Magnon decay below the critical field in the S=1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnet CAPCC

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The two dimensional Heisenberg antiferromagnet on a square lattice is one of the most studied model quantum magnets. This is in part due to its intrinsic interest but also to the fact that both the cuprates and the pnictide superconductors belong to this class of magnet. In the fully quantum case with s=1/2 an outstanding theoretical and experimental challenge is to understand how the excitations evolve as a function of field. Above a critical field Hc the magnetic moments fully align and the system reduces to a purely classical one, with a quenching of quantum fluctuations. En route to this state it is predicted that the one magnon excitations become unstable due to their interaction with two-magnon states and decay. Here we are proposing to perform a definitive study of this effect which will allow us to test various theoretical scenarios.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24088378
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24088378
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Creator Professor Des McMorrow; Dr Niels Christensen; Professor Henrik Ronnow; Professor Christian Ruegg; Mr Matt Mena; Mr Stefan Gosuly; Dr Gøran Nilsen; Mr Martin Mourigal
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2014
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2011-11-22T09:28:55Z
Temporal Coverage End 2011-12-01T14:32:01Z