A possible similarity between lyotropic cubic phases and cholesteric blue phases

Summary The common features in structures and properties of lyotropic cubic phases (LCP) and cholesteric blue phases (BP) are discussed. In both systems the cubic phases have nontrivial structures governed by frustrations. The frustration is connected with the double-twist in BPs and with the layer curvatures in LCPs. The structure of BP can be quantitatively described using the minimization of the Landau free energy with tensor order parameter. The order parameter of LCP is unknown till now; however, some minimization procedure can also be used for the solution of the phase problem. It is noted that in both systems the stable amorphous phases are observed (the fog phase or BPIII in BPs andL ₃ phase in lyotropic crystals). The importance of the observation of ?forbidden? reflections for the unequivocal identification of the space groups is emphasized. Work presented at the second USSR-Italy Bilateral Meeting on Liquid Crystals held in Moscow, September 15–21, 1988.     

阻挫诱导的亚铁磁性Heisenberg系统中的量子相变

利用密度矩阵重整化群(DMRG)方法研究磁性阻挫对一种S=1/2准一维反铁磁自旋链但却具有亚铁磁性的Heisenberg系统基态的影响.计算了单个晶胞的基态能、自旋关联函数以及自旋能隙.研究表明这种Heisenberg自旋系统的基态随着阻挫α的增强将从磁有序相变化到自旋无序相,并且伴随着自旋能隙的出现,量子相变点为α≈0.412.同时线形链上格点间自旋长程关联值的计算结果表明在磁有序区间体系的磁有序性质随着α的增强而减弱,阻挫在0≤α< 关键词： 准一维反铁磁自旋链 亚铁磁性 密度矩阵重整化群 自旋能隙     

Geometric frustrations in magnetically diluted complex oxides Li<Emphasis Type="Italic">M</Emphasis>O<Subscript>2</Subscript> (<Emphasis Type="Italic">M</Emphasis> = Sc,Ga, 3<Emphasis Type="Italic">d</Emphasis> elements)

The effect of local environment of a transition-element atom on the properties of bulk ceramics has been investigated by the example of complex oxides LiMO₂ (M = Sc, Ga, Fe, Co, Ni). It is found that the anomalies in the magnetic properties of all systems studied are due to the presence of nanoclusters of transition-element atoms and the magnetic and geometric frustrations related to the nanocluster formation.     

Dynamic magnetic and hysteretic properties of the different type core/shell nanostructures: the effect of geometry of wire shape

In the present study, we examine by comparison the dynamic magnetic and hysteretic properties of nanostructures with different magnetic core/shell particles confined within a shape structure of the wire. The model of nanostructures with core?=?spin-1 and shell?=?spin-3/2, namely cylindrical, cubic and hexagonal nanowire, is proposed for studying the effect of the geometry of wire shape on the magnetic and hysteretic properties. The results were obtained by mean-field theory as well as Glauber-type stochastic dynamics, and focused the response to thermal and hysteretic behaviours of systems. All results display dynamic magnetic properties of the nanostructure strongly dependent on the geometry of wire shape. Moreover, temperature and crystal field are proposed as the important factors affecting the dynamic properties of wire systems.     

Effect of Oxygen Nonstoichiometry on the Magnetic Phase Transitions in Frustrated YBaCo<Subscript>4</Subscript>O<Subscript>7 + <Emphasis Type="Italic">x</Emphasis></Subscript> (<Emphasis Type="Italic">x</Emphasis> = 0, 0.1, 0.2) Cobaltites

The structural and elastic characteristics of YBaCo₄O_{7 + x} (x = 0, 0.1, 0.2) cobaltites synthesized by various technologies and having various excess oxygen contents x are experimentally studied. The distortion of the crystal structure in stoichiometric samples is found to remove frustrations and to bring about a longrange magnetic order in the cobalt subsystem, which is accompanied by well-pronounced anomalies in the elastic properties in the temperature range of a magnetic phase transition T_N. At a weak deviation from oxygen stoichiometry, the structure distortion disappears, frustrations are retained, and the further development of a long-range magnetic order is hindered. As a result of an absent long-range magnetic order, the anomalies of the elastic characteristics at T_N smooth rapidly and disappear. This finding points to the suppression of structural and magnetic transitions in nonstoichiometric samples and to the conservation of only short-range correlations of order parameter. It is found that nonstoichiometric samples can be separated into two phases depending on the ceramic synthesis conditions.     

Temperature behavior of magnetization of DyCo2 compound

Zero field cooled (ZFC) and field cooled (FC) magnetization measurements were performed on the binary DyCo₂ cubic compound. Maxima for this compound were observed under ZFC magnetization. Below the broad maximum, irreversibility is observed. The magnetization curves for ZFC and FC regimes are split and magnetic moments for FC are higher than for ZFC. The dependence of the maxima upon the magnetic field and the time dependence of remanence is similar to the case of spin-glass-like systems.     

磁性薄膜自旋重取向行为的Monte Carlo模拟

利用Monte Carlo方法模拟了二维简单立方结构磁性薄膜的自旋重取向行为，重点研究了各向异性和偶极相互作用对系统自旋取向的影响．通过计算，获得了系统的相图以及系统组态、磁分量、比热等随偶极相互作用和温度的变化规律．模拟结果表明，在一定的参数范围内，随着温度的升高，系统的自旋取向将由垂直向平行方向转变。     

Ferromagnetic resonance in systems with competing uniaxial and cubic anisotropies

We develop a model for ferromagnetic resonance in systems with competing uniaxial and cubic anisotropies. This model applies to (i) magnetic materials with both uniaxial and cubic anisotropies, and (ii) magnetic nanoparticles with effective core and surface anisotropies; We numerically compute the resonance frequency as a function of the field and the resonance field as a function of the direction of the applied field for an arbitrary ratio of cubic-to-uniaxial anisotropy. We also provide some approximate analytical expressions in the case of weak cubic anisotropy. We propose a method that uses these expressions for estimating the uniaxial and cubic anisotropy constants, and for determining the relative orientation of the cubic anisotropy axes with respect to the crystal principle axes. This method is applicable to the analysis of experimental data of resonance type measurements for which we give a worked example of an iron thin film with mixed anisotropy.     

Magnetic field induced orbital polarization in cubic YbInNi4: determining the quartet ground state using x-ray linear dichroism

We have been able to induce a linear dichroic signal in the Yb M(5) x-ray absorption white line of cubic YbInNi(4) by the application of a magnetic field. The nonzero integrated intensity of the magnetic field induced dichroic spectrum indicates a net noncubic 4f orbital polarization. A quantitative analysis of the temperature and field strength dependence establishes that the crystal-field ground state is a Γ(8) quartet. The results demonstrate the potential of magnetic field induced linear dichroism as a new powerful approach for the investigation of the degeneracy and orbital degrees of freedom of cubic heavy-fermion and Kondo systems.     

Chirality waves in two-dimensional magnets

We theoretically show that moderate interaction between electrons confined to move in a plane and localized magnetic moments leads to formation of a noncoplanar magnetic state. The state is similar to the Skyrmion crystal recently observed in cubic systems with the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction; however, it does not require spin-orbit interaction. The noncoplanar magnetism is accompanied by the ground-state electrical and spin currents, generated via the real-space Berry phase mechanism. We examine the stability of the state with respect to lattice discreteness effects and the magnitude of magnetic exchange interaction. The state can be realized in a number of transition metal and magnetic semiconductor systems.     

Domain wall nucleation in epitaxial exchange-biased Fe/IrMn bilayers with highly misaligned anisotropies

The angular dependence of the magnetization reversal in epitaxial Fe/IrMn bilayers with collinear and non-collinear cubic and unidirectional anisotropies is investigated. Multistep loops with different magnetization reversal processes are observed for either positive or negative angles with respect to the Fe easy axis. The angular dependence of the switching fields displays the broken symmetry of the induced non-collinearity. The experimental results are reproduced with a generalized domain wall nucleation model that includes the induced anisotropy configuration and the peculiar asymmetric magnetic switching behavior. These results highlight the importance of the relative angle between anisotropies in epitaxial exchange bias systems with incoherent rotation reversal mechanism, opening a new pathway for tailoring the magnetic properties of such systems.     

Correlated adatom trimer on a metal surface: a continuous-time quantum Monte Carlo study

The problem of three interacting Kondo impurities is solved within a numerically exact continuous-time quantum Monte Carlo scheme. A suppression of the Kondo resonance by interatomic exchange interactions for different cluster geometries is investigated. It is shown that a drastic difference between the Heisenberg and Ising cases appears for antiferromagnetically coupled adatoms. The effects of magnetic frustrations in the adatom trimer are investigated, and possible connections with available experimental data are discussed.     

Orientational structures in nematic droplets with conical boundary conditions

Slightly diluted magnetic systems described by the disordered three-dimensional Potts model with the number of spin states q = 3 are studied in the case of a simple cubic lattice. The position of the tricritical point in the phase diagram is determined using the histogram Monte Carlo technique.     

Replica field theory and renormalization group for the Ising spin glass in an external magnetic field

We use the generic replica symmetric cubic field theory to study the transition of short-range Ising spin glasses in a magnetic field around the upper critical dimension. A novel fixed point is found from the application of the renormalization group. In the spin-glass limit, this fixed point governs the critical behavior of a class of systems characterized by a single cubic parameter. For this universality class, the spin-glass susceptibility diverges at criticality, whereas the longitudinal mode remains massive. The third mode, however, behaves unusually. The physical consequences of this unusual behavior are discussed, and a comparison with the conventional de Almeida-Thouless scenario is presented.     

Formability of ABO3 cubic perovskites

In this study, 223 binary oxide systems (of which, 34 systems can form cubic perovskites) are collected to explore the regularity of cubic perovskites formability. It is found that the octahedral factor (r_B/r_O) take the same important role as the tolerance factor (t) to form cubic perovskites in complex oxide system. Regularities governing cubic perovskites formability are obtained by using empirical structure map constructed by these two parameters, on this structure map, sample points representing systems of forming (cubic structure) and non-forming are distributed in distinctively different regions. Prediction criteria for the formability of cubic perovskites are squeezed out, which may be applied to design new substrate or buffer materials with cubic perovskite structure in compound semiconductor epitaxy.     

Half-metallic magnetism of Co2CrX (X=As, Sb) Heusler compounds: An ab initio study

In this study, we present the electronic, magnetic, and structural properties of two novel half-metallic full-Heusler compounds, Co₂CrAs and Co₂CrSb, in cubic L2₁ geometry. The calculations are based on the density functional theory within plane-wave pseudopotential method and spin-polarized generalized gradient approximation of the exchange-correlation functional. The electronic band structures and density of states of the systems indicate half-metallic behavior with vanishing electronic density of states of minority spins at Fermi level, which yields perfect spin polarization. The calculated magnetic moments of both systems in L2₁ structure are 5.00 μ_B, which are largely localized on the chromium site. The energy gaps in minority spin states are restricted by the 3d-states of cobalt atoms on two different sublattices. The formation enthalpies for both structures are negative indicating stability of these systems against decomposition into stable solid compounds.     

Structural,magnetic and neutron diffraction studies on TbFe2-TbAl2, TbCo2-TbAl2 and HoCo2-HoAl2

Both pseudobinary systems exhibit large homogeneous regions of cubic and hexagonal Laves phases. Ordering tendencies on crystallographic sites between Al and the transition metals are observed in the hexagonal type.Electron transfer to the transition metals quenches their moments so that they become nonmagnetic at high Al concentrations. The peculiarities in the mechanism of magnetization which appear in rare earth dialuminides when Al is replaced by a transition metal have been studied in detail at cryogenic temperatures.The first replacement of Al results in a decrease in saturation moment. Neutron diffraction verifies the low ordered rare earth sublattice moments and reveals the ‘lost part’ as a disordered component. Considerable magnetic hardness develops in certain regions of concentration often connected with spontaneous increases in magnetization with field. All available evidence suggests the presence of unusual domain wall effects to be responsible for this effect. High remanences develop in both the hexagonal and in the cubic structures in the intermediate region. The development of disordered magnetic components is connected either with the disorder on crystallographic sites or changes in the free electron concentration.     

Excitation spectra of ferromagnets with crystal fields

We have investigated the ferromagnetic phase transition and excitation spectrum of systems, such as the rare earths, where the crystalline fields are significant in determining the magnetic properties. Using the full level scheme appropriate to a system ofJ-4 ions in a crystal field of cubic symmetry and assuming a Heisenberg interaction, we have calculated the full temperature- andq-dependence of the dynamic susceptibility within the RPA, both in the paramagnetic and ordered regimes. Variations in behavior, both with changes in crystal field parameter and with changes in magnetic interaction strength are discussed, and emphasis is placed on the limiting case which corresponds to current experiments in the light rare earths.     

3D Monte Carlo simulations on the aggregate structures of a suspension composed of cubic hematite particles

In the previous study, from the viewpoint of surface modification technology, we considered a quasi-2D suspension in thermodynamic equilibrium in order to investigate the characteristics of magnetic cubic particles on a material surface. The present study has been expanded to include 3D Monte Carlo simulations of a suspension of magnetic cubic particles in order to discuss a regime change in the structures of cubic particle aggregates. We attempt to elucidate the dependence of a regime change in the aggregate structures on a variety of factors. The main results obtained here are summarised as follows. If the magnetic interaction strength is sufficiently large, closely packed clusters are formed by repeat and expansion of a cluster unit composed of eight particles, which may be the most preferred configuration as it gives rise to a minimum energy. A regime change in the internal structure of aggregates appears in a narrow range with increasing magnetic interaction strength. As the applied magnetic field strength is increased, closely packed clusters collapse and are transformed into wall-like clusters that are formed along the magnetic field direction. An increase in the volumetric fraction of particles induces a regime change from thick chain-like clusters to the formation of wall-like clusters.