Antiferromagnetic spin correlations in MnO nanoparticles

We have investigated nearly monodispersive MnO nanoparticles of 10 nm diameter by polarised neutron diffraction with XYZ-polarisation analysis. We found no long-range ordering down to 3.5 K. A broad magnetic peak appeared close to Q= (1/2,1/2,1/2) signifying short-range antiferromagnetic correlations. The correlation length was found to be about 2.4 nm at T=3.5 K. The correlation length decreases rapidly with increasing temperature and becomes about 0.7 nm at T=250 K.     

Hyperfine magnetic field on Pd in Pd-Fe alloys

The hyperfine field on Pd nuclei in Pd-Fe alloys has been studied using the integral perturbed angular correlation technique (IPAC). Results are given for samples with iron contents from 3 to 60 at.% Fe and the temperature dependence of the hyperfine field is studied for a sample with 10 at.% Fe.     

Antiferromagnetic phase transition and interlayer spin correlations in short-period EuTe/PbTe superlattices

Neutron diffraction and magnetization studies of short-period antiferromagnetic (AF) semiconducting (1 1 1) EuTe/PbTe superlattices are presented. Due to the symmetry-breaking lattice mismatch strain, only a single AF configuration forms in the EuTe layers, instead of four allowed by symmetry in bulk EuTe. The strain and the finite layer thickness also lead to a strong shift in the Néel temperature. Neutron-diffraction spectra exhibit pronounced patterns of satellites, indicating spin correlations between successive EuTe layers separated by PbTe layers, and the transfer of magnetic interactions across the diamagnetic spaces. Experiments on samples with doped PbTe layers and in external magnetic fields rule out that the coupling is caused by any of the mechanisms known to occur in metallic superlattices. Hence, our data strongly suggest the existence of a new interlayer coupling mechanism.     

Long-range spin correlations in a honeycomb spin model with a magnetic field

We consider the spin-1/2 model on the honeycomb lattice [A. Kitaev, Ann. Phys. 321, 2 (2006)] in the presence of a weak magnetic field h _α ? J. Such a perturbation treated in the lowest nonvanishing order over h _α leads [K.S. Tikhonov, M.V. Feigel’man, and A.Yu. Kitaev, Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 067203 (2011)] to a powerlaw decay of irreducible spin correlations 《s ^z (t, r)s ^z (0, 0)》 ∝ h _z ² f(t, r), where f(t, r) ∝ [max(t, Jr)]^–4. We have studied the effects of the next order of perturbation in h _z and found an additional term of the order h _z ⁴ in the correlation function 《s ^z (t, r)s ^z (0, 0)》 which scales as h _z ⁴ cosγ/r ³ at Jt? r, where γ is the polar angle in the 2D plane. We demonstrate that such a contribution can be understood as a result of a perturbation of the effective Majorana Hamiltonian by the weak imaginary vector potential A _x ∝ i h _z ² .     

Spin waves in dilute ferromagnetic alloys of Pd-Fe type

The concentration dependence of spin waves stiffness coefficient in Pd-Fe alloys is calculated. Our results are in a good agreement with experimental results.     

铁基超导体中的反铁磁序和自旋动力学

类似于其他非常规超导材料,铁基高温超导电性通常出现在静态长程反铁磁序被抑制之后,并且强烈的自旋涨落始终与超导电性相伴相生,因此理解磁性相互作用是建立铁基超导微观机理的重要前提.中子散射作为研究凝聚态物质中磁性相互作用的有力工具,在揭示铁基超导电性的磁性起源方面起到了关键作用.本文系统总结了近十年来铁基超导材料的中子散射研究结果,包括铁基超导材料中的静态磁结构、磁性相变、动态磁激发、电子向列相等,并探讨它们与超导电性之间的关系.     

The ferromagnetic transition temperature of dilute Pd-Co,Pd-Fe and Pd-Mn alloys

Results of resistivity measurements on dilute Pd-Mn alloys with concentrations from 0.15 at .% to 0.7 at .% are discussed. A calculation of the transition temperature of Pd-Co, Pd-Fe and Pd-Mn alloys with concentrations between 0.05 at .% and 3 at .% is presented and compared with the available experimental data.     

Frequency dependent magnetic susceptibility and spin glass freezing inPtMn alloys

We report measurements of the low-field complex magnetic susceptibility on Pt_1?x Mn _x forx=0.01, 0.025 and 0.05 and for frequencies ν between 10 and 4,000 Hz. A strong frequency dependence of the freezing temperatureT _f is observed: ΔT _f /T _f Δ lnv=0.025 (decade ν)^?1 for all three alloys. These results as well as previous other measurements are interpreted in terms of a phenomenological model.     

Antiferromagnetic spin structure in the heavy-fermion compound YbNiAl

Neutron diffraction experiments have been performed in order to study the magnetic order of the heavyfermion compound YbNiAl. Below the Néel temperature at T _N = 2.9K a sinusoidally modulated structure is found with an amplitude of the modulation of μ = (1.9±0.2)μ_B at T = 200 mK. The magnetic propagation vector is k _m = (τ00) with τ = (0.779±0.001), and the magnetic Yb-moments are directed perpendicular to the hexagonal c-axis. The results obtained on YbNiAl are discussed in comparison to RNiAl compounds with other rare earth atoms R.     

Unusual magnetic behaviour of Mn spin in magnetic PtFe alloys: Nuclear orientation study

The low temperature nuclear orientation of⁵⁴Mn in Pt₉₉Fe₁, Pt₉₉,₉Fe_0.1 and Pt₉₉,₉₅Fe_0.05 has been studied in the temperature rangé 5–60 mK and in the external magnetic field range 0–9 T. A considerable noncollinearity of Mn magnetic moments with respect to B_ext has been found even at rather high B_ext.     

Transition to the quasi-two-dimensional magnetic state in Pd-Fe films

The Mössbauer spectra of Pd-Fe films with different thicknesses and iron concentrations are measured. In these films, the spin fluctuations associated with the transition to a quasi-two-dimensional magnetic state are observed over a wide range of temperatures. The dependences of the magnetic field strength and the Curie temperature on the film thickness are quite consistent with the scaling theory. Owing to the long-range exchange coupling, the films containing 14.4 and 7.8 at. % Fe undergo a transition to the quasi-two-dimensional state at a film thickness of several thousand angströms.     

Antiferromagnetic spin glass in doped Ge near insulator-metal transition

A low-temperature (3–100 K) electron spin resonance (ESR) study of the spin system of neutral As donors in Ge showed that on the insulator side of the insulator-metal transition the single-spin density exponentially disappears as T → 0. Such spins are bound into pairs to give an antiferromagnetic (AF) phase. Upon increasing the temperature the AF phase is destroyed, the single-spin density and, as a result, the ESR absorption signal becomes stronger. The temperature dependences of the densities of the pairs and single spins are typical for a chaotic distribution of neutral donors. In this case, there is no Néel temperature. For a low degree of compensation, the crystal lattice of Ge with the AF phase is actually a nanostructured system characterized by anisotropic internal stresses that are the strongest along one of the [110] directions. These stresses give rise to the anisotropy of the g-factor which is responsible for experimentally observed splitting of the ESR line. The compensating impurities destroy the AF phase and reduce this splitting. Local stresses are present in this case, too, but now they appear because of the Coulomb interaction of oppositely charged impurities and have no preferred orientation.     

Quantum correlations in spin models

Bell nonlocality, entanglement and nonclassical correlations are different aspects of quantum correlations for a given state. There are many methods to measure nonclassical correlations. In this paper, nonclassical correlations in two-qubit spin models are measured by the use of measurement-induced disturbance (MID) [S. Luo, Phys. Rev. A 77 (2008) 022301] and geometric measure of quantum discord (GQD) [B. Daki?, V. Vedral, C. Brukner, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105 (2010) 190502]. Their dependences on external magnetic field, spin–spin coupling, and the Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya (DM) interaction are presented in detail. We also compare Bell nonlocality, entanglement measured by concurrence, MID and GQD and illustrate their different characteristics.     

Mössbauer study indicating magnetic clusters in FeNiMn-Reentrant spin glass alloys

⁵⁷Fe Mössbauer measurements on the reentrant spin glass system (Fe _.65 Ni _.35)_1?x Mn _x are analysed under the extreme assumption that only relaxation determines the shape of the spectra. A plain model of a fluctuating hyperfine field based on the Blume-Tjon-theory /1/ is used for the evaluation. As a result the increase of the fluctuation frequencies with increasing temperature yields in lowering of the relative magnetization. Noticeable are some typical kinks of the magnetization at the reentrant temperatures. Our evaluation results in fluctuation frequencies from 10⁷ Hz to 10⁹ Hz, which indicates, if true, that the reason of the fluctuations seems not to be single spins but larger collective spin groups (clusters).