Magnon decay in gapped quantum spin systems

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In the O(3) sigma-model description of gapped spin systems, S=1 magnons can only decay into three lower energy magnons. We argue that the symmetry of the quantum spin Hamiltonian often allows decay into two magnons, and compute this decay rate in model systems. Two magnon decay is present in Haldane gap S=1 spin chains, even though it cannot be induced by any allowed term written in powers and gradients of the sigma-model field. We compare our results with recent measurements of Stone et al. (cond-mat/0511266) on a two-dimensional spin system.
4 pages, 3 figures

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Strongly Correlated Electrons

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http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/103234

Consulte el texto completo en el siguiente enlace:

https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0511353
 http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0511353
 Physical Review Letters 96, 087203 (2006).
 doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.087203

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