Tuesday, December 18, 2012

1212.3671 (Andrea Secchi et al.)

Non-equilibrium magnetic interactions in strongly correlated systems    [PDF]

Andrea Secchi, Sergei Brener, Alexander I. Lichtenstein, Mikhail I. Katsnelson
We formulate a low-energy theory for the magnetic interactions between electrons in the multi-band Hubbard model under non-equilibrium conditions determined by an external time-dependent electric field which simulates laser-induced spin dynamics. We derive expressions for dynamical exchange parameters in terms of non-equilibrium electronic Green functions and self-energies, which can be computed, e.g., with the methods of time-dependent dynamical mean-field theory. Moreover, we find that a correct description of the system requires, in addition to exchange, a new kind of magnetic interaction, that we name "twist exchange", which formally resembles Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya coupling, but is not due to spin-orbit, and is actually due to an effective three-spin interaction. Our theory allows the evaluation of the related time-dependent parameters as well.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.3671

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