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Collective electronic fluctuations in correlated materials give rise to various important phenomena, such as existence of the charge ordering, superconductivity, Mott insulating and magnetic phases, plasmon and magnon modes, and other interesting features of such systems. Unfortunately, description of these correlation effects requires significant efforts, since they almost entirely rely on strong local and nonlocal electron-electron interactions. Some collective phenomena, such as magnetism, can be sufficiently described by a simple Heisenberg-like models that are formulated in terms of bosonic variables. This fact suggests that other many-body excitations can also be described by simple bosonic models in spirit of the Heisenberg theory. Here we derive an effective bosonic action for charge degrees of freedom for the extended Hubbard model and define a physical regime where the obtained action reduces to a classical Hamiltonian of an effective Ising model.

Various auxiliary-particle approaches to treat electron correlations in many-electron models are analyzed. Applications to copper-oxide layered systems are discussed. The ground-state magnetic phase diagrams are considered within the Hubbard and $s$-$d$ exchange (Kondo) models for square and simple cubic lattices vs. band filling and interaction parameter. A generalized Hartree-Fock approximation is employed to treat commensurate ferro-, antiferromagnetic, and incommensurate (spiral) magnetic phases, and also magnetic phase separation. The correlations are taken into account within the Hubbard model by using the slave-boson approach. The main advantage of this approach is correct estimating the contribution of doubly occupied states number and therefore the paramagnetic phase energy., Physics of Metals and Metallography, special issue, 4 pages

The role of rare earth ion R3+ in spin reorientation and magneto dielectric response is investigated by substitution of non-magnetic smaller ionic radii Lu3+ in multiferroic hexagonal HoMnO3. The XRD analysis suggests that the dopant may preferably goes to C3V site up to 1/3rd of the composition in order to reduce the lattice distortion. We suggest that the R3+ ion at C3 site could play a strong role in spin reorientation than the C3V site. The observation of TSR even in LuMnO3 precludes the role of rare earth magnetic moment in driving the spin reorientation. Surprisingly, the magneto dielectric response of HoMnO3 is dominated by the rare earth RO 8 dipoles. The oppositely oriented RO8 dipole at the C3V and C3 determines the magneto dielectric response in various magnetic phases reaffirming the site specific substitution. Thus, site specific doping could be a way to enhance the magnetoelectric coupling strength. � 2013 AIP Publishing LLC.

We report muon spin rotation and magnetization measurements under pressure on ${\mathrm{Fe}}_{1+\ensuremath{\delta}}{\mathrm{Se}}_{1\ensuremath{-}x}{\mathrm{S}}_{x}$ with $x\ensuremath{\approx}0.11$. Above $p\ensuremath{\approx}0.6\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{GPa}$ we find a microscopic coexistence of superconductivity with an extended dome of long range magnetic order that spans a pressure range between previously reported separated magnetic phases. The magnetism initially competes on an atomic scale with the coexisting superconductivity leading to a local maximum and minimum of the superconducting ${T}_{c}(p)$. The maximum of ${T}_{c}$ corresponds to the onset of magnetism while the minimum coincides with the pressure of strongest competition. A shift of the maximum of ${T}_{c}(p)$ for a series of single crystals with $x$ up to 0.14 roughly extrapolates to a putative magnetic and superconducting state at ambient pressure for $x\ensuremath{\ge}0.2$.