study the microscopic origin of ferroelectricity (FE) induced by magnetic order in the orthorhombic HoMnO3. We obtain the largest ferroelectric polarization observed in the whole class of improper magnetic ferroelectrics to date. We find that the two proposed mechanisms for FE in multiferroics, lattice and electronic based, are simultaneously active in this compound: a large portion of the ferroelectric polarization arises due to quantum-mechanical effects of electron orbital polarization, in addition to the conventional polar atomic displacements. An interesting mechanism for switching the magnetoelectric domains by an electric field via a 180 degrees coherent rotation of Mn spins is also proposed.
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- S Picozzi
- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche-Istituto Nazionale di Fisica della Materia (CNR-INFM), CASTI Regional Laboratory, 67010 L'Aquila, Italy
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Yildirim Y, Alvarez G, Moreo A, Dagotto E. Large-scale Monte Carlo study of a realistic lattice model for Ga(1-x)MnxAs. Phys Rev Lett 2007; 99:057207. [PMID: 17930788 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.99.057207] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2006] [Revised: 02/09/2007] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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Mn-doped GaAs is studied with a real-space Hamiltonian on an fcc lattice that reproduces the valence bands of undoped GaAs. Large-scale Monte Carlo (MC) simulations on a Cray XT3, using up to a thousand nodes, were needed. Spin-orbit interaction and the random distribution of the Mn ions are considered. The hopping amplitudes are functions of the GaAs Luttinger parameters. At the realistic coupling J approximately 1.2 eV the MC Curie temperature and magnetization curves agree with experiments for x = 8.5% annealed samples. Mn-doped GaSb and GaP are also briefly discussed.
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- Yucel Yildirim
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37966-1200, USA
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Sen C, Alvarez G, Dagotto E. Competing ferromagnetic and charge-ordered states in models for manganites: the origin of the colossal magnetoresistance effect. Phys Rev Lett 2007; 98:127202. [PMID: 17501153 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.98.127202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2006] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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The one-orbital model for manganites with cooperative phonons and superexchange coupling JAF is investigated via large-scale Monte Carlo simulations. The results for two orbitals are also briefly discussed. Focusing on the electron density n=0.75, a regime of competition between ferromagnetic metallic and charge-ordered (CO) insulating states is identified. In the vicinity of the associated bicritical point, colossal magnetoresistance (CMR) effects are observed. The CMR is associated with the development of short-distance correlations among polarons, above the spin ordering temperatures, resembling the charge arrangement of the low-temperature CO state.
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- Cengiz Sen
- National High Magnetic Field Laboratory and Department of Physics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32310, USA
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Kancharla SS, Dagotto E. Correlated insulated phase suggests bond order between band and mott insulators in two dimensions. Phys Rev Lett 2007; 98:016402. [PMID: 17358494 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.98.016402] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2006] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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We investigate the ground state phase diagram of the half-filled repulsive Hubbard model in two dimensions in the presence of a staggered potential Delta, the so-called ionic Hubbard model, using cluster dynamical mean-field theory. We find that for large Coulomb repulsion, U >> Delta, the system is a Mott insulator (MI). For weak to intermediate values of Delta, on decreasing U, the Mott gap closes at a critical value Uc1(Delta) beyond which a correlated insulating phase with possible bond order is found. Further, this phase undergoes a first-order transition to a band insulator (BI) at Uc2(Delta) with a finite charge gap at the transition. For large Delta, there is a direct first-order transition from a MI to a BI with a single metallic point at the phase boundary.
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- S S Kancharla
- Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 32831, USA
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