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Taras Hutak

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Manipulation of electromagnetic wave propagation in quantum-spin-chain medium

We consider a simple model of one-dimensional magnetic crystal and examine the propagation of an electromagnetic wave through such a medium. Calculating the dispersion relation ${\bf k}(\omega)$ allows us to illustrate how the spread of the electromagnetic wave can be controlled by an external magnetic field. Our rigorous calculations should be useful for more realistic (and less tractable mathematically) models of magnetic media.

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Thermodynamics of the $S=1/2$ maple-leaf Heisenberg antiferromagnet

The Heisenberg antiferromagnet on the maple-leaf lattice has recently gathered a great deal of attention. Competition between three nonequivalent bond interactions results in various ground-state quantum phases, the exact dimer-product singlet ground state being among them. The thermodynamic properties of this model are much less understood. We used high-temperature expansion up to the $18$th order to study the thermodynamics of the $S=1/2$ Heisenberg model on the uniform maple-leaf lattice with the ground state exhibiting a six-sublattice $120^{\circ}$ long-range magnetic order. Padé approximants allow us to get reliable results up to the temperatures of about $T\approx 0.4$. To study thermodynamics for arbitrary temperatures, we made the interpolation using the entropy method. Based on the analysis of close Padé approximants, we find ground-state energy $e_{0}=-0.53064\ldots -0.53023$ in good agreement with numerical results. The specific heat $c(T)$ has a typical maximum at rather low temperatures $T\approx0.379$ and the uniform susceptibility $χ(T)$ at $T\approx0.49$. We also estimate the value of $χ(T)$ at zero temperature $χ_{0}\approx0.05\ldots0.06$. The ground-state order manifests itself in the divergence of the so-called generalized Wilson ratio.

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Frustrated kagome-lattice bilayer quantum Heisenberg antiferromagnet

We consider the $S=1/2$ antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model on a frustrated kagome-lattice bilayer with strong nearest-neighbor interlayer coupling and examine its low-temperature magnetothermodynamics using a mapping onto a rhombi gas on the kagome lattice. Besides, we use finite-size numerics to illustrate the validity of the classical lattice-gas description. Among our findings there are i) the absence of an order-disorder phase transition and ii) the sensitivity of the specific heat at low temperatures to the shape of the system just below the saturation magnetic field even in the thermodynamic limit.

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Thermodynamics of the $S=1/2$ hyperkagome-lattice Heisenberg antiferromagnet

The $S=1/2$ hyperkagome-lattice Heisenberg antiferromagnet allows to study the interplay of geometrical frustration and quantum as well as thermal fluctuations in three dimensions. We use 16 terms of a high-temperature series expansion complemented by the entropy-method interpolation to examine the specific heat and the uniform susceptibility of this model. We obtain thermodynamic quantities for several possible scenarios determined by the behavior of the specific heat as $T\to 0$: A power-law decay with the exponent $α=1,2$ and also $3$ (gapless energy spectrum) or an exponential decay (gapped energy spectrum). All scenarios give rise to a low-temperature peak in $c(T)$ (almost a shoulder for $α=1$) at $T<0.05$, i.e., well below the main high-temperature peak. The functional form of the uniform susceptibility $χ(T)$ below about $T=0.5$ depends strongly not only on the chosen scenario but also on an input parameter $χ_0\equivχ(T=0)$. An estimate for the ground-state energy $e_0$ depends on the adopted specific scenario but is expected to lie between $-0.441$ and $-0.435$. In addition to the entropy-method interpolation we use the finite-temperature Lanczos method to calculate $c(T)$ and $χ(T)$ for finite lattices of $N=24$ and $36$ sites. A combined view on both methods leads us to favor the gapless scenario with $α=2$ (but $α=1$ cannot be excluded) and finite $χ_0$ around $0.1$.

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Spin-half Heisenberg antiferromagnet on a symmetric sawtooth chain: Rotation-invariant Green's functions and high-temperature series

We apply the rotation-invariant Green's function method to study the finite-temperature properties of a $S{=}1/2$ sawtooth-chain (also called $Δ$-chain) antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model at the fully frustrated point when the exchange couplings along the straight-line and zig-zag paths are equal. We also use 13 terms of high-temperature expansion series and interpolation methods to get thermodynamic quantities for this model. We check the obtained predictions for observable quantities by comparison with numerics for finite systems. Although our work refers to a one-dimensional case, the utilized methods work in higher dimensions too and are applicable for examining other frustrated quantum spin lattice systems at finite temperatures.

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Quantum Heisenberg model on a sawtooth-chain lattice: Rotation-invariant Green's function method

We apply the rotation-invariant Green's function method (RGM) to study the spin $S=1/2$ Heisenberg model on a one-dimensional sawtooth lattice, which has two nonequivalent sites in the unit cell. We check the RGM predictions for observable quantities by comparison with the exact-diagonalization and finite-temperature-Lanczos calculations. We discuss the thermodynamic and dynamic properties of this model in relation to the mineral atacamite Cu$_2$Cl(OH)$_3$ complementing the RGM outcomes by results of other approaches.

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Tunneling maps of interacting electrons in real time: anomalous tunneling in quantum point-contacts beyond the steady state regime

Strongly correlated transport of interacting electrons through the one-dimensional tunnel contact is considered within the Luttinger liquid model of one-dimensional electrodes on arbitrary time scales $ t> \hbar /Λ_{g} $. Using previous results, namely, the Self-equilibration theorem proven in Ref.[G.Skorobagatko, Ann.Phys., 422, 168298 (2020)] the exact distribution functions $ P(N,t) $ for the probabilities of $ N $ electrons to tunnel through the contact during the fixed time interval $ t $ are derived and plotted as 3D intensity graphs called real-time tunneling maps in a whole available region of Luttinger liquid correlation parameter values, bias voltages, and temperatures. The tunneling maps being obtained reveal tunneling anomalies -unusually high tunneling probabilities for the small numbers of electrons on the short-time scales beyond the steady state regime of electron tunnel transport. Especially, this concerns the case of strong short-range electron-electron interaction in the leads at $ g \lesssim 1/2 $. The effect being found can be treated as the direct consequence of the self-equilibration phenomenon. It is shown that features of such an anomalous electron tunneling beoynd the steady state regime can be used for precise experimental measurements of small differences between Luttinger liquid correlation parameter values in different one-dimensional quantum-point contacts.

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Low-temperature thermodynamics of the two-leg ladder Ising model with trimer rungs: A mystery explained

Recently, a surprising low-temperature behavior has been revealed in a two-leg ladder Ising model with trimer rungs (Weiguo Yin, arXiv:2006.08921). Motivated by these findings, we study this model from another perspective and demonstrate that the reported observations are related to a critical phenomenon in the standard Ising chain. We also discuss a related curiosity, namely, the emergence of a power-law behavior characterized by quasicritical exponents.

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Adapting Planck's route to investigate the thermodynamics of the spin-half pyrochlore Heisenberg antiferromagnet

The spin-half pyrochlore Heisenberg antiferromagnet (PHAF) is one of the most challenging problems in the field of highly frustrated quantum magnetism. Stimulated by the seminal paper of M.~Planck [M.~Planck, Verhandl. Dtsch. phys. Ges. {\bf 2}, 202-204 (1900)] we calculate thermodynamic properties of this model by interpolating between the low- and high-temperature behavior. For that we follow ideas developed in detail by B.~Bernu and G.~Misguich and use for the interpolation the entropy exploiting sum rules [the ``entropy method'' (EM)]. We complement the EM results for the specific heat, the entropy, and the susceptibility by corresponding results obtained by the finite-temperature Lanczos method (FTLM) for a finite lattice of $N=32$ sites as well as by the high-temperature expansion (HTE) data. We find that due to pronounced finite-size effects the FTLM data for $N=32$ are not representative for the infinite system below $T \approx 0.7$. A similar restriction to $T \gtrsim 0.7$ holds for the HTE designed for the infinite PHAF. By contrast, the EM provides reliable data for the whole temperature region for the infinite PHAF. We find evidence for a gapless spectrum leading to a power-law behavior of the specific heat at low $T$ and for a single maximum in $c(T)$ at $T\approx 0.25$. For the susceptibility $χ(T)$ we find indications of a monotonous increase of $χ$ upon decreasing of $T$ reaching $χ_0 \approx 0.1$ at $T=0$. Moreover, the EM allows to estimate the ground-state energy to $e_0\approx -0.52$.

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Towards low-temperature peculiarities of thermodynamic quantities for decorated spin chains

We discuss the origin of an enigmatic low-temperature behavior of one-dimensional decorated spin systems which was coined the pseudo-transition. Tracing out the decorated parts results in the standard Ising-chain model with temperature-dependent parameters and the unexpected low-temperature behavior of thermodynamic quantities and correlations of the decorated spin chains can be tracked down to the critical point of the standard Ising-chain model at ${\sf H}=0$ and ${\sf T}=0$. We illustrate this perspective using as examples the spin-1/2 Ising-XYZ diamond chain, the coupled spin-electron double-tetrahedral chain, and the spin-1/2 Ising-Heisenberg double-tetrahedral chain.

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