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Breakdown of the conventional spin-wave dynamics and its double-constraint modification in the spin-$\mathbf{\frac{1}{2}}$ triangular-prism Heisenberg antiferromagnet

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2025-08-26 v1 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

Spontaneous magnon decays in an S=12S=\frac{1}{2} Heisenberg antiferromagnet on the equilateral triangular prism are investigated in terms of modified magnon Green's functions. In one dimension, the so-called infrared divergence prevents us from calculating any -- whether static or dynamic -- structure factor within the conventional spin-wave theory even at zero temperature. The well-known modified spin-wave theory initiated by Takahashi completely fails to treat anharmonicities to cause transverse-to-longitudinal coupling which are quite characteristic of noncollinear antiferromagnets. We propose imposing a double-constraint condition on spin waves to solve all these difficulties and get a full view of the nonlinear spin-wave dynamics in one-dimensional frustrated noncollinear antiferromagnets. We reveal a novel instability of the single-particle spectrum in the absence of any well-defined magnetically ordered ground state.

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@article{arxiv.2507.07463,
  title  = {Breakdown of the conventional spin-wave dynamics and its double-constraint modification in the spin-$\mathbf{\frac{1}{2}}$ triangular-prism Heisenberg antiferromagnet},
  author = {Shoji Yamamoto and Jun Ohara},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.07463},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

7 pages including 3 figures (main text) plus 13 pages including 3 figures and 2 tables (supplemental material)