Antiferromagnetic Magnons from Fractionalized Excitations

ORAL

Abstract

We develop an approach to describe antiferromagnetic magnons on a bipartite lattice supporting
the Neel state using fractionalized degrees of freedom typically inherent to quantum spin liquids.
In particular we consider a long-range magnetically ordered state of interacting two-dimensional
quantum spin 1/2 models using the Chern-Simons (CS) fermion representation of interacting spins.
The interaction leads to Cooper instability and pairing of CS fermions, and to CS superconductivity
which spontaneously violates the continuous U(1) symmetry generating a linearly-dispersing gapless
Nambu-Goldstone mode due to phase fluctuations. We evaluate this mode and show that it is in
high-precision agreement with magnons of the corresponding Neel antiferromagnet irrespective to
the lattice symmetry.

Presenters

  • Rui Wang

    Department of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Nanjing Univ, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Authors

  • Rui Wang

    Department of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Nanjing Univ, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

  • Baigeng Wang

    Department of physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing University

  • Tigran Sedrakyan

    Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst