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Optical control of competing exchange interactions and coherent spin-charge coupling in two-orbital Mott insulators
by M. M. S. Barbeau, M. Eckstein, M. I. Katsnelson, J. H. Mentink
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Authors (as registered SciPost users): | Marion Barbeau |
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Preprint Link: | https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.03796v2 (pdf) |
Date accepted: | Feb. 21, 2019 |
Date submitted: | Feb. 4, 2019, 1 a.m. |
Submitted by: | Barbeau, Marion |
Submitted to: | SciPost Physics |
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Academic field: | Physics |
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Approach: | Theoretical |
Abstract
In order to have a better understanding of ultrafast electrical control of exchange interactions in multi-orbital systems, we study a two-orbital Hubbard model at half filling under the action of a time-periodic electric field. Using suitable projection operators and a generalized time-dependent canonical transformation, we derive an effective Hamiltonian which describes two different regimes. First, for a wide range of non-resonant frequencies, we find a change of the bilinear Heisenberg exchange Jex that is analogous to the single-orbital case. Moreover we demonstrate that also the additional biquadratic exchange interaction Bex can be enhanced, reduced and even change sign depending on the electric field. Second, for special driving frequencies, we demonstrate a novel spin-charge coupling phenomenon enabling coherent transfer between spin and charge degrees of freedom of doubly ionized states. These results are confirmed by an exact time-evolution of the full two-orbital Mott-Hubbard Hamiltonian.
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Published as SciPost Phys. 6, 027 (2019)
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Report #1 by Marin Bukov (Referee 1) on 2019-2-16 (Invited Report)
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