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Dispersion of orbital excitations in 2D quantum antiferromagnets

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2012-12-19 v1

Abstract

We map the problem of the orbital excitation (orbiton) in a 2D antiferromagnetic and ferroorbital ground state onto a problem of a hole in 2D antiferromagnet. The orbiton turns out to be coupled to magnons and can only be mobile on a strongly renormalized scale by dressing with magnetic excitations. We show that this leads to a dispersion relation reflecting the two-site unit cell of the antiferromagnetic background, in contrast to the predictions based on a mean-field approximation and linear orbital-wave theory.

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@article{arxiv.1111.5522,
  title  = {Dispersion of orbital excitations in 2D quantum antiferromagnets},
  author = {Krzysztof Wohlfeld and Maria Daghofer and Giniyat Khaliullin and Jeroen van den Brink},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1111.5522},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

4 pages, 2 figures, submitted to SCES 2011 conference proceedings