{"title":"Unusual spin dynamics in the van der Waals antiferromagnet FeGa<sub>2</sub>S<sub>4</sub>.","authors":"Yifei Tang, Yoshihiko Umemoto, Yo Kawamoto, Masahiro Kawamata, Shinichiro Asai, Yoichi Ikeda, Masaki Fujita, Yusuke Nambu","doi":"10.1088/1361-648X/ad861a","DOIUrl":"10.1088/1361-648X/ad861a","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Spin dynamics in the van der Waals antiferromagnet FeGa<sub>2</sub>S<sub>4</sub>with triangular lattices are investigated using magnetometry, neutron scattering, and muon spin relaxation measurements. The characteristic spin relaxation time is thoroughly clarified over thirteen orders of magnitude. Although the temperature dependence of DC and AC susceptibilities recalls a conventional spin-glass transition, nonlinear susceptibilities showing no divergences at the anomalous temperature,T∗=16.87(7) K, deny that and instead hint at other mechanisms. Elastic neutron scattering together with previously measured muon results depict a slowly fluctuated (∼10-5 s) spin state aboveT∗. In juxtaposing the underlying simplest structure among frustrated magnets with an intricate hierarchy of time scales, FeGa<sub>2</sub>S<sub>4</sub>can be a playground for studying temporal spin correlations in the two-dimensional limit.</p>","PeriodicalId":16776,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142406529","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What can we learn from the experiment of electrostatic conveyor belt for excitons?","authors":"T T Zhao, Rui Li, C S Liu","doi":"10.1088/1361-648X/ad81a7","DOIUrl":"10.1088/1361-648X/ad81a7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Motivated by the experiment of electrostatic conveyor belt for indirect excitons (Winbow<i>et al</i>2011<i>Phys. Rev. Lett.</i><b>106</b>196806), we studied the exciton patterns for understanding the exciton dynamics. By analyzing the exciton diffusion, we found that the patterns mainly came from the photoluminescence of two kinds of excitons. The patterns near the laser spot came from the hot excitons which can be regarded as the classical particles. However, the patterns far from the laser spot come from the cooled or coherent excitons. Considering the finite lifetime of Bosonic excitons and of the interactions between them, we built a time-dependent nonlinear Schrödinger equation including the non-Hermitian dissipation to describe the coherent exciton dynamics. The real-time and imaginary-time evolutions were used alternately to solve the Schrödinger equation to simulate the exciton diffusion accompanied by the exciton cooling in the moving lattices. By calculating the escape probability, we obtained the transport distances of the coherent excitons in the conveyor, consistent with the experimental data. The cooling speed of excitons was found to be important in coherent exciton transport. Moreover, the plateau in the average transport distance cannot be explained by the dynamical localization-delocalization transition induced by the disorders.</p>","PeriodicalId":16776,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142348893","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Layer-number and strain effects on the structural and electronic properties of PtSe<sub>2</sub>material.","authors":"Rania Amairi, Adlen Smiri, Sihem Jaziri","doi":"10.1088/1361-648X/ad8697","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-648X/ad8697","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Bandgap engineering of low-dimensional materials forms a robust basis for advancements in optoelectronic technologies. Platinum diselenide (PtSe<sub>2</sub>) material exhibits a transition from semi-metal to semiconductor (SM-SC) when going from bulk to monolayer. In this work, density functional theory (DFT) with various van der Waals (vdW) corrections has been tested to study the effect of the layer-number on the structural and electronic properties of the PtSe<sub>2</sub>material. The considered vdW corrections gave different results regarding the number of layers at which the SM-SC transition occurs. This variation is due to the different interlayer distances found for each correction, revealing the sensitivity of the bandgap to this distance in addition to the layer number. In fact, the bandgap increases with the increasing of the interlayer distance, due to the energy shift of conduction and valence bands dominated by Se-<i>p<sub>z</sub></i>orbitals. According to the comparison with the available experimental data, the vdW corrections vdW-DF and rVV10 gave the most accurate results. Moreover, the control of the interlayer distance via vertical compressive strain led to the bandgap tuning of semiconductor PtSe<sub>2</sub>BL. Indeed, a semi-metal character of PtSe<sub>2</sub>BL can be obtained under 17% vertical strain. Our work shows a deep understanding of the correlation between the structural and electronic properties, and thus a possibility to tune the bandgap by strain means.</p>","PeriodicalId":16776,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter","volume":"37 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142502600","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nicolas Gauriot, Raj Pandya, Jack Alexander-Webber, Akshay Rao
{"title":"Isolation and characterisation of monolayer phosphorene analogues.","authors":"Nicolas Gauriot, Raj Pandya, Jack Alexander-Webber, Akshay Rao","doi":"10.1088/1361-648X/ad81a1","DOIUrl":"10.1088/1361-648X/ad81a1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Atomically thin group IV monochalcogenides or phosphorene analogues are a promising family of materials. Theoretical calculations predict that monolayers (MLs) should be semiconducting, ferroelectric and ferroelastic at room temperature, exhibit large charge mobilities and large non-linear optical response. Yet, experimental studies of these systems are scarce because of the difficulty to produce such MLs. Here we focus on two members of this family: GeSe and SnS. We demonstrate a simple mechanical exfoliation method to produce ML samples on gold substrates. We observe the evolution of the Raman scattering as a function of layers and the anisotropic optical response from reflectance contrast measurements. To the best of our knowledge this is the first report of mechanical exfoliation down to the ML of these materials and the first realisation of ML GeSe.</p>","PeriodicalId":16776,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142348882","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Special-point approach for optical absorption coefficient calculations on two-dimensional self-assemblies of type-II perovskite quantum dots.","authors":"C I Cabrera, R Pérez-Álvarez","doi":"10.1088/1361-648X/ad8716","DOIUrl":"10.1088/1361-648X/ad8716","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>All-inorganic perovskite quantum dots with the usual cubic shape have emerged as a successful and low-cost alternative to electronically functional nanomaterials motivating various fields of applications, including high-efficiency photovoltaics. Here, we present an efficient and almost analytic approach for optical absorption coefficient calculation on self-assembled perovskite quantum dot films with type-II band alignment. The approach takes advantage of the special point technique for integration over the two-dimensional Brillouin zone, which minimizes the computational cost. The set of special wave-vector points is generated using the Monkhorst and Pack method. The optical absorption spectrum for phenyl-C60-butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM)/CsPbI<sub>3</sub>quantum dot films is computed, in good agreement with the experiment assuming a homogeneous linewidth of 50 meV and considering a ten special-point set. We show that light absorption in these systems is a cooperative optoelectronic property resulting from the quantum-mechanical coupling between perovskite nanocubes, leading to extended system states. The generality of this approach makes it suitable for calculating the optical absorption coefficient in a broad class of perovskite quantum dot systems.</p>","PeriodicalId":16776,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142468306","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multivariate growth analysis on D0<sub>19</sub>-phase Mn<sub>3</sub>Ga kagome-based topological antiferromagnets.","authors":"Wei-Chih Chang, Anqi Cheng, Yangjun Gao, Feiya Xu, Xu Li, Yaping Wu, Zhiming Wu, Junyong Kang","doi":"10.1088/1361-648X/ad81a4","DOIUrl":"10.1088/1361-648X/ad81a4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The combination of antiferromagnetism and topological properties in Mn<sub>3</sub>X (X = Sn,Ge,Ga) offers a unique platform to explore novel spin-dependent phenomena and develop innovative spintronic devices. Here, we have systematically investigated the phase transition of Mn<sub>3</sub>Ga thin films on SiO<sub>2</sub>(001)/Si substrates under various growth parameters such as seeding layer structure, annealing conditions, and film thickness. The relatively thick Mn<sub>3</sub>Ga films grown with Ru seeding exhibit a variety of polycrystalline hexagonal phases, including (002), and (201). The addition of a Ta layer to the conventional Ru seeding layer promotes the formation of nearly single-crystal antiferromagnetic (AF) Mn<sub>3</sub>Ga(002) phase from the relatively thin Mn<sub>3</sub>Ga films after annealing at 773 K. The investigation of the growth mechanism of Mn<sub>3</sub>Ga polycrystalline thin films provides a reference strategy for exploring Mn-based AF spintronic devices.</p>","PeriodicalId":16776,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142348884","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Deciphering competing interactions of Kitaev-Heisenberg-Γ system in clusters: II. Dynamics of Majorana fermions.","authors":"Sheikh Moonsun Pervez, Saptarshi Mandal","doi":"10.1088/1361-648X/ad841b","DOIUrl":"10.1088/1361-648X/ad841b","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We perform a systematic and exact study of Majorana fermion dynamics in the Kitaev-Heisenberg-Γ model in a few finite-size clusters increasing in size up to twelve sites. We employ exact Jordan-Wigner transformations to evaluate certain measures of Majorana fermion correlation functions, which effectively capture matter and gauge Majorana fermion dynamics in different parameter regimes. An external magnetic field is shown to produce a profound effect on gauge fermion dynamics. Depending on certain non-zero choices of other non-Kitaev interactions, it can stabilise it to its non-interacting Kitaev limit. For all the parameter regimes, gauge fermions are seen to have slower dynamics, which could help build approximate decoupling schemes for appropriate mean-field theory. The probability of Majorana fermions returning to their original starting site shows that the Kitaev model in small clusters can be used as a test bed for the quantum speed limit.</p>","PeriodicalId":16776,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142391361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fundamental theory of current-induced motion of magnetic skyrmions.","authors":"Yuto Ohki, Masahito Mochizuki","doi":"10.1088/1361-648X/ad861b","DOIUrl":"10.1088/1361-648X/ad861b","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Magnetic skyrmions are topological spin textures that appear in magnets with broken spatial inversion symmetry as a consequence of competition between the (anti)ferromagnetic exchange interactions and the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions in a magnetic field. In the research of spintronics, the current-driven dynamics of skyrmions has been extensively studied aiming at their applications to next-generation spintronic devices. However, current-induced skyrmion motion exhibits diverse behaviors depending on various factors and conditions such as the type of skyrmion, driving mechanism, system geometry, direction of applied current, and type of the magnet. While this variety attracts enormous research interest of fundamental science and enriches their possibilities of technical applications, it is, at the same time, a source of difficulty and complexity that hinders their comprehensive understandings. In this article, we discuss fundamental and systematic theoretical descriptions of current-induced motion of skyrmions driven by the spin-transfer torque and the spin-orbit torque. Specifically, we theoretically describe the behaviors of current-driven skyrmions depending on the factors and conditions mentioned above by means of analyses using the Thiele equation. Furthermore, the results of the analytical theory are visually demonstrated and quantitatively confirmed by micromagnetic simulations using the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert-Slonczewski equation. In particular, we discuss dependence of the direction and velocity of motion on the type of skyrmion (Bloch type and Néel type) and its helicity, the system geometry (thin plate and nanotrack), the direction of applied current (length and width direction of the nanotrack) and its spin-polarization orientation, and the type of magnet (ferromagnet and antiferromagnet). The comprehensive theory provided by this article is expected to contribute significantly to research on the manipulation and control of magnetic skyrmions by electric currents for future spintronics applications.</p>","PeriodicalId":16776,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142406527","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Non-equilibrium dynamic hyperuniform states.","authors":"Yusheng Lei, Ran Ni","doi":"10.1088/1361-648X/ad83a0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-648X/ad83a0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Disordered hyperuniform structures are an exotic state of matter having suppressed density fluctuations at large length-scale similar to perfect crystals and quasicrystals but without any long range orientational order. In the past decade, an increasing number of non-equilibrium systems were found to have dynamic hyperuniform states, which have emerged as a new research direction coupling both non-equilibrium physics and hyperuniformity. Here we review the recent progress in understanding dynamic hyperuniform states found in various non-equilibrium systems, including the critical hyperuniformity in absorbing phase transitions, non-equilibrium hyperuniform fluids and the hyperuniform structures in phase separating systems via spinodal decomposition.</p>","PeriodicalId":16776,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter","volume":"37 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142468313","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shiya Chen, Feng Zheng, Zhen Zhang, Shunqing Wu, Kai-Ming Ho, Vladimir Antropov, Yang Sun
{"title":"Computational electron-phonon superconductivity: from theoretical physics to material science.","authors":"Shiya Chen, Feng Zheng, Zhen Zhang, Shunqing Wu, Kai-Ming Ho, Vladimir Antropov, Yang Sun","doi":"10.1088/1361-648X/ad81a3","DOIUrl":"10.1088/1361-648X/ad81a3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The search for room-temperature superconductors is a major challenge in modern physics. The discovery of copper-oxide superconductors in 1986 brought hope but also revealed complex mechanisms that are difficult to analyze and compute. In contrast, the traditional electron-phonon coupling (EPC) mechanism facilitated the practical realization of superconductivity (SC) in metallic hydrogen. Since 2015, the discovery of new hydrogen compounds has shown that EPC can enable room-temperature SC under high pressures, driving extensive research. Advances in computational capabilities, especially exascale computing, now allow for the exploration of millions of materials. This paper reviews newly predicted superconducting systems in 2023-2024, focusing on hydrides, boron-carbon systems, and compounds with nitrogen, carbon, and pure metals. Although many computationally predicted high-<i>T</i><sub>c</sub>superconductors were not experimentally confirmed, some low-temperature superconductors were successfully synthesized. This paper provides a review of these developments and future research directions.</p>","PeriodicalId":16776,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142348876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}