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Magnetic chern bands and triplon Hall effect in an extended Shastry-Sutherland model

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2017-05-24 v1

Abstract

We study topological properties of one-triplon bands in an extended Shastry-Sutherland model relevant for the frustrated quantum magnet SrCu_2(BO_3)_2. To this end perturbative continuous unitary transformations are applied about the isolated dimer limit allowing to calculate the one-triplon dispersion up to high order in various couplings including intra and inter Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions and a general uniform magnetic field. We determine the Berry curvature and the Chern number of the different one-triplon bands. We demonstrate the occurance of Chern numbers ±1\pm 1 and ±2\pm 2 for the case that two components of the magnetic field are finite. Finally, we also calculate the triplon Hall effect arising at finite temperatures.

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@article{arxiv.1703.03566,
  title  = {Magnetic chern bands and triplon Hall effect in an extended Shastry-Sutherland model},
  author = {M. Malki and K. P. Schmidt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.03566},
  year   = {2017}
}

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12 pages, 13 figures