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Title: Magnon damping in the zigzag phase of the Kitaev-Heisenberg- Γ model on a honeycomb lattice

Abstract

We calculate dispersions and damping of the magnetic excitations in the model that is relevant to a description of the magnetic properties of iridium oxides α-Li2IrO3 and Na2IrO3, and Ru-based materials such as α-RuCl3. Focusing on the parameter regime with the zigzag spin pattern in the ground state that is consistent with experiments, we are able to obtain explicit analytical expressions for magnon energies and eigenstates and go beyond the standard linear spin-wave theory approximation by calculating magnon damping and demonstrating its role in the dynamical structure factor. Here, we show that the magnon damping effects in both Born and self-consistent approximations are very significant, underscoring the importance of nonlinear magnon coupling in interpreting broad features in the neutron-scattering spectra.

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [1];  [1]; ORCiD logo [2];  [3];  [1]
  1. Univ. Frankfurt (Germany)
  2. Univ. of California, Irvine, CA (United States); Joint Inst. for Nuclear Research, Moscow (Russia)
  3. Univ. of California, Irvine, CA (United States)
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Research Org.:
Univ. of California, Irvine, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division; National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1635666
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1600064
Grant/Contract Number:  
FG02-04ER46174; PHY-1607611; PHY-1748958
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physical Review B
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 101; Journal Issue: 5; 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; lifetimes & widths; magnetism; magnons; methods in magnetism; honeycomb lattice; iridates; ruthenates; Feynman diagrams; Holstein-Primakoff method; Kitaev-Heisenberg model; second quantization; spin lattice models

Citation Formats

Smit, R. L., Keupert, S., Tsyplyatyev, O., Maksimov, P. A., Chernyshev, Alexander L., and Kopietz, P. Magnon damping in the zigzag phase of the Kitaev-Heisenberg- Γ model on a honeycomb lattice. United States: N. p., 2020. Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.101.054424.
Smit, R. L., Keupert, S., Tsyplyatyev, O., Maksimov, P. A., Chernyshev, Alexander L., & Kopietz, P. Magnon damping in the zigzag phase of the Kitaev-Heisenberg- Γ model on a honeycomb lattice. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.101.054424
Smit, R. L., Keupert, S., Tsyplyatyev, O., Maksimov, P. A., Chernyshev, Alexander L., and Kopietz, P. Tue . "Magnon damping in the zigzag phase of the Kitaev-Heisenberg- Γ model on a honeycomb lattice". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.101.054424. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1635666.
@article{osti_1635666,
title = {Magnon damping in the zigzag phase of the Kitaev-Heisenberg- Γ model on a honeycomb lattice},
author = {Smit, R. L. and Keupert, S. and Tsyplyatyev, O. and Maksimov, P. A. and Chernyshev, Alexander L. and Kopietz, P.},
abstractNote = {We calculate dispersions and damping of the magnetic excitations in the model that is relevant to a description of the magnetic properties of iridium oxides α-Li2IrO3 and Na2IrO3, and Ru-based materials such as α-RuCl3. Focusing on the parameter regime with the zigzag spin pattern in the ground state that is consistent with experiments, we are able to obtain explicit analytical expressions for magnon energies and eigenstates and go beyond the standard linear spin-wave theory approximation by calculating magnon damping and demonstrating its role in the dynamical structure factor. Here, we show that the magnon damping effects in both Born and self-consistent approximations are very significant, underscoring the importance of nonlinear magnon coupling in interpreting broad features in the neutron-scattering spectra.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevB.101.054424},
journal = {Physical Review B},
number = 5,
volume = 101,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Feb 18 00:00:00 EST 2020},
month = {Tue Feb 18 00:00:00 EST 2020}
}

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