Dynamical Structure Factor of the Three-Dimensional Quantum Spin Liquid Candidate NaCaNi_{2}F_{7}.


Journal

Physical review letters
ISSN: 1079-7114
Titre abrégé: Phys Rev Lett
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 0401141

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
26 Apr 2019
Historique:
received: 30 10 2018
entrez: 11 5 2019
pubmed: 11 5 2019
medline: 11 5 2019
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

We study the dynamical structure factor of the spin-1 pyrochlore material NaCaNi_{2}F_{7}, which is well described by a weakly perturbed nearest-neighbour Heisenberg Hamiltonian, Our three approaches-molecular dynamics simulations, stochastic dynamical theory, and linear spin wave theory-reproduce remarkably well the momentum dependence of the experimental inelastic neutron scattering intensity as well as its energy dependence with the exception of the lowest energies. We discuss two surprising aspects and their implications for quantum spin liquids in general: the complete lack of sharp quasiparticle excitations in momentum space and the success of the linear spin wave theory in a regime where it would be expected to fail for several reasons.

Identifiants

pubmed: 31075014
doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.167203
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

167203

Auteurs

Shu Zhang (S)

Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA.
Institute for Quantum Matter, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA.

Hitesh J Changlani (HJ)

Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA.
Institute for Quantum Matter, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA.
Department of Physics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306, USA.
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Tallahassee, Florida 32304, USA.

Kemp W Plumb (KW)

Department of Physics, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA.

Oleg Tchernyshyov (O)

Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA.
Institute for Quantum Matter, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA.

Roderich Moessner (R)

Max-Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, 01187 Dresden, Germany.

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