Publications by Salvatore Manmana

Field-Induced Gap in the Spin-1/2 Heisenberg Chain Compound Cu-Pyrimidine Dinitrate: ESR Studies in Magnetic Fields up to 63 T

Results of electron spin resonance studies of copper pyrimidine dinitrate (Cu-PM, [PM-Cu(NO3)(2)(H2O)(2)] (n) , PM = pyrimidine), a spin-1/2 antiferromagnetic chain material with alternating g-tensor and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions, in pulsed magnet ...

2013

Realization of higher Wess-Zumino-Witten models in spin chains

Frédéric Mila, Frédéric Alexis Michaud, Salvatore Manmana

Building on the generalization of the exactly dimerized Majumdar-Ghosh ground state to arbitrary spin S for the Heisenberg chain with a three-site term (Si-1 . S-i)(S-i . Si+1) + H.c., we use density-matrix renormalization group simulations and exact diago ...

2013

Magnetization of SrCu2(BO3)(2) in Ultrahigh Magnetic Fields up to 118 T

Frédéric Mila, Salvatore Manmana

The magnetization process of the orthogonal-dimer antiferromagnet SrCu2(BO3)(2) is investigated in high magnetic fields of up to 118 T. A 1/2 plateau is clearly observed in the field range 84 to 108 T in addition to 1/8, 1/4, and 1/3 plateaus at lower fiel ...

2013

Antiferromagnetic Spin-S Chains with Exactly Dimerized Ground States

Frédéric Mila, Frédéric Alexis Michaud, François Vernay, Salvatore Manmana

We show that spin S Heisenberg spin chains with an additional three-body interaction of the form (Si-1 center dot S-i)(S-i center dot S-i (+) (1)) + H.c. possess fully dimerized ground states if the ratio of the three-body interaction to the bilinear one i ...

2012

Phase diagram and continuous pair-unbinding transition of the bilinear-biquadratic S=1 Heisenberg chain in a magnetic field

Frédéric Mila, Salvatore Manmana

We investigate the properties of the Heisenberg S = 1 chain with bilinear and biquadratic interactions in a magnetic field using the density-matrix renormalization-group, Bethe ansatz, and field-theoretical considerations. In a large region of the paramete ...

2011

Unconventional magnetization plateaus in a Shastry-Sutherland spin tube

Jean-David Picon, Frédéric Mila, Salvatore Manmana

Using density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) and perturbative continuous unitary transformations (PCUTs), we study the magnetization process in a magnetic field for all coupling strengths of a quasi-1D version of the 2D Shastry-Sutherland lattice, a f ...

2011

Field-induced gap in a quantum spin-1/2 chain in a strong magnetic field

Frédéric Mila, Salvatore Manmana

Magnetic excitations in copper pyrimidine dinitrate, a spin-1/2 antiferromagnetic chain with alternating g-tensor and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions that exhibits a field-induced spin gap, are probed by means of pulsed-field electron-spin-resonance spe ...

2011

Frustration- induced plateaus in S >= 1/2 Heisenberg spin ladders

Jean-David Picon, Frédéric Mila, Tommaso Coletta, Frédéric Alexis Michaud, Salvatore Manmana

We study the T=0 magnetization of frustrated two-leg spin ladders with arbitrary value of the spin S. In the strong-rung limit, we use degenerate perturbation theory to prove that frustration leads to magnetization plateaus at fractional values of the magn ...

2010

Time evolution of correlations in strongly interacting fermions after a quantum quench

Salvatore Manmana

Using the adaptive time-dependent density-matrix renormalization group, we study the time evolution of density correlations of interacting spinless fermions on a one-dimensional lattice after a sudden change in the interaction strength. Over a broad range ...

2009

Quantum distillation: Dynamical generation of low-entropy states of strongly correlated fermions in an optical lattice

Salvatore Manmana

Correlations between particles can lead to subtle and sometimes counterintuitive phenomena. We analyze one such case, occurring during the sudden expansion of fermions in a lattice when the initial state has a strong admixture of double occupancies. We pro ...

2009

Torque anomalies at magnetization plateaux in quantum magnets with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions

Frédéric Mila, Salvatore Manmana

We investigate the effect of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interactions on torque measurements of quantum magnets with magnetization plateaux in the context of a frustrated spin-1/2 ladder. Using extensive DMRG simulations, we show that the DM contribution to ...

2009

Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya anisotropy and nonmagnetic impurities in the s=1/2 kagome system ZnCu3(OH)(6)Cl-2

Frédéric Mila, Ioannis Rousochatzakis, Bruce Normand, Salvatore Manmana

Motivated by recent nuclear magnetic resonance experiments on ZnCu3(OH)(6)Cl-2, we present an exact-diagonalization study of the combined effects of nonmagnetic impurities and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interactions in the s = 1/2 kagome antiferromagnet. T ...

2009

Uniform and staggered magnetizations induced by Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions in isolated and coupled spin-1∕2dimers in a magnetic field

Frédéric Mila, Salvatore Manmana

We investigate the interplay of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions and an external field in spin-1∕2 dimers. For isolated dimers and at low field, we derive simple expressions for the staggered and uniform magnetizations which show that the orientation of ...

2007