Papers by Hitesh Changlani
We investigate the correlated state of Ce2Hf2O7 using neutron scattering, finding signatures of c... more We investigate the correlated state of Ce2Hf2O7 using neutron scattering, finding signatures of correlations of both dipolar and octupolar character. A dipolar inelastic signal is also observed, as expected for spinons in a quantum spin ice (QSI). Fits of thermodynamic data using exact diagonalization methods indicate that the largest interaction is an octupolar exchange, with a strength roughly twice as large as other terms. This hierarchy of exchange interactions - far from a perturbative regime but still in the octupolar QSI phase - rationalises observations in neutron scattering, which illustrate the multipolar nature of degrees of freedom in Ce3+ pyrochlores.
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arXiv (Cornell University), Dec 28, 2022
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Physical Review B, 2021
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Cornell University - arXiv, Jun 15, 2022
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Cornell University - arXiv, Oct 5, 2017
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Nature Communications
The single-ion anisotropy and magnetic interactions in spin-ice systems give rise to unusual non-... more The single-ion anisotropy and magnetic interactions in spin-ice systems give rise to unusual non-collinear spin textures, such as Pauling states and magnetic monopoles. The effective spin correlation strength (Jeff) determines the relative energies of the different spin-ice states. With this work, we display the capability of capacitive torque magnetometry in characterizing the magneto-chemical potential associated with monopole formation. We build a magnetic phase diagram of Ho2Ti2O7, and show that the magneto-chemical potential depends on the spin sublattice (α or β), i.e., the Pauling state, involved in the transition. Monte Carlo simulations using the dipolar-spin-ice Hamiltonian support our findings of a sublattice-dependent magneto-chemical potential, but the model underestimates the Jeff for the β-sublattice. Additional simulations, including next-nearest neighbor interactions (J2), show that long-range exchange terms in the Hamiltonian are needed to describe the measurements...
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Physical Review B, 2015
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Physical Review B, 2015
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Physical Review B, 2013
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Cornell University - arXiv, Sep 1, 2022
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Thermalization and its breakdown in isolated systems has led to a deeper understanding of non-equ... more Thermalization and its breakdown in isolated systems has led to a deeper understanding of non-equilibrium quantum states and their dependence on initial conditions. This is prominently highlighted by the existence of quantum scars, special athermal states with an underlying effective superspin structure, embedded in an otherwise chaotic many-body spectrum. Spin XXZ models and their variants in one and higher dimension have been shown to host exact quantum scars, exhibiting perfect revivals of spin helix states that are realizable in synthetic and condensed matter systems. Motivated by these advances, we propose experimentally accessible local, time-dependent protocols to explore the spatial thermalization profile and highlight how different parts of the system thermalize and affect the fate of the superspin. We identify distinct parametric regimes for the ferromagnetic (X-polarized) initial state based on the interplay between the driven spin and the rest, including local athermal behavior where the driven spin effectively decouples, acting like a "cold" spot while being instrumental in heating up the other spins. We develop a real and Floquet space picture that explains our numerical observations, and make predictions that can be tested in various experimental setups.
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Moire systems offer an exciting playground to study many-body effects of strongly correlated elec... more Moire systems offer an exciting playground to study many-body effects of strongly correlated electrons in regimes that are not easily accessible in conventional material settings. Motivated by a recent experiment on WSe2/WS2 moire bilayers [Y. Tang et al., Nature 579, 353-358 (2020)], which realizes a triangular superlattice with a small hopping (of approximately 10 Kelvin), with tunable density of holes, we explore the Hubbard model on the triangular lattice for intermediate temperatures t<T<U. Employing finite temperature Lanczos calculations, and closely following the fitting protocols used in the experiment, we recover the observed trends in the reported Curie-Weiss temperature Θ with filling, using the reported interaction strength U/t=20. We focus on the large increase of |Θ| on decreasing the density below half filling and the sign change of Θ at higher fillings, which signals the onset of ferromagnetism. The increase in |Θ| is also seen in the t-J model (the low energy limit of the Hubbard model) in the intermediate temperature range. However, its high temperature limit yields an opposite trend with density, whose origin we explain. Our numerical calculations also capture the crossover between short range antiferromagnetic to ferromagnetic order in the intermediate temperature regime, a result broadly consistent with the experimental findings. We find that this behavior is a finite-temperature remnant of the underlying zero temperature phase transition, which we explore with ground state density matrix renormalization group calculations. We provide evidence of ferromagnetism characterized by weak (but robust) correlations that explain the small Θ seen in the experiment
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We show that strong electronic repulsion transforms a vortex core from a metallic-type in overdop... more We show that strong electronic repulsion transforms a vortex core from a metallic-type in overdoped regime to a Mott-insulator at underdoping of a strongly correlated d-wave superconductor. This changeover is accompanied by an accumulation of electron density at the vortex core towards local half-filling in the underdoped region, which in turn facilitates the formation of the Mott insulating core. We find that the size of vortices evolves non-monotonically with doping. A similar non-monotonicity of critical field Hc2, as extracted from superfluid stiffness, is also found. Our results explain some recent experimental puzzles of cuprate superconductors.
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Frontiers in Physics, 2018
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The Journal of chemical physics, Jan 14, 2015
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The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2015
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Physical Review B, 2015
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npj Quantum Materials
The search for quantum spin liquids—topological magnets with fractionalized excitations—has been ... more The search for quantum spin liquids—topological magnets with fractionalized excitations—has been a central theme in condensed matter and materials physics. Despite numerous theoretical proposals, connecting experiment with detailed theory exhibiting a robust quantum spin liquid has remained a central challenge. Here, focusing on the strongly spin-orbit coupled effective S = 1/2 pyrochlore magnet Ce2Zr2O7, we analyze recent thermodynamic and neutron-scattering experiments, to identify a microscopic effective Hamiltonian through a combination of finite temperature Lanczos, Monte Carlo, and analytical spin dynamics calculations. Its parameter values suggest the existence of an exotic phase, a π-flux U(1) quantum spin liquid. Intriguingly, the octupolar nature of the moments makes them less prone to be affected by magnetic disorder, while also hiding some otherwise characteristic signatures from neutrons, making this spin liquid arguably more stable than its more conventional counterparts.
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In the context of the S=1 kagome antiferromagnet Na_2Ti_3Cl_8, we respond to the comment by Khoms... more In the context of the S=1 kagome antiferromagnet Na_2Ti_3Cl_8, we respond to the comment by Khomskii et al. [D.I. Khomskii, T. Mizokawa and S.V. Streltsov, Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 049701 (2021)] on previous work by Paul et al. [A. Paul, C.-M. Chung, T. Birol, and H. J. Changlani, Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 167203 (2020)].
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