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Seiji Miyashita

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arXiv2018

Floquet-Gibbs state in open quantum systems

We study long-time asymptotic states of periodically driven quantum systems coupled to a thermal bath. In order to describe a class of such a system, we introduce the Floquet-Gibbs state, i.e. the state whose density matrix is diagonalized in the basis of the Floquet state of the system Hamiltonian, and its diagonal element obeys the Boltzmann distribution over its Floquet quasienergy. We obtain sufficient conditions for the realization of the Floquet-Gibbs state in a system with infinitesimal system-bath coupling [T. Shirai, et al., Phys. Rev. E 91, 030101 (2015)]. These conditions severely restrict a class of suitable physical models attaining the Floquet-Gibbs state. We also show that some of the conditions can be lifted by imposing conditions on timescales of the thermal bath with the aid of the truncated Floquet Hamiltonian in the Floquet-Magnus expansion [T. Shirai, et al., New Journal of Physics 18, 053008 (2016)]. In this paper we give a overview of this theory and reconsider it by looking at the dynamics from a rotating frame.

cond-mat.stat-mech↗

arXiv2017

Study on Effects of Dipole-dipole Interactions in Nd_2Fe_{14}B thin film Based on Stochastic Cut-off Method with New Efficient Algorithm

We developed a new algorithm for the stochastic cutoff method, which is a Monte Carlo method for long-range interacting systems. The present new algorithm is efficient for complicated lattice structures, e.g., amorphous and also materials with complicated unit cell structure. In addition, it has an advantage in a high temperature region. With the present method, we investigated an atomistic model of the permanent magnet Nd 2 Fe 14 B with dipole-dipole interactions to study the effect of the anisotropy of the Fe ions on the magnetization structure in the thin film system. It has revealed that the anisotropy of the Fe ions plays an important role to maintain the uniaxial magnetization structure at high temperatures.

physics.comp-ph↗

arXiv2017

Nontrivial phase diagram for an elastic interaction model of spin crossover materials with antiferromagnetic-like short-range interactions

We study the phase diagram of an elastic interaction model for spin crossover (SC) materials with antiferromagnetic-like short-range interactions. In this model, the interplay between the short-range interaction and the long-range interaction of elastic origin causes complex phase transitions. For relatively weak elastic interactions, the phase diagram is characterized by tricritical points, at which antiferromagnetic (AF) -like and ferromagnetic (F) -like spinodal lines and a critical line merge. On the other hand, for relatively strong elastic interactions, unusual "horn structures," which are surrounded by the F-like spinodal lines, disorder (D) spinodal lines, and the critical line, are realized at higher temperatures. These structures are similar to those obtained in our previous study [Phys. Rev. B {\bf 93}, 064109 (2016)] of an Ising antiferromagnet with infinite-range ferromagnetic interactions, and we find universal features caused by the interplay between the competing short-range and long-range interactions. The long-range interaction of elastic origin is irrelevant (inessential) for the critical line. In contrast, the AF-like, F-like, and D spinodal lines result from the long-range interaction of elastic origin. This difference causes qualitatively different features of domain formation or nucleation of the new phase: clustering occurs in the former case, while clustering is absent in the latter. Based on the phase diagrams, we discuss the patterns and clustering features of two-step SC transitions, in which the AF-like phase is realized in the intermediate temperature region.

cond-mat.stat-mech↗

arXiv2017

Synergetic effect of spin-orbit coupling and Zeeman splitting on the optical conductivity in the one-dimensional Hubbard model

We study how the synergetic effect of spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and Zeeman splitting (ZS) affects the optical conductivity in the one-dimensional Hubbard model using the Kubo formula. We focus on two phenomena: (1) the electric dipole spin resonance (EDSR) in the metallic regime and (2) the optical conductivity in the Mott-insulating phase above the optical gap. In both cases, we calculate qualitatively the effects of SOC and ZS and how they depend on the relative angle between the SOC vector and the magnetic field direction. First, we investigate the spin resonance without electron correlation (the Hubbard parameter $U=0$). Although, neither SOC nor ZS causes any resonance by itself in the optical conductivity, the EDSR becomes possible when both of them exist. The resulting contribution to the optical conductivity is analyzed analytically. The effect of $U$ on the spin resonance is also studied with a numerical method. It is found that at half-filling, the resonance is first enhanced for small $U$ and then suppressed when the optical gap is large enough. In the strong coupling limit $U \rightarrow \infty$ at half-filling, we also refer to the resonance between the lower and upper Hubbard bands appearing at $ω\sim U$, above the optical gap. A large magnetic field tends to suppress the signal while it is recovered thanks to SOC depending on the relative angle of the magnetic field.

cond-mat.str-el↗

arXiv2017

Distribution of eigenstate populations and dissipative beating dynamics in uniaxial single-spin magnets

Numerical simulations of magnetization reversal of a quantum uniaxial magnet under a swept magnetic field [Hatomura, \textit{et al}., \textit{Quantum Stoner-Wohlfarth Model}, Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{116}, 037203 (2016)] are extended. In particular, how the "wave packet" describing the time-evolution of the system is scattered in the successive avoided level crossings is investigated from the viewpoint of the distribution of the eigenstate populations. It is found that the peak of the distribution as a function of the magnetic field does not depend on spin-size $S$, which indicates that the delay of magnetization reversal due to the finite sweeping rate is the same in both the quantum and classical cases. The peculiar synchronized oscillations of all the spin components result in the beating of the spin-length. Here, dissipative effects on this beating are studied by making use of the generalized Lindblad-type master equation. The corresponding experimental situations are also discussed in order to find conditions for experimental observations.

cond-mat.mes-hall↗

arXiv2016

Monte Carlo analysis for finite temperature magnetism of Nd$_2$Fe$_{14}$B permanent magnet

We investigate the effects of magnetic inhomogeneities and thermal fluctuations on the magnetic properties of a rare earth intermetallic compound, Nd$_2$Fe$_{14}$B. The constrained Monte Carlo method is applied to a Nd$_2$Fe$_{14}$B bulk system to realize the experimentally observed spin reorientation and magnetic anisotropy constants $K^{\rm A}_m (m=1, 2, 4)$ at finite temperatures. % Subsequently, it is found that the temperature dependence of $K^{\rm A}_1$ deviates from the Callen--Callen law, $K^{\rm A}_1(T) \propto M(T)^3$, even above room temperature, $T_{\rm R}\sim 300\rm\, K$, when the Fe (Nd) anisotropy terms are removed to leave only the Nd (Fe) anisotropy terms. This is because the exchange couplings between Nd moments and Fe spins are much smaller than those between Fe spins. % It is also found that the exponent $n$ in the external magnetic field $H_{\rm ext}$ response of barrier height $\mathcal{F}_{\rm B}=\mathcal{F}_{\rm B}^0(1-H_{\rm ext}/H_0)^n$ is less than $2$ in the low-temperature region below $T_{\rm R}$, whereas $n$ approaches $2$ when $T>T_{\rm R}$, indicating the presence of Stoner--Wohlfarth-type magnetization rotation. This reflects the fact that the magnetic anisotropy is mainly governed by the $K^{\rm A}_1$ term in the $T>T_{\rm R}$ region.

cond-mat.mtrl-sci↗

arXiv2016

Temperature- and Size-dependence of Line shape of ESR spectra of XXZ antiferromagnetic chain

The ESR (Electron Spin Resonance) spectrum of the XXZ spin chain with finite length shows a double-peak structure at high temperatures around the EPR (Electron Paramagnetic Resonance) resonance frequency. This fact has been pointed out by direct numerical methods (S. El Shawish, O. Cepas and S. Miyashita; H. Ikeuchi, H. De Raedt, S. Bertaina and S. Miyashita). On the other hand, at low temperatures the spectrum has a single peak with a finite shift from the frequency of EPR as predicted by the analysis of field theoretical works (M. Oshikawa and I. Affleck). We study how the spectrum changes with the temperature, and also we study the size-dependence of the line shape including the even-odd effect. In order to understand those dependences, we introduce a decomposition of the spectrum into contributions from transitions specified by magnetization, and we characterize the structure of the spectrum by individual contributions. Applying the moment method introduced by M. Brockman et al., to each component, we analyze the size-dependence of the structure of the spectrum, which supports the numerical observation that separation of the double-peak structure vanishes inversely with the size.

cond-mat.stat-mech↗

arXiv2016

Temperature dependence of the threshold magnetic field for nucleation and domain wall propagation in an inhomogeneous structure with grain boundary

In order to study the dependence of the coercive force of sintered magnets on temperature, nucleation and domain wall propagation at the grain boundary are studied as rate-determining processes of the magnetization reversal phenomena in magnets consisting of bulk hard magnetic grains contacting via grain boundaries of a soft magnetic material. These systems have been studied analytically for a continuum model at zero temperature (A. Sakuma, et al. J. Mag. Mag. Mat. {\bf 84} 52 (1990)). In the present study, the temperature dependence is studied by making use of the stochastic Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation at finite temperatures. In particular, the threshold fields for nucleation and domain wall propagation are obtained as functions of ratios of magnetic interactions and anisotropies of the soft and hard magnets for various temperatures. It was found that the threshold field for domain wall propagation is robust against thermal fluctuations, while that for nucleation is fragile. The microscopic mechanisms of the observed temperature dependence are discussed.

cond-mat.mtrl-sci↗

arXiv2016

Effective Floquet-Gibbs states for dissipative quantum systems

A periodically driven quantum system, when coupled to a heat bath, relaxes to a non-equilibrium asymptotic state. In the general situation, the retrieval of this asymptotic state presents a rather non-trivial task. It was recently shown that in the limit of an infinitesimal coupling, using so-called rotating wave approximation (RWA), and under strict conditions imposed on the time-dependent system Hamiltonian, the asymptotic state can attain the Gibbs form. A Floquet-Gibbs state is characterized by a density matrix which is diagonal in the Floquet basis of the system Hamiltonian with the diagonal elements obeying a Gibbs distribution, being parametrized by the corresponding Floquet quasi-energies. Addressing the non-adiabatic driving regime, upon using the Magnus expansion, we employ the concept of a corresponding effective Floquet Hamiltonian. In doing so we go beyond the conventionally used RWA and demonstrate that the idea of Floquet-Gibbs states can be extended to the realistic case of a weak, although finite system-bath coupling, herein termed effective Floquet-Gibbs states.

cond-mat.stat-mech↗

arXiv2016

Two-step asymptotics of scaled Dunkl processes

Dunkl processes are generalizations of Brownian motion obtained by using the differential-difference operators known as Dunkl operators as a replacement of spatial partial derivatives in the heat equation. Special cases of these processes include Dyson's Brownian motion model and the Wishart-Laguerre eigenvalue processes, which are well-known in random matrix theory. It is known that the dynamics of Dunkl processes is obtained by transforming the heat kernel using Dunkl's intertwining operator. It is also known that, under an appropriate scaling, their distribution function converges to a steady-state distribution which depends only on the coupling parameter $β$ as the process time $t$ tends to infinity. We study scaled Dunkl processes starting from an arbitrary initial distribution, and we derive expressions for the intertwining operator in order to calculate the asymptotics of the distribution function in two limiting situations. In the first one, $β$ is fixed and $t$ tends to infinity (approach to the steady state), and in the second one, $t$ is fixed and $β$ tends to infinity (strong-coupling limit). We obtain the deviations from the limiting distributions in both of the above situations, and we find that they are caused by the two different mechanisms which drive the process, namely, the drift and exchange mechanisms. We find that the deviation due to the drift mechanism decays as $t^{-1}$, while the deviation due to the exchange mechanism decays as $t^{-1/2}$.

math-ph↗

arXiv2015

Termination of the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless phase with a new critical universality in spin-crossover systems

Two dimensional systems with U(1) symmetry exhibit a peculiar phase, i.e., the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) phase. In particular situations, the BKT phase exists as an intermediate temperature phase. There have been scenarios for the phase transitions at the two endpoints of the intermediate BKT phase, i.e., the phase transition at the low-temperature endpoint is a BKT transition and that at the high-temperature endpoint is either a BKT transition or a first-order transition. The present study gives a novel scenario, i.e., a second-order transition with a new critical universality and a BKT transition. We found that this new phase transition is realized in spin-crossover systems on a triangular lattice with an antiferromagnetic short-range interaction. At the low-temperature transition the elastic interaction plays as a ferromagnetic infinite-range interaction and encourages the breaking of $Z_2$ symmetry between high-spin rich and low-spin rich states.

cond-mat.stat-mech↗

arXiv2015

Effect of the short-range interaction on critical phenomena in elastic interaction systems

The elastic interaction, induced by the lattice distortion due to the difference of the molecular size, causes an effective long-range interaction. In spin-crossover (SC) compounds, local bistable states, i.e., high-spin and low-spin states have different molecular sizes, and the elastic interaction is important. In bipartite lattices, e.g., the square lattice, the ground state can be two types of phases: ferromagnetic-like (FM) and antiferromagnetic-like (AFM) phases. In systems like SC compounds, the former phase consists of all small or large molecules, and the latter phase has the configuration of alternating small and large molecules. In fact, both cases are observed in SC systems. In this paper, we have studied the effect of the short-range interaction in the elastic system on the properties of those order-disorder phase transitions. We have obtained a phase diagram in the coordinates of the temperature and the strength of the short-range interaction, including the metastable structures. We show that effects of the short-range interaction are essentially different for FM and AFM phase transitions. In the FM transition, the long-range interaction of elasticity is relevant, and the system exhibits a phase transition in the mean-filed universality class. In this case, the long-range interaction strongly enhances the FM order, and it works cooperatively with the short-range interaction. In contrast, in the AFM transition, the elastic interaction slightly enhances the AFM order, but essentially it does not contribute to the ordering, and the system shows a transition in the Ising universality class. We have found that in the border region between FM and AFM phases, the AFM phase has an advantage at finite temperatures. We discuss the critical properties of two-step SC transitions with comparison between the elastic interaction model and conventional SC models (Ising-like models).

cond-mat.stat-mech↗

arXiv2015

Realization of the thermal equilibrium in inhomogeneous magnetic systems by the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation with stochastic noise, and its dynamical aspects

It is crucially important to investigate effects of temperature on magnetic properties such as critical phenomena, nucleation, pinning, domain wall motion, coercivity, etc. The Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert (LLG) equation has been applied extensively to study dynamics of magnetic properties. Approaches of Langevin noises have been developed to introduce the temperature effect into the LLG equation. To have the thermal equilibrium state (canonical distribution) as the steady state, the system parameters must satisfy some condition known as the fluctuation-dissipation relation. In inhomogeneous magnetic systems in which spin magnitudes are different at sites, the condition requires that the ratio between the amplitude of the random noise and the damping parameter depends on the magnitude of the magnetic moment at each site. Focused on inhomogeneous magnetic systems, we systematically showed agreement between the stationary state of the stochastic LLG equation and the corresponding equilibrium state obtained by Monte Carlo simulations in various magnetic systems including dipole-dipole interactions. We demonstrated how violations of the condition result in deviations from the true equilibrium state. We also studied the characteristic features of the dynamics depending on the choice of the parameter set. All the parameter sets satisfying the condition realize the same stationary state (equilibrium state). In contrast, different choices of parameter set cause seriously different relaxation processes. We show two relaxation types, i.e., magnetization reversals with uniform rotation and with nucleation.

cond-mat.mtrl-sci↗

arXiv2015

Numerical study on ESR by making use of Wiener-Khinchin relation in time domain

To evaluate ESR spectrum at finite temperatures for specified spatial configurations of spins is very important issue to study quantum spin systems. Although a direct numerical estimation of the Kubo formula provides exact data, the application is limited to small size of the system because of the restriction of the computer capacity. The method of the Fourier transform of the autocorrelation function improved the restriction. As an extension of the method, we propose a new method for numerical calculation of the ESR spectrum from the time evolution of the magnetization by making use of the Wiener-Khinchin theorem.

cond-mat.stat-mech↗

arXiv2015

Quantum Stoner-Wohlfarth model

The quantum mechanical counterpart of the famous Stoner-Wohlfarth model -- an easy-axis magnet in a tilted magnetic field -- is studied theoretically and through simulations, as a function of the spin-size $S$ in a sweeping longitudinal field. Beyond the classical Stoner-Wohlfarth transition, the sweeping field-induced adiabatic change of states slows down as $S$ increases, leading to a dynamical quantum phase transition. This result is described as a critical phenomenon associated with Landau-Zener tunneling gaps at metastable quasi-avoided crossings. Furthermore, a beating of the magnetization is discovered after the Stoner-Wohlfarth transition. The period of the beating, obtained analytically, arises from a new type of quantum phase factor.

cond-mat.stat-mech↗

arXiv2015

Condition for emergence of the Floquet-Gibbs state in periodically driven open systems

We study probability distribution of a steady state of a periodically driven system coupled to a thermal bath by using a quantum master equation in the weak coupling limit. It is proved that, even when the external field is strong, the probability distribution is independent of the detailed nature of the thermal bath under the following conditions: (i) the Hamiltonian of the relevant system is bounded and the period of the driving field is short, (ii) the Hamiltonians for the driving field at different times commute, and (iii) the Hamiltonians of the driving field and of the interaction between the relevant system and the thermal bath commute. It is shown that the steady state is described by the Gibbs distribution of the Floquet states of the relevant system at the temperature of the thermal bath.

cond-mat.stat-mech↗

arXiv2015

Doping control of realization of an extended Nagaoka ferromagnetic state from the Mott state

Inspired by the Nagaoka ferromagnetism, we propose an itinerant model to study the transition between the Mott singlet state and a ferromagnetic state by emulating a doping process in finite lattices. In the Nagaoka ferromagnetism, the total spin of the system takes the maximum value when an electron is removed from the half-filled system. To incorporate a procedure of the electron removal, our model contains extra sites as a reservoir of electrons, and the chemical potential of the reservoir controls the distribution of electrons. As a function of the chemical potential, the system exhibits ground-state phase transitions among various values of the total spin, including a saturated ferromagnetic state due to the Nagaoka mechanism at finite hole density. We discuss the nature of the ferromagnetism by measuring various physical quantities, such as the distribution of electrons, the spin correlation functions, the magnetization process in the magnetic field, and also the entanglement entropy.

cond-mat.str-el↗

arXiv2014

Quantum Annealing for Clustering

This paper studies quantum annealing (QA) for clustering, which can be seen as an extension of simulated annealing (SA). We derive a QA algorithm for clustering and propose an annealing schedule, which is crucial in practice. Experiments show the proposed QA algorithm finds better clustering assignments than SA. Furthermore, QA is as easy as SA to implement.

cs.AI↗