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Dispersion of low-energy optical excitations in NiPS explained by singlet polaron theory
I. J. Hamad, C. S. Helman, A. E. Feiguin +2
Optical and resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) experiments in the van der Waals antiferromagnet NiPS have revealed narrow excitonic resonances near 1.5 eV whose microsc…
Phase transitions through excited-state level crossings and topological indicators: the case of the XXZ chain with staggered Ising interaction
B. F. Márquez, K. Hallberg, A. A. Aligia
We combine two ways of determining the phase diagram of the spin- XXZ chain with a staggered Ising interaction and uniform transverse exchange, based on exact diagonalization.…
Effect of spin-orbit coupling on spin and orbital ordering in SrCrO,
Cristian Fanjul, A. A. Aligia
We incorporate spin-orbit coupling (SOC) into effective Kugel-Khomskii models for the and members of the Ruddlesden-Popper series SrCrO. These mode…
Probing Boundary Spins in the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger-Hubbard model
Armando A. Aligia, Alejandro M. Lobos, Lucila Peralta Gavensky +1
Studying boundary excitations provides a powerful approach to probe correlations in topological phases. We propose that localized spins near the ends of a Su-Schrieffer-Heeger-Hubb…
Low-energy structure and topology of the two-band Hubbard-Kanamori model
Nayara G. Gusmão, Germán Blesio, Armando Aligia +3
We investigate the Mott transition in a two-band Hubbard-Kanamori model using Dynamical Mean-Field Theory (DMFT) with the Density Matrix Renormalization Group (DMRG) and the Numeri…
Specific heat of Gd and Eu-based magnetic compounds
D. J. Garcia, J. G. Sereni, A. A. Aligia
We have studied theoretically the specific heat of a large number of non-frustrated magnetic structures described by the Heisenberg model for systems with total angular momentum $J…
Structural transition, spontaneous formation of strong singlet dimers and metamagnetism in magnetoelastic spin chains
C. J. Gazza, A. A. Aligia, A. O. Dobry +2
We study a one-dimensional antiferromagnetic-elastic model with magnetic ions having spin . By extensive DMRG computations and complementary analytical methods, we uncover a…
Phase diagram and topology of the XXZ chain with alternating bonds and staggered magnetic field
B. F. Márquez, N. Aucar Boidi, K. Hallberg +1
The XXZ spin-half chain has Heisenberg exchange interactions () in the () direction. The model has a transition from the spin-fluid phase for $-J_\perp < J_…
Anisotropy-driven topological quantum phase transition in magnetic impurities
Germán G. Blesio, Luis O. Manuel, Armando A. Aligia
A few years ago, a topological quantum phase transition (TQPT) has been found in Anderson and Kondo 2-channel spin-1 impurity models that include a hard-axis anisotropy term $DS_z^…
Charge and spin gaps of the ionic Hubbard model with density-dependent hopping
Oscar A. Moreno Segura, Karen Hallberg, Armando A. Aligia
We calculate the charge gap and the spin gap of the ionic Hubbard chain including electron-hole symmetric density-dependent hopping. The vanishing of ()…
Phase diagram of the ionic Hubbard model with density-dependent hopping
P. Roura Bas, A. A. Aligia
We obtain the quantum phase diagram of the ionic Hubbard model including electron-hole symmetric density-dependent hopping. The boundaries of the phases are determined by crossing…
Effective one-band models for the 1D cuprate BaSrCuO
Adrian E. Feiguin, Christian Helman, Armando A. Aligia
We consider a multiband Hubbard model for Cu and O orbitals in BaSrCuO similar to the tree-band model for two-dimensional (2D) cuprates. The hopping param…
Topological quantum phase transition in individual Fe Atoms on MoS/Au(111)
G. G. Blesio, A. A. Aligia
In a recent experiment [Trishin et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 236801 (2021)] a rich physics was observed for Fe atoms on MoS/Au(111), characterized by three different behaviors…
Determination of superexchange interactions for the CuO chains in LiCuO
N. Aucar Boidi, Christian Helman, Y. Núñez-Fernández +2
Starting from \textit{ab-initio} calculations, we derive a five-band Hubbard model to describe the CuO chains of LiCuO. This model is further simplified to a low-energy…
Topological invariants based on generalized position operators and application to the interacting Rice-Mele model
Armando A. Aligia
We discuss different properties and the ability of several topological invariants based on position operators to identify phase transitions, and compare with more accurate methods,…
Topological quantum phase transition of nickelocene on Cu(100)
G. G. Blesio, R. Žitko, L. O. Manuel +1
Local quantum phase transitions driven by Kondo correlations have been theoretically proposed in several magnetic nanosystems; however, clear experimental signatures are scant. Mod…
Low-energy physics for an iron phthalocyanine molecule on Au(111)
A. A. Aligia
The system of an iron phthalocyanine molecule on the Au(111) surface, has been studied recently due to its peculiar properties. In particular, several surprising results of scannin…
Iron phthalocyanine on Au(111) is a "non-Landau" Fermi liquid
R. Žitko, G. G. Blesio, L. O. Manuel +1
The paradigm of Landau's Fermi liquid theory has been challenged with the finding of a strongly interacting Fermi liquid that cannot be adiabatically connected to a non-interacting…
Ginzburg-Landau theory for the magnetic and structural transitions in La(CaSr)MnO
L. M. León Hilario, A. A. Aligia
We present a phenomenological theory for the ferromagnetic transition temperature, the magnetic susceptibility at high temperatures, and the structural distortion in the La…
Comment on "Relevance of Cu-3d multiplet structure in models of high Tc cuprates''
A. A. Aligia
In a recent work [M. Jiang, M. Moeller, M. Berciu, and G. A. Sawatzky, Phys. Rev. B \textbf{101}, 035151 (2020)], the authors solved a model with a Cu impurity in an O-2p band as a…
Destructive quantum interference in transport through molecules with electron-electron and electron-vibration interactions
P. Roura-Bas, F. Güller, L. Tosi +1
We study the transport through a molecular junction exhibiting interference effects. We show that these effects can still be observed in the presence of molecular vibrations if Cou…
Fully compensated Kondo effect for a two-channel spin S=1 impurity
G. G. Blesio, L. O. Manuel, A. A. Aligia +1
We study the low-temperature properties of the generalized Anderson impurity model in which two localized configurations, one with two doublets and the other with a triplet, are mi…
Relation between width of the zero-bias anomaly and Kondo temperaure in transport measurements through correlated quantum dots: Effect of asymmetric coupling to the leads
Diego Pérez Daroca, Pablo Roura-Bas, Armando A. Aligia
The zero-bias anomaly at low temperatures, originated by the Kondo effect when an electric current flows through a system formed by a spin- quantum dot and two metallic contac…
Spin and orbital ordering in bilayer SrCrO
A. A. Aligia, C. Helman
Using maximally localized Wannier functions obtained from DFT calculations, we derive an effective Hubbard Hamiltonian for a bilayer of SrCrO, the member of the R…