Chernyshev A L, Maksimov P A
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, California 92697, USA.
Phys Rev Lett. 2016 Oct 28;117(18):187203. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.187203. Epub 2016 Oct 27.
We demonstrate that interactions can substantially undermine the free-particle description of magnons in ferromagnets on geometrically frustrated lattices. The anharmonic coupling, facilitated by the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction, and a highly degenerate two-magnon continuum yield a strong, nonperturbative damping of the high-energy magnon modes. We provide a detailed account of the effect for the S=1/2 ferromagnet on the kagome lattice and propose further experiments.
我们证明,在几何阻挫晶格上的铁磁体中,相互作用会极大地破坏磁振子的自由粒子描述。由Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya相互作用促成的非谐耦合以及高度简并的双磁振子连续体,会导致高能磁振子模式产生强烈的非微扰阻尼。我们详细阐述了对于 kagome 晶格上的 S = 1/2 铁磁体的这种效应,并提出了进一步的实验。