New Trends in Quantum Complex Matter

A special issue of Condensed Matter (ISSN 2410-3896).

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On behalf of the Organizing Committee, we are pleased to announce the international QCM2018 conference which will be held in Rome, Italy, 11–15 June, 2018. We cordially invite you to participate in this conference, and all presented papers will be invited to be published in a joint Special Issue (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/condensedmatter/special_issues/QCM_2018). However, we also encourage other contributions from the broader community, and this sister Special Issue is reserved for contributions which cannot be presented at the conference, on the following topics. Note that the Editorial Office will merge the publications of these two Special Issues into one printed book after completion.

Correlated Electronic Systems:

  • unconventional superconductivity
  • novel magnetism
  • Mott transition
  • quantum criticality
  • multi-band Hubbard model
  • Lifshitz transitions

Nano Science:

  • graphene
  • TMDC
  • QHE
  • Topological
  • 2-D materials
  • Fano resonances

Spintronics:

  • Skyrmions
  • Itinerant electron
  • Magnetism
  • Spin current
  • Magnetic memory

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  • Feshbach Resonance
  • Hubbard Model
  • BEC-BCS crossover

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A Monte-Carlo Study on the Coupling of Magnetism and Ferroelectricity in the Hexagonal Multiferroic RMnO3
by Chunruo Duan, Gia-Wei Chern and Despina Louca
Condens. Matter 2018, 3(4), 28; https://doi.org/10.3390/condmat3040028 - 20 Sep 2018
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The ferroelectric phase transition in RMnO3 breaks both Z3 and Z2 symmetries, giving rise to 6 structural domains. Topological protected vortices are formed at the junctions of all 6 domains, and the ferroelectric phase transition is closely related to these [...] Read more.
The ferroelectric phase transition in RMnO3 breaks both Z3 and Z2 symmetries, giving rise to 6 structural domains. Topological protected vortices are formed at the junctions of all 6 domains, and the ferroelectric phase transition is closely related to these Z6 vortices. In this work, Monte-Carlo studies on both the ferroelectric and magnetic transition have been performed on RMnO3 system. The magnetic simulation results on lattices with different structural domain distributions induced by external electric field and simulated quenching show different magnetic transition temperature T s , indicating that the coupling of magnetism and ferroelectricity is through the Z6 structural domain. At extreme case, lattice quenched from above the ferroelectric transition results in high vortex density, which can drive the system into spin glass. Full article
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Ground-State Magnetization in Mixtures of a Few Ultra-Cold Fermions in One-Dimensional Traps
by Tomasz Sowiński
Condens. Matter 2018, 3(1), 7; https://doi.org/10.3390/condmat3010007 - 6 Mar 2018
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Ground-state properties of a few spin- 1 / 2 ultra-cold fermions confined in a one-dimensional trap are studied by the exact diagonalization method. In contrast to previous studies, it is not assumed that the projection of a spin of individual particles is fixed. [...] Read more.
Ground-state properties of a few spin- 1 / 2 ultra-cold fermions confined in a one-dimensional trap are studied by the exact diagonalization method. In contrast to previous studies, it is not assumed that the projection of a spin of individual particles is fixed. Therefore, the spin is treated as an additional degree of freedom and the global magnetization of the system is established spontaneously. Depending on the shape of the trap, inter-particle interactions, and an external magnetic field, the phase diagram of the system is determined. It is shown that, for particular confinements, some values of the magnetization cannot be reached by the ground-state of the system. Full article
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VUV Pump and Probe of Phase Separation and Oxygen Interstitials in La2NiO4+y Using Spectromicroscopy
by Antonio Bianconi, Augusto Marcelli, Markus Bendele, Davide Innocenti, Alexei Barinov, Nathalie Poirot and Gaetano Campi
Condens. Matter 2018, 3(1), 6; https://doi.org/10.3390/condmat3010006 - 11 Feb 2018
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While it is known that strongly correlated transition metal oxides described by a multi-band Hubbard model show microscopic multiscale phase separation, little is known about the possibility to manipulate them with vacuum ultraviolet (VUV), 27 eV lighting. We have investigated the photo-induced effects [...] Read more.
While it is known that strongly correlated transition metal oxides described by a multi-band Hubbard model show microscopic multiscale phase separation, little is known about the possibility to manipulate them with vacuum ultraviolet (VUV), 27 eV lighting. We have investigated the photo-induced effects of VUV light illumination of a super-oxygenated La2NiO4+y single crystal by means of scanning photoelectron microscopy. VUV light exposure induces the increase of the density of states (DOS) in the binding energy range around Eb = 1.4 eV below EF. The photo-induced states in this energy region have been predicted due to clustering of oxygen interstitials by band structure calculations for large supercell of La2CuO4.125. We finally show that it is possible to generate and manipulate oxygen rich domains by VUV illumination as it was reported for X-ray illumination of La2CuO4+y. This phenomenology is assigned to oxygen-interstitials ordering and clustering by photo-illumination forming segregated domains in the La2NiO4+y surface. Full article
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