Optical control of competing exchange interactions and coherent spin-charge coupling in two-orbital Mott insulators
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 $J_{\textrm{ex}}$ that is analogous to the single-orbital case. Moreover we demonstrate that also the additional biquadratic exchange interaction $B_{\textrm{ex}}$ 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.
- Publication:
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SciPost Physics
- Pub Date:
- March 2019
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1803.03796
- Bibcode:
- 2019ScPP....6...27B
- Keywords:
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- Condensed Matter - Strongly Correlated Electrons
- E-Print:
- 3 pages, 6 figures