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Elementary excitations in the ordered phase of spin-1/2 J1-J2 model on square lattice

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2019-06-12 v2

Abstract

We use recently proposed four-spin bond-operator technique (BOT) to discuss spectral properties of frustrated spin-12\frac12 J1J_1--J2J_2 Heisenberg antiferromagnet on square lattice at J2<0.4J1J_2<0.4J_1 (i.e., in the N\'eel ordered phase). This formalism is convenient for the consideration of low-lying excitations which appear in conventional approaches as multi-magnon bound states (e.g., the Higgs excitation) because separate bosons describe them in BOT. At J2=0J_2=0, the obtained magnon spectrum describes accurately available experimental data. However, calculated one-magnon spectral weights and the transverse dynamical structure factor (DSF) do not reproduce experimental findings quantitatively around the momentum k=(π,0){\bf k}=(\pi,0). Then, we do not support the conjecture that the continuum of excitations observed experimentally and numerically near k=(π,0){\bf k}=(\pi,0) is of the Higgs-magnon origin. Upon J2J_2 increasing, one-magnon spectral weights decrease and spectra of high-energy spin-0 and spin-1 excitations move down. One of spin-0 quasiparticles becomes long-lived and its spectrum merges with the magnon spectrum in the most part of the Brillouin zone at J20.3J1J_2\approx0.3J_1. We predict that the Higgs excitation and another spin-0 quasiparticle become long-lived around k=(π/2,π/2){\bf k}=(\pi/2,\pi/2) at J2\agt0.3J1J_2\agt0.3J_1 and produce sharp anomalies in the longitudinal DSF.

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@article{arxiv.1905.04710,
  title  = {Elementary excitations in the ordered phase of spin-1/2 J1-J2 model on square lattice},
  author = {A. V. Syromyatnikov and A. Yu. Aktersky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.04710},
  year   = {2019}
}

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11 pages, 8 figures