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Magnon spectrum in ferromagnets with a skyrmion

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2015-12-29 v2 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

The analysis of the spin wave excitations in two-dimensional isotropic Heisenberg ferromagnet is performed with a single skyrmion in the ground state. We employ the ideas of semiclassical quantization method, duly modified for the use of the lattice model and Maleyev-Dyson boson representation of spin operators. The resulting Schr\"odinger equation for magnons describes the dispersion and wave functions of spin-wave excitations with strictly non-negative spectrum. In contrast to usual ferromagnet, we demonstrate the existence of three zero modes, corresponding to conformal symmetries spontaneously violated by the skyrmion configuration.

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@article{arxiv.1411.2452,
  title  = {Magnon spectrum in ferromagnets with a skyrmion},
  author = {D. N. Aristov and S. S. Kravchenko and A. O. Sorokin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.2452},
  year   = {2015}
}

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6 pages, 2 figures, final version