scholarly journals Multiple fermion scattering in the weakly coupled spin-chain compound YbAlO3

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
S. E. Nikitin ◽  
S. Nishimoto ◽  
Y. Fan ◽  
J. Wu ◽  
L. S. Wu ◽  
...  

AbstractThe Heisenberg antiferromagnetic spin-1/2 chain, originally introduced almost a century ago, is one of the best studied models in quantum mechanics due to its exact solution, but nevertheless it continues to present new discoveries. Its low-energy physics is described by the Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid of spinless fermions, similar to the conduction electrons in one-dimensional metals. In this work we investigate the Heisenberg spin-chain compound YbAlO3 and show that the weak interchain coupling causes Umklapp scattering between the left- and right-moving fermions and stabilizes an incommensurate spin-density wave order at q = 2kF under finite magnetic fields. These Umklapp processes open a route to multiple coherent scattering of fermions, which results in the formation of satellites at integer multiples of the incommensurate fundamental wavevector Q = nq. Our work provides surprising and profound insight into bandstructure control for emergent fermions in quantum materials, and shows how neutron diffraction can be applied to investigate the phenomenon of coherent multiple scattering in metals through the proxy of quantum magnetic systems.

2017 ◽  
Vol 439 ◽  
pp. 101-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanmoy Chakraborty ◽  
Harkirat Singh ◽  
Dipanjan Chaudhuri ◽  
Hirale S. Jeevan ◽  
Philipp Gegenwart ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles B. Thorn

Abstract Although the energy spectrum of the Heisenberg spin chain on a circle defined by$$ H=\frac{1}{4}\sum \limits_{k=1}^M\left({\sigma}_k^x{\sigma}_{k+1}^x+{\sigma}_k^y{\sigma}_{k+1}^y+\Delta {\sigma}_k^z{\sigma}_{k+1}^z\right) $$ H = 1 4 ∑ k = 1 M σ k x σ k + 1 x + σ k y σ k + 1 y + Δ σ k z σ k + 1 z is well known for any fixed M, the boundary conditions vary according to whether M ∈ 4ℕ + r, where r = −1, 0, 1, 2, and also according to the parity of the number of overturned spins in the state, In string theory all these cases must be allowed because interactions involve a string with M spins breaking into strings with M1< M and M − M1 spins (or vice versa). We organize the energy spectrum and degeneracies of H in the case ∆ = 0 where the system is equivalent to a system of free fermions. In spite of the multiplicity of special cases, in the limit M → ∞ the spectrum is that of a free compactified worldsheet field. Such a field can be interpreted as a compact transverse string coordinate x(σ) ≡ x(σ) + R0. We construct the bosonization formulas explicitly in all separate cases, and for each sector give the Virasoro conformal generators in both fermionic and bosonic formulations. Furthermore from calculations in the literature for selected classes of excited states, there is strong evidence that the only change for ∆ ≠ 0 is a change in the compactification radius R0→ R∆. As ∆ → −1 this radius goes to infinity, giving a concrete example of noncompact space emerging from a discrete dynamical system. Finally we apply our work to construct the three string vertex implied by a string whose bosonic coordinates emerge from this mechanism.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pengcheng Lu ◽  
Yi Qiao ◽  
Junpeng Cao ◽  
Wen-Li Yang ◽  
Kang jie Shi ◽  
...  

Abstract A new nonlinear integral equation (NLIE) describing the thermodynamics of the Heisenberg spin chain is derived based on the t − W relation of the quantum transfer matrices. The free energy of the system in a magnetic field is thus obtained by solving the NLIE. This method can be generalized to other lattice quantum integrable models. Taking the SU(3)-invariant quantum spin chain as an example, we construct the corre- sponding NLIEs and compute the free energy. The present results coincide exactly with those obtained via other methods previously.


2009 ◽  
Vol 150 (4) ◽  
pp. 042159 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Ozerov ◽  
E Čižmár ◽  
J Wosnitza ◽  
S A Zvyagin ◽  
F Xiao ◽  
...  

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 401-414 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taotao Hu ◽  
Hang Ren ◽  
Kang Xue

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