Magnetization dynamics fingerprints of an excitonic condensate magnet
Abstract
The competition between spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and electron-electron interaction leads to a plethora of novel states of matter, extensively studied in the context of and materials, such as ruthenates and iridates. Excitonic magnets—the antiferromagnetic state of bounded electron-hole pairs-are prominent examples of phenomena driven by those competing energy scales. Interestingly, recent theoretical studies predicted that excitonic magnets can be found in the ground state of SOC Hubbard models. Here we present a detailed computational study of the magnetic excitations in that excitonic magnet, employing one-dimensional chains (via density matrix renormalization group) and small two-dimensional clusters (via Lanczos). Specifically, first we show that the low-energy spectrum is dominated by a dispersive (acoustic) magnonic mode, with extra features arising from the state in the phase diagram. Second, and more importantly, we found a novel magnetic excitation forming a high-energy optical mode with the highest intensity at wave-vector . In the excitonic condensation regime at large , we also have found a novel high-energy mode composed solely of orbital excitations. Overall, these features do not appear all together in any of the neighboring states in the phase diagram and thus constitute unique fingerprints of the excitonic magnet, of importance in the analysis of neutron and resonant inelastic x-ray scattering experiments.
- Authors:
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- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Wroclaw Univ. of Science and Technology (Poland)
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS)
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division; Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA); National Science Centre Poland (NCN)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1838948
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725; PPN/PPO/2018/1/00035; 2019/35/B/ST3/01207
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review B
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 104; Journal Issue: 23; Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9950
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; magnetism; spin-orbit coupling; antiferromagnets; Bose-Einstein condensates; iridates
Citation Formats
Kaushal, Nitin, Herbrych, Jacek, Alvarez, Gonzalo, and Dagotto, Elbio R. Magnetization dynamics fingerprints of an excitonic condensate t2g4 magnet. United States: N. p., 2021.
Web. doi:10.1103/physrevb.104.235135.
Kaushal, Nitin, Herbrych, Jacek, Alvarez, Gonzalo, & Dagotto, Elbio R. Magnetization dynamics fingerprints of an excitonic condensate t2g4 magnet. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.104.235135
Kaushal, Nitin, Herbrych, Jacek, Alvarez, Gonzalo, and Dagotto, Elbio R. Mon .
"Magnetization dynamics fingerprints of an excitonic condensate t2g4 magnet". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.104.235135. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1838948.
@article{osti_1838948,
title = {Magnetization dynamics fingerprints of an excitonic condensate t2g4 magnet},
author = {Kaushal, Nitin and Herbrych, Jacek and Alvarez, Gonzalo and Dagotto, Elbio R.},
abstractNote = {The competition between spin-orbit coupling (SOC) λ and electron-electron interaction U leads to a plethora of novel states of matter, extensively studied in the context of t2g4 and t2g5 materials, such as ruthenates and iridates. Excitonic magnets—the antiferromagnetic state of bounded electron-hole pairs-are prominent examples of phenomena driven by those competing energy scales. Interestingly, recent theoretical studies predicted that excitonic magnets can be found in the ground state of SOC t2g4 Hubbard models. Here we present a detailed computational study of the magnetic excitations in that excitonic magnet, employing one-dimensional chains (via density matrix renormalization group) and small two-dimensional clusters (via Lanczos). Specifically, first we show that the low-energy spectrum is dominated by a dispersive (acoustic) magnonic mode, with extra features arising from the λ=0 state in the phase diagram. Second, and more importantly, we found a novel magnetic excitation forming a high-energy optical mode with the highest intensity at wave-vector q→0. In the excitonic condensation regime at large U, we also have found a novel high-energy π mode composed solely of orbital excitations. Overall, these features do not appear all together in any of the neighboring states in the phase diagram and thus constitute unique fingerprints of the t2g4 excitonic magnet, of importance in the analysis of neutron and resonant inelastic x-ray scattering experiments.},
doi = {10.1103/physrevb.104.235135},
journal = {Physical Review B},
number = 23,
volume = 104,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Dec 20 00:00:00 EST 2021},
month = {Mon Dec 20 00:00:00 EST 2021}
}
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