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量子自旋冰Yb $_2$ Ti $_2$ O $_7$中新自旋激发的低能电动力学研究

Low Energy Electrodynamics of Novel Spin Excitations in the Quantum Spin Ice Yb$_2$Ti$_2$O$_7$

LiDong Pan, Se Kwon Kim, A. Ghosh, Christopher M. Morris, Kate A. Ross, Edwin Kermarrec, Bruce D. Gaulin, S. M. Koohpayeh, Oleg Tchernyshyov, N. P. Armitage

摘要:

在凝聚态系统中,对称性破缺的长程序(LRO)的形成往往伴随着新的激发。然而,在许多磁性烧绿石氧化物,几何挫折抑制传统的LRO,而在同一时间观察到非平凡的自旋相关。对于这样的材料,一个自然的问题是,在这种高度相关的状态下,没有对称性破缺,激发的性质是什么?通常,对称破缺场的应用可以稳定激发,其性质仍然反映了没有长程序的反常态的某些方面。在这里,我们报告的量子自旋冰材料Yb $_2$ Ti $_2$ O $_7$中的新的磁激发的证据,从时域太赫兹光谱(TMF)。在大磁场下,在$<$ 001 $>$定向磁场中观察到磁振子和双磁振子激发,说明了场诱导LRO态的稳定性。独特的能力,测量复杂的响应函数允许直接研究磁响应在不同的极化通道,揭示了一个不寻常的左手极化磁振子的存在。这些激发的g因子在低场极限下显著增强,表明这些一个和两个磁振子状态交叉成与量子弦状激发相一致的特征,该特征被提出存在于小$<$ 001 $>$施加场的量子自旋冰中。

英文摘要:

In condensed matter systems, the formation of long range order (LRO) with broken symmetry is often accompanied by new types of excitations. However, in many magnetic pyrochlore oxides, geometrical frustration suppresses conventional LRO while at the same time non-trivial spin correlations are observed. For such materials, a natural question to ask then is what is the nature of the excitations in this highly correlated state without broken symmetry? Frequently the application of a symmetry breaking field can stabilize excitations whose properties still reflect certain aspects of the anomalous state without long-range order. Here we report evidence of novel magnetic excitations in the quantum spin ice material Yb$_2$Ti$_2$O$_7$, obtained from time-domain terahertz spectroscopy (TDTS). At large fields, both magnon and two-magnon-like excitations are observed in a $<$001$>$ directed magnetic field illustrating the stabilization of a field induced LRO state. The unique ability of TDTS to measure complex response functions allows a direct study of magnetic responses in different polarization channels, revealing the existence of an unusual left-hand polarized magnon. The g-factors of these excitations are dramatically enhanced in the low-field limit, showing a cross-over of these one- and two-magnon states into features consistent with quantum string-like excitations proposed to exist in quantum spin ice in a small $<$001$>$ applied field.

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