One-spin quantum logic gates from exchange interactions and a global magnetic field

It has been widely assumed that one-qubit gates in spin-based quantum computers suffer from severe technical difficulties. We show that one-qubit gates can, in fact, be generated using only modest and presently feasible technological requirements. Our solution uses only global magnetic fields and controllable Heisenberg exchange interactions, thus circumventing the need for single-spin addressing.     

Controllable optical activity of non-spherical Ag and Co SERS substrate with different magnetic field

We experimentally fabricate a non-spherical Ag and Co surface-enhanced Raman scattering(SERS) substrate, which not only retains the metallic plasmon resonant effect, but also possesses the magnetic field controllable characteristics.Raman detections are carried out with the test crystal violet(CV) and rhodamine 6G(R6G) molecules with the initiation of different magnitudes of external magnetic field. Experimental results indicate that our prepared substrate shows a higher SERS activity and magnetic controllability, where non-spherical Ag nanoparticles are driven to aggregate effectively by the magnetized Co and plenty of hot-spots are built around the metallic Ag nanoparticles, thereby leading to the enhancement of local electromagnetic field. Moreover, when the external magnetic field is increased, our prepared substrate demonstrates excellent SERS enhancement. With the 2500 Gs and 3500 Gs(1 Gs = 10~(-4)T) magnetic fields, SERS signal can also be obtained with the detection limit lowering down to 10~(-9)M. These results indicate that our proposed magnetic field controlled substrate enables us to freely achieve the enhanced and controllable SERS effect, which can be widely used in the optical sensing, single molecule detection and bio-medical applications.     

Phase diagram of the spin Hall effect

We obtain analytic formulas for the frequency-dependent spin-Hall conductivity of a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in the presence of impurities, linear spin-orbit Rashba interaction, and external magnetic field perpendicular to the 2DEG. We show how different mechanisms (skew scattering, side jump, and spin precession) can be brought in or out of focus by changing controllable parameters such as frequency, magnetic field, and temperature. We find, in particular, that the dc spin-Hall conductivity vanishes in the absence of a magnetic field, while a magnetic field restores the skew-scattering and side jump contributions proportionally to the ratio of magnetic and Rashba fields.     

Thermal Entanglement in a Two-Qubit Heisenberg XXZ Spin Chain Under a Single Pulse Magnetic Field

The thermal entanglement in a two-qubit Heisenberg XXZ spin chain is investigated under a single pulse magnetic field Bsinθ. The paper shows that the greater the contribution of the inhomogeneity on the exchange interaction, the higher thermal entanglement will be attained at the fixed temperature except the case that $\theta=2k\pi+\frac{3}{2}\pi$ . J _z  significantly disturb the thermal entanglement in uniform case. When the structure of the spin system are given, changing the external magnetic field B can induce controllable entanglement. Our study may provide a useful tool to change the entanglement of spin chain system.     

不对称钴纳米环磁特性及涡旋态控制的蒙特卡罗模拟

利用Monte Carlo模拟方法研究不同外加磁场方向对不对称钴纳米环磁特性的影响.主要研究磁化反转过程中畴壁运动可控制机制、磁滞回线及涡旋态的形成.模拟结果表明:①不同的外加磁场方向对不对称钴纳米环在磁化反转过程中畴壁的运动和涡旋态的形成及稳定性有较大的影响;②可利用畴壁能的变化及外加磁场的方向控制纳米环畴壁的运动;③磁化反转过程中涡旋态的形成及稳定性存在明显的尺寸效应.     

Analyses of crystal field and exchange interaction of Dy3Ga5O12 under extreme conditions

This paper theoretically investigates the effects of crystal field and exchange interaction field on magnetic properties in dysprosium gallium garnet under extreme conditions (low temperatures and high magnetic fields) based on quantum theory. Here, five sets of crystal field parameters are discussed and compared. It demonstrates that, only considering the crystal field effect, the experiments can not be successfully explained. Thus, referring to the molecular field theory, an effective exchange field associated with the Dy--Dy exchange interaction is further taken into account. Under special consideration of crystal field and the exchange interaction field, it obtains an excellent agreement between the theoretical results and experiments, and further confirms that the exchange interaction field between rare-earth ions has great importance to magnetic properties in paramagnetic rare-earth gallium garnets.     

Magnetic control of crystal chirality and the existence of a large magneto-optical dichroism effect in CuB2O4

The possibility of a magnetic field controlling the chirality of matter has been debated for a long time. Here, we report the successful induction of chirality in the noncentrosymmetric canted antiferromagnet, CuB2O4, by application of a low intensity static magnetic field. The chirality is reversed by a 90 degrees rotation of the direction of the magnetic field. The induction of chirality by a magnetic field gives rise to a gigantic enhancement of magnetochiral dichroism in this material. The ability to switch handedness in combination with this large magnetochiral optical effect allows us to design new optical devices such as a magnetically controllable isolator.     

Impact of Phosphorus superlattices on charge and spin dependent transport properties of zigzag silicene nanoribbons

To investigate charge and spin dependent conductance properties of Phosphorus doped zigzag silicene nanoribbons (ZSiNRs), we utilize recursive Green's function method and Landauer-Büttiker formalism. Our calculations are performed in the absence and presence of exchange magnetic fields with both parallel and antiparallel configurations. Considering a supperlattice of Phosphorus substituents in a periodic distribution at the edge of nanoribbon, the effect of increasing number of dopants and period of the distribution on transport properties are studied. It is found that transport properties of doped ZSiNRs vary with doping concentration according to being odd or even of number of dopants. For parallel configuration, doped ZSiNR with various concentrations works as a controllable spin filter with Fermi energy. Increasing doping concentration leads to increasing size of conductance gap and improvement of controlling quality of spin-filtering property while increasing period of Phosphorus atomic distribution has destructive effect on size of conductance gap and destroys spin-filtering property. Moreover, we show that although the same results are obtained for transport properties of doped ZSiNR with various concentrations of Phosphorus atoms in presence of antiparallel exchange magnetic fields, a completely controllable spin-filtering property cannot be achieved by Fermi energy changes.     

Interface induced exchange bias effect in La0.67Sr0.33MnO3/SrIrO3 multilayer

Epitaxial superlattices of ferromagnetic/paramagnetic La_0.67Sr_0.33MnO₃/SrIrO₃ materials have been prepared on SrTiO₃ (100) substrate using pulse laser deposition technique. An unexpected onset of interface magnetic interaction has been observed around 40 K. Interestingly, magnetic exchange bias effect has been observed in both field cooled and zero field cooled magnetization loops, however, the shifting of loop is opposite in both measurements. Exchange bias field vanishes as temperature increases to interface magnetic ordering temperature. Moreover, exchange bias field is found to decrease with increasing cooling field. We believe that tuning of magnetic exchange at interface during field cooling induces this evolution in nature of exchange bias field.     

Tailoring interacting magnetic nanodots via dimensionality variation of mediating electrons

Nature produces ferromagnetic materials based on nearest neighbor exchange interaction between atomic spins. For artificially fabricated nanomagnets, it is those “small” magnetic energies, e.g. anisotropy, dipolar interaction and indirect exchange interaction that play crucial roles against the thermal fluctuation. We have developed strong capabilities to grow nanodot assemblies in ultrahigh vacuum with controllable size and density on/in both metallic and insulating templates. Based on our novel synthesis capability, we have studied artificial nanomagnets with tunable coupling strength via dimensionality control of the mediating electrons in one-dimensional (1-D), 2-D, and 3-D. We show that such kind of dimensional confinement provides a unique way to induce novel magnetic properties and to gain control of them. The research outlined in this work provides the science base to understand, modify, and manipulate the magnetic properties through dimensional confinement.     

Magnetic field modulation of photonic bandgap on FeCo/NiO half-shell array

FeCo/NiO half-shell arrays were fabricated based on the periodic monolayer polystyrene spheres. The two-dimensional magnetic periodic arrays form well-defined photonic crystals with pronounced stop bands. Quite interestingly, it is found that the stop bands can be tuned by an external magnetic field. The underlying mechanism is attributed to the controllable dielectric constant of the magnetic FeCo film under an applied magnetic field. The results shown here may open up an avenue for magnetically tunable photonic crystal stop bands, which may be useful for the creation of new magneto-optical devices.     

Controlling Decoherence from Fluctuating Magnetic Field

A different strategy is proposed to control decoherence from fluctuating magnetic field by adjusting external controllable parameters. The results show that the output states in terms of the fidelity are pure states, which correspond to the state vectors that are given by a renormalized Hamiltonian. Thus, the output states may perfectly preserve memory of initial single-qubit states at some critical magnetic field parameters.     

Fault-tolerant quantum computation via exchange interactions

Quantum computation can be performed by encoding logical qubits into the states of two or more physical qubits, and control of effective exchange interactions and possibly a global magnetic field. This "encoded universality" paradigm offers potential simplifications in quantum computer design since it does away with the need to control physical qubits individually. Here we show how encoded universality schemes can be combined with fault-tolerant quantum error correction, thus establishing the scalability of such schemes.     

具有面内四极磁场的旋转玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体的基态结构研究

通过虚时演化方法研究了具有面内四极磁场的旋转玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体的基态结构.结果发现:面内四极磁场和旋转双重作用可导致中央Mermin-Ho涡旋的产生;随着磁场梯度增强,Mermin-Ho涡旋周围环绕的涡旋趋向对称化排布;在四极磁场下,密度相互作用和自旋交换相互作用作为体系的调控参数,可以控制Mermin-Ho涡旋周围的涡旋数目;该体系自旋结构中存在双曲型meron和half-skyrmion两种拓扑结构.     

PrNi$lt;sub$gt;2$lt;/sub$gt;的磁和磁热性能研究

在一些磁性材料内, 磁性离子间交换作用和磁性离子的自旋涨落对材料磁性有影响. 本文根据磁比热实验值确定了晶场参数后, 利用包含自旋涨落的交换作用有效场H_m= n₀ (1 + γ T + β e^{ω T})M, 计算了PrNi₂晶体晶场能级的Zeeman劈裂. 在温度为3.8 K ≤T≤ 30 K范围内, 计算了该晶体多晶磁矩随外磁场的变化, 以及外磁场H=5000 Oe时磁化率倒数随温度的变化, 计算结果和实验值符合较好. 当外磁场在0–50000 Oe时, 计算的该晶体的磁熵变与已有文献的理论结果相似. 计算结果说明, 提出的包含自旋涨落的交换作用有效场不仅适合亚铁磁性晶体, 而且也适合顺磁性晶体. 关键词： 2')" href="#">PrNi₂ 磁比热 交换作用有效场 磁矩 磁熵变     

Exchange bias effect in multiferroic Eu0.75Y0.25MnO3

The exchange bias phenomenon has been investigated in multiferroic Eu_0.75Y_0.25MnO₃. The material shows a weak ferromagnetism with cone spin configuration induced by external magnetic field below 30 K. Consequently, the electric polarization coming from the cycloid spin order below 30 K can be suppressed by external magnetic fields. The magnetic hysteresis loops after cooling in a magnetic field exhibit characteristics of exchange bias below the spin glassy freezing temperature (T_g)∼16 K. The exchange bias field, coercivity field, and remanent magnetization increase with increasing cooling magnetic field. The exchange bias effect is ascribed to the frozen uncompensated spins at the antiferromagnetism/weak ferromagnetism interfaces in the spin-glass like phase.     

Tuning the metal-insulator transition in manganite films through surface exchange coupling with magnetic nanodots

In strongly correlated electronic systems, the global transport behavior depends sensitively on spin ordering. We show that spin ordering in manganites can be controlled by depositing isolated ferromagnetic nanodots at the surface. The exchange field at the interface is tunable with nanodot density and makes it possible to overcome dimensionality and strain effects in frustrated systems to greatly increasing the metal-insulator transition and magnetoresistance. These findings indicate that electronic phase separation can be controlled by the presence of magnetic nanodots.     

Field cooling induced changes in the antiferromagnetic structure of NiO films

The magnetic anisotropy in antiferromagnetic 500 A thick NiO films, before and after the establishment of an exchange bias field with Co84Fe16 ferromagnetic layers, was measured using magnetic linear dichroism in soft x-ray absorption. Both <111> textured NiO and untextured NiO films show exchange-bias induced in-plane magnetic anisotropy of nearly equal magnitude and with the Ni moment axis being nearly parallel to the exchange bias field direction. These results represent the first observation of the key step in the exchange biasing process, namely, repopulation of the antiferromagnetic domains whose magnetization axis is closest to the exchange bias field direction.     

Spin-polarized transport through a coupled double-dot

We investigate the quantum transport through a mesoscopic device consisting of an open, lateral double-quantum-dot coupled by time oscillating and spin-polarization dependent tunneling which results from a static magnetic field applied in the tunneling junction. In the presence of a non-vanishing bias voltage applied to two attached macroscopic leads both spin and charge currents are driven through the device. We demonstrate that the spin and charge currents are controllable by adjusting the gate voltage, the frequency of driving field and the magnitude of the magnetic field as well. An interesting resonance phenomenon is observed.     

Field-controllable injection of virtual magnetic domain wall in discrete magnetic nanodot chains

Periodic injection behaviors of virtual magnetic domain wall (VDW) have been systematically investigated in asymmetrically shaped nanodot chains by means of micromagnetic simulations. Systematic investigation on a controllable VDW injection has been carried out. We demonstrate that precise control of VDW injection is achievable by using different nanodot shapes as well as by changing alternating magnetic field (AC field) profiles. The VDW position can be tuned by adjusting AC field frequency and amplitude. Field-controllable periodic VDW injection phenomenon is found to be sustainable over wide ranges of phase diagram spanned by AC field frequency and amplitude.