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Simulating Spin Dynamics of Supersolid States in a Quantum Ising Magnet

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2025-07-15 v4

Abstract

Motivated by a recent experimental study on the quantum Ising magnet K2Co(SeO3)2\text{K}_2\text{Co}(\text{SeO}_3)_2 that presented spectroscopic evidence of zero-field supersolidity (Chen et al., arXiv:2402.15869), we simulate the excitation spectrum of the corresponding microscopic XXZXXZ model for the compound, using the recently developed excitation ansatz for infinite projected entangled-pair states. We map out the ground state phase diagram and compute the dynamical spin structure factors across a range of magnetic field strengths, focusing especially on the two supersolid phases found near zero and saturation fields. Our simulated excitation spectra for the zero-field supersolid "Y" phase are in excellent agreement with the experimental data - recovering the low-energy branches and integer quantized excited energy levels ωn=nJzz\omega_n=nJ_{zz}. Furthermore, we demonstrate the nonlocal multi-spin-flip features for modes at ω2\omega_2, indicative of their multi-magnon nature. Additionally, we identify characteristics of the high-field supersolid "Ψ\Psi" phase in the simulated spectra, which should be compared with future experimental results.

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@article{arxiv.2405.05151,
  title  = {Simulating Spin Dynamics of Supersolid States in a Quantum Ising Magnet},
  author = {Yi Xu and Juraj Hasik and Boris Ponsioen and Andriy H. Nevidomskyy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.05151},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

5 pages, 4 figures. Add discussion on S^{zz} and pseudo-Goldstone gap in SI