We provide a novel experimental method to quantitatively estimate the electron-phonon coupling and its momentum dependence from resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS) spectra based on the ...detuning of the incident photon energy away from an absorption resonance. We apply it to the cuprate parent compound NdBa_{2}Cu_{3}O_{6} and find that the electronic coupling to the oxygen half-breathing phonon branch is strongest at the Brillouin zone boundary, where it amounts to ∼0.17 eV, in agreement with previous studies. In principle, this method is applicable to any absorption resonance suitable for RIXS measurements and will help to define the contribution of lattice vibrations to the peculiar properties of quantum materials.
Na2IrO3, a honeycomb 5d5 oxide, has been recently identified as a potential realization of the Kitaev spin lattice. The basic feature of this spin model is that for each of the three metal-metal ...links emerging out of a metal site, the Kitaev interaction connects only spin components perpendicular to the plaquette defined by the magnetic ions and two bridging ligands. The fact that reciprocally orthogonal spin components are coupled along the three different links leads to strong frustration effects and nontrivial physics. While the experiments indicate zigzag antiferromagnetic order in Na2IrO3, the signs and relative strengths of the Kitaev and Heisenberg interactions are still under debate. Herein we report results of ab initio many-body electronic-structure calculations and establish that the nearest-neighbor exchange is strongly anisotropic with a dominant ferromagnetic Kitaev part, whereas the Heisenberg contribution is significantly weaker and antiferromagnetic. The calculations further reveal a strong sensitivity to tiny structural details such as the bond angles. In addition to the large spin-orbit interactions, this strong dependence on distortions of the Ir2O2 plaquettes singles out the honeycomb 5d5 oxides as a new playground for the realization of unconventional magnetic ground states and excitations in extended systems.
The quest to achieve optimal directional radiation from microlasers has stimulated numerous investigations in the field of dielectric microresonators which play an important role in fundamental and ...applied research. This review focuses on a comprehensive discussion of recent results from experimental and theoretical studies ranging from tailoring resonator shapes for directed light emission, mode interactions occurring at avoided resonance crossings, and non-Hermitian physics to wave chaotic properties of dielectric microwave cavities. This is a review on theoretical and experimental studies on dielectric microcavities, which play a significant role in fundamental and applied research. The basic concepts and theories are introduced. Experimental techniques for fabrication of microcavities and optical characterization are described. Starting from undeformed cavities, the review moves on to weak deformation, intermediate deformation with mixed phase space, and then strong deformation with full ray chaos. Non-Hermitian physics such as avoided resonance crossings and exceptional points are covered along with various dynamical tunneling phenomena. Some specific topics such as unidirectional output, beam shifts, wavelength-scale microcavities, and rotating microcavities are discussed. The open microdisk and microsphere cavities are ideal model systems for the studies on wave chaos and non-Hermitian physics.
The large antiferromagnetic exchange coupling in the parent highTc cuprate superconductors is believed to play a crucial role in pairing the superconducting carriers. The recent observation of ...superconductivity in hole-doped infinite-layer (IL-) NdNiO2 brings to the fore the relevance of magnetic coupling in highTc superconductors, particularly because no magnetic ordering is observed in the undoped IL-NdNiO2 , unlike in parent copper oxides. Here, we investigate the electronic structure and the nature of magnetic exchange in ILNdNiO2 using state-of-the-art many-body quantum chemistry methods. From a systematic comparison of the electronic and magnetic properties with isostructural cuprate ILCaCuO2 , we find that the on-site dynamical correlations are significantly stronger in ILNdNiO2 compared to the cuprate analog. These dynamical correlations play a critical role in the magnetic exchange resulting in an unexpectedly large antiferromagnetic nearest-neighbor isotropic J of 77 meV between the Ni1+ ions within the a b plane. While we find many similarities in the electronic structure between the nickelate and the cuprate, the role of electronic correlations is profoundly different in the two. We further discuss the implications of our findings in understanding the origin of superconductivity in nickelates.
A crucial step in revealing the nature of unconventional superconductivity is to investigate the symmetry of the superconducting order parameter. Scanning tunneling spectroscopy has proven a powerful ...technique to probe this symmetry by measuring the quasiparticle interference (QPI) which sensitively depends on the superconducting pairing mechanism. A particularly well-suited material to apply this technique is the stoichiometric superconductor LiFeAs as it features clean, charge neutral cleaved surfaces without surface states and a relatively high T(c)∼18 K. Our data reveal that in LiFeAs the quasiparticle scattering is governed by a van Hove singularity at the center of the Brillouin zone which is in stark contrast to other pnictide superconductors where nesting is crucial for both scattering and s(±) superconductivity. Indeed, within a minimal model and using the most elementary order parameters, calculations of the QPI suggest a dominating role of the holelike bands for the quasiparticle scattering. Our theoretical findings do not support the elementary singlet pairing symmetries s(++), s(±), and d wave. This brings to mind that the superconducting pairing mechanism in LiFeAs is based on an unusual pairing symmetry such as an elementary p wave (which provides optimal agreement between the experimental data and QPI simulations) or a more complex order parameter (e.g., s+id wave symmetry).
Thermalization by a synthetic horizon Mertens, Lotte; Moghaddam, Ali G.; Chernyavsky, Dmitry ...
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Synthetic horizons in models for quantum matter provide an alternative route to explore fundamental questions of modern gravitational theory. Here we apply these concepts to the problem of emergence ...of thermal quantum states in the presence of a horizon, by studying ground-state thermalization due to instantaneous horizon creation in a gravitational setting and its condensed matter analog. By a sudden quench to position-dependent hopping amplitudes in a one-dimensional lattice model, we establish the emergence of a thermal state accompanying the formation of a synthetic horizon. The resulting temperature for long chains is shown to be identical to the corresponding Unruh temperature, provided that the postquench Hamiltonian matches the entanglement Hamiltonian of the prequench system. Based on detailed analysis of the outgoing radiation we formulate the conditions required for the synthetic horizon to behave as a purely thermal source, paving a way to explore this interplay of quantum-mechanical and gravitational aspects experimentally.
To exploit the full industrial potential of additive manufacturing (AM) beyond prototyping, the resource-consuming identification of the optimal processing conditions needs to be minimized. This task ...becomes more challenging when multiple properties of the part shall be simultaneously optimized. We utilize machine learning (ML) methods in a case study on laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) of a Zr-based glass-forming alloy. Our experiments show that processing parameters affect density and amorphicity opposingly, demonstrating the efficacy of our ML-based approach. We employ multi-objective optimization using Gaussian Process Regression to model and predict target properties and their uncertainties of parts fabricated by LPBF – a widely used metal AM technology. With density and amorphicity as target parameters, we optimize models using the Pareto front facilitated by the Non-Dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm II. Despite deviations in the amorphicity data, we demonstrate this method to identify the high-performance region of the process parameters and its ability to be iteratively enhanced with additional experimental data. This bi-objective optimization approach provides a robust toolset for navigating LPBF processing. It can be easily extended to a larger set of target properties and transferred to further AM technologies.
The spin Hall effect (SHE), which converts a charge current into a transverse spin current, has long been believed to be a phenomenon induced by spin-orbit coupling. Here, we identify an alternative ...mechanism to realize the intrinsic SHE through a noncollinear magnetic structure that breaks the spin rotation symmetry. No spin-orbit coupling is needed even when the scalar spin chirality vanishes, different from the case of the topological Hall effect and topological SHE reported previously. In known noncollinear antiferromagnetic compounds Mn3X (X = Ga, Ge, and Sn), for example, we indeed obtain large spin Hall conductivities based on ab initio calculations.
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