Frustrated impurity spins in ordered two-dimensional quantum antiferromagnets
Abstract
Dynamical properties of an impurity spin coupled symmetrically to sublattices of ordered 2D Heisenberg quantum antiferromagnet (i.e., frustrated impurity spin) are discussed at (existence of a small interaction stabilizing the long range order at is implied). We continue our study on this subject started in Phys.Rev.B 72, 174419 (2005), where spin-1/2 defect is discussed and the host spins fluctuations are considered within the spin-wave approximation (SWA). In the present paper we i) go beyond SWA and ii) study impurities with spins . It is demonstrated that in contrast to defects coupled to sublattices asymmetrically longitudinal host spins fluctuations play important role in the frustrated impurity dynamics. The spectral function, that is proportional to within SWA, acquires new terms proportional to and . It is observed that the spin-1/2 impurity susceptibility has the same structure as that obtained within SWA: the Lorenz peak and the non-resonant term. The difference is that the width of the peak becomes larger being proportional to rather than , where is the dimensionless coupling parameter. We show that transverse static susceptibility acquires a new negative logarithmic contribution. In accordance with previous works we find that host spins fluctuations lead to an effective one-ion anisotropy on the impurity site. Then defects with appears to be split. We observe strong reduction of the value of the splitting due to longitudinal host spins fluctuations. We demonstrate that the dynamical impurity susceptibility contains Lorenz peaks corresponding to transitions between the levels, and the non-resonant term.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0610506,
title = {Frustrated impurity spins in ordered two-dimensional quantum antiferromagnets},
author = {A. V. Syromyatnikov and S. V. Maleyev},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0610506},
year = {2007}
}
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17 pages, 7 figures, to appear in PRB