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Long-range spin correlations in a honeycomb spin model with magnetic field

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2016-10-26 v1

Abstract

We consider spin-12\frac{1}{2} model on the honeycomb lattice in the presence of weak magnetic field hJh\ll J. Such a perturbation treated in the second order over hh leads to the power-law decay of irreducible spin correlation function S(r,t)=srz(t)s0z(0)hz2f(t,r)S(\mathbf{r},t)=\left\langle \left\langle s^{z}_r(t)s^{z}_0(0)\right\rangle \right\rangle \propto h_{z}^{2}f(t,\mathbf{r}), where f(t,r)[max(t,Jr)]4f(t,\mathbf{r})\propto \lbrack \max (t,Jr)]^{-4} is an oscillating function of r\mathbf{r}, with a wavelength equal to 3 lattice constants. In the present Letter we sum main terms in all orders of the perturbation theory for the correlation function S(r,t)S(\mathbf{r},t) in the limit of large r,tr,t. Our results can be understood in terms of the effective low-energy Hamiltonian written in terms of Majorana fermions, which in the presence of magnetic field acquire vector potential Axhz2A_x \propto h_z^2. Correspondingly, the wave vector of the oscillations in S(r,t)S(\mathbf{r},t) changes according to δkhz2\delta k \propto h_z^2. We also compute the dynamic structure factor S(p,ω)S(\mathbf{p},\omega); in the vicinity of pK\mathbf{p}_K corresponding to the inter-conical points excitations it reads as S(p,ω)S(pK,ω)ω23J2(ppK)2S(\mathbf{p},\omega)-S(\mathbf{p}_K,\omega)\propto\sqrt{\omega^2-3J^2(\mathbf{p}-\mathbf{p}_K)^2}.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1610.04849,
  title  = {Long-range spin correlations in a honeycomb spin model with magnetic field},
  author = {A. V. Lunkin and K. S. Tikhonov and M. V. Feigel'man},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.04849},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

8 pages, 2 figures. Extended and corrected version of the paper published in JETP Lett. v.103, p.117 (2016)

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