Diverging entanglement of critical magnons in easy-axis antiferromagnets

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Abstract

We study the instability of antiferromagnets with easy-axis anisotropy under a magnetic field, uncovering single or even multiple phase transitions at the boundary between non-collinear and collinear spin orderings. The entanglement and number of magnons, influenced by antiferromagnetic exchange and non-collinear order, diverge at critical points, illustrating a critical phenomenon. Furthermore, our study reveals that this criticality extends to a superradiant phase transition within cavity magnonics systems, where magnon-photon coupling affects the criticality. At the transition point, cavity photon numbers diverge with infinite squeezing in the ground state. This investigation not only elucidates the criticality of multi-component squeezed magnons but also proposes cavity photon measurements as a viable method for detecting magnetic phase transitions.

*J.M.L. and H.-W.L. acknowledge support from the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korean government (MSIT) (No. RS-2024-00410027). M.-J.H. was supported by the Startup Fund from Duke Kunshan University, and Innovation Program for Quantum Science and Technology 2021ZD0301602.

Publication: [1] Jongjun M. Lee, Hyun-Woo Lee, and Myung-Joong Hwang, under preparation.

Presenters

  • Jongjun Michael Lee

    • Pohang Univ of Sci & Tech

Authors

  • Jongjun Michael Lee

    • Pohang Univ of Sci & Tech
  • Hyun-Woo Lee

    • Pohang Univ of Sci & Tech
  • Myung-Joong Hwang

    • Duke Kunshan University