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Dirac Magnons in Honeycomb Ferromagnets
Stockholm University, Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics (Nordita).
Stockholm University, Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics (Nordita). Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden; Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3397-0308
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Number of Authors: 72018 (English)In: Physical Review X, E-ISSN 2160-3308, Vol. 8, no 1, article id 011010Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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The discovery of the Dirac electron dispersion in graphene [A. H. Castro Neto, et al., The Electronic Properties of Graphene, Rev. Mod. Phys. 81, 109 (2009)] led to the question of the Dirac cone stability with respect to interactions. Coulomb interactions between electrons were shown to induce a logarithmic renormalization of the Dirac dispersion. With a rapid expansion of the list of compounds and quasiparticle bands with linear band touching [T. O. Wehling, et al., Dirac Materials, Adv. Phys. 63, 1 (2014)], the concept of bosonic Dirac materials has emerged. We consider a specific case of ferromagnets consisting of van der Waals-bonded stacks of honeycomb layers, e.g., chromium trihalides CrX3 (X = F, Cl, Br and I), that display two spin wave modes with energy dispersion similar to that for the electrons in graphene. At the single-particle level, these materials resemble their fermionic counterparts. However, how different particle statistics and interactions affect the stability of Dirac cones has yet to be determined. To address the role of interacting Dirac magnons, we expand the theory of ferromagnets beyond the standard Dyson theory [F. J. Dyson, General Theory of Spin-Wave Interactions, Phys. Rev. 102, 1217 (1956), F. J. Dyson, Thermodynamic Behavior of an Ideal Ferromagnet, Phys. Rev. 102, 1230 (1956)] to the case of non-Bravais honeycomb layers. We demonstrate that magnon-magnon interactions lead to a significant momentum-dependent renormalization of the bare band structure in addition to strongly momentum-dependent magnon lifetimes. We show that our theory qualitatively accounts for hitherto unexplained anomalies in nearly half-century-old magnetic neutron-scattering data for CrBr3 [W.B. Yelon and R. Silberglitt, Renormalization of Large-Wave-Vector Magnons in Ferromagnetic CrBr3 Studied by Inelastic Neutron Scattering: Spin-Wave Correlation Effects, Phys. Rev. B 4, 2280 (1971), E. J. Samuelsen, et al., Spin Waves in Ferromagnetic CrBr3 Studied by Inelastic Neutron Scattering, Phys. Rev. B 3, 157 (1971)]. We also show that honeycomb ferromagnets display dispersive surface and edge states, unlike their electronic analogs.

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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-153819DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.8.011010ISI: 000423312900001OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-153819DiVA, id: diva2:1189578
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