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Raman scattering in a Heisenberg S=1/2 antiferromagnet on the anisotropic triangular lattice

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2015-06-12 v2

Abstract

We investigate the two-magnon Raman scattering from an anisotropic S=1/2 triangular Heisenberg antiferromagnet Cs2CuCl4. We find that the Raman response is very sensitive to magnon-magnon interactions and to scattering geometries, a feature that is in remarkable contrast with the polarization-independent Raman signal from the isotropic triangular Heisenberg antiferromagnet. Since a spin-liquid ground state gives rise to a similar rotationally invariant Raman response, our results on the polarization dependence of the scattering spectrum suggest that Raman spectroscopy provides a useful probe, complementary to neutron scattering, of the ground-state properties of Cs2CuCl4, particularly whether the time-reversal symmetry is broken in the ground state.

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@article{arxiv.1212.2286,
  title  = {Raman scattering in a Heisenberg S=1/2 antiferromagnet on the anisotropic triangular lattice},
  author = {Natalia B. Perkins and Gia-Wei Chern and Wolfram Brenig},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1212.2286},
  year   = {2015}
}

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9 pages, 6 figures