We argue that the newly discovered superconductivity in a nearly magnetic, Fe-based layered compound is unconventional and mediated by antiferromagnetic spin fluctuations, though different from the usual superexchange and specific to this compound. This resulting state is an example of extended s-wave pairing with a sign reversal of the order parameter between different Fermi surface sheets. Th...

Quantum melting of spin ice is proposed for pyrochlore-lattice magnets Pr2TM2O7 (TM=Ir, Zr, and Sn). The quantum superexchange Hamiltonian having a nontrivial magnetic anisotropy is derived on the basis of atomic non-Kramers magnetic doublets. The ground states exhibit a cooperative ferroquadrupole and pseudospin chirality, forming a magnetic analog of smectic liquid crystals. Our theory accoun...

Quantum corrals present interesting properties due to the combination of confinement and, in the case of elliptical corrals, to their focalizing properties. We study the case when two magnetic impurities are added to the non-interacting corral, where they interact via a superexchange AF interaction J with the surface electrons in the ellipse. Previous results showed that, when both impurities a...

We report the revised crystal structure, static and dynamic magnetic properties of quasi-two dimensional honeycomb-lattice silver delafossite Ag3Co2SbO6. The magnetic susceptibility and specific heat data are consistent with the onset of antiferromagnetic long range order at low temperatures with Néel temperature TN ∼ 21.2 K. In addition, the magnetization curves revealed a field-induced (spin-...

As the macro behavior of the strength of exchange interaction, state of the art of Curie temperature Tc, which is directly proportional to the exchange integrals, makes sense to the high-frequency and high-reliability microwave devices. Challenge remains as finding a quantitative way to reveal the relationship between the Curie temperature and the exchange integrals for doped barium hexaferrite...

We show that a vanadium–chromium Prussian blue analogue, which is a room-temperature moleculebased magnet, displays a fast magnetic response on a femtosecond timescale that is attributed to the super-exchange interaction between the metal ions. These dynamics are obtained from femtosecond Faraday magneto-optical (MO) measurements, performed at 50 and 300 K. Exciting at the ligand-tometal charge...

Two series of B-site ordered, double-perovskite A2CoMnO6 and A2NiMnO6 (A = La, Pr, Nd, Sm, Gd) epitaxial films with thickness d ~ 100 nm were grown on SrTiO3(111) substrates via metalorganic aerosol deposition. Polarization temperature-dependent Raman spectroscopy carried out in order to determine the spin-phonon coupling constant, λ, impact A-site cation radius phonon properties. The reduction...

We investigate the cause of spatial superexchange anisotropy in a family copper-based, quasi-two-dimensional materials with very similar geometries. The compounds this differ mainly their inter-layer separation but they have different magnetic interactions, even within basal plane. use density functional theory and Wannier functions to parameterize two complimentary tight-binding models show th...

The effect of polar states on the superexchange interaction between two identical spin 1/2 magnetic ions is examined. The one-body potential contributions to the effective exchange constant Jeff are written in terms of the splitting 2AQ between the bonding and antibonding single particle lower-states of the dimeric complex. Moreover, the energies of the basis triplet and singlet states are obta...

Zn1-x Ni x O (x = 0.03 ÷ 0.10) and Zn1-x Fe x O (x = 0.03 ÷ 0.15) thin films were synthesized by sol-gel method. The structure and the surface morphology of zinc oxide thin films doped with transition metal (TM) ions have been investigated by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and atomic force microscopy (AFM). The magnetic studies were done using vibrating sample magnetometer (VSM) at room temperature. E...