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Spin-wave interaction in two-dimensional ferromagnets with dipolar forces

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2008-05-05 v1

Abstract

We discuss the spin-wave interaction in two-dimensional (2D) Heisenberg ferromagnet (FM) with dipolar forces at TCT0T_C\gg T\ge0 using 1/S expansion. A comprehensive analysis is carried out of the first 1/S corrections to the spin-wave spectrum. In particular, similar to 3D FM discussed in our previous paper A.V. Syromyatnikov, PRB {\bf 74}, 014435 (2006), we obtain that the spin-wave interaction leads to the {\it gap} in the spectrum ϵk\epsilon_{\bf k} renormalizing greatly the bare gapless spectrum at small momenta kk. Expressions for the spin-wave damping Γk\Gamma_{\bf k} are derived self-consistently and it is concluded that magnons are well-defined quasi-particles in both quantum and classical 2D FMs at small TT. We observe thermal enhancement of both Γk\Gamma_{\bf k} and Γk/ϵk\Gamma_{\bf k}/\epsilon_{\bf k} at small momenta. In particular, a peak appears in Γk\Gamma_{\bf k} and Γk/ϵk\Gamma_{\bf k}/\epsilon_{\bf k} at small kk and at any given direction of k\bf k. If S1S\sim1 the height of the peak in Γk/ϵk\Gamma_{\bf k}/\epsilon_{\bf k} is not larger than a value proportional to T/D1T/D\ll1, where DD is the spin-wave stiffness. In the case of large spins S1S\gg1 the peak in Γk/ϵk\Gamma_{\bf k}/\epsilon_{\bf k} cannot be greater than that of the classical 2D FM found at k=0k=0 which height is small only {\it numerically}: Γ0/ϵ00.16\Gamma_{\bf 0}/\epsilon_{\bf 0}\approx0.16 for the simple square lattice. Frustrating next-nearest-neighbor exchange coupling increases Γ0/ϵ0\Gamma_{\bf 0}/\epsilon_{\bf 0} in classical 2D FM only slightly. We find expressions for spin Green's functions and the magnetization. The latter differs from the well-known result by S.V. Maleev, Sov. Phys. JETP {\bf 43}, 1240 (1976). The effect of the exchange anisotropy is also discussed briefly.

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@article{arxiv.0802.0958,
  title  = {Spin-wave interaction in two-dimensional ferromagnets with dipolar forces},
  author = {A. V. Syromyatnikov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0802.0958},
  year   = {2008}
}
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