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Kitaev超蜂窝$β$ $_2$ IrO $_3$中的磁振子-自旋二分性

Magnon-spinon dichotomy in the Kitaev hyperhoneycomb $β$-Li$_2$IrO$_3$

Alejandro Ruiz, Nicholas P. Breznay, Mengqun Li, Ioannis Rousochatzakis, Anthony Allen, Isaac Zinda, Vikram Nagarajan, Gilbert Lopez, Mary H. Upton, Jungho Kim,… 展开作者

Alejandro Ruiz, Nicholas P. Breznay, Mengqun Li, Ioannis Rousochatzakis, Anthony Allen, Isaac Zinda, Vikram Nagarajan, Gilbert Lopez, Mary H. Upton, Jungho Kim, Ayman H. Said, Xian-Rong Huang, Thomas Gog, Diego Casa, Robert J. Birgeneau, Jake D. Koralek, James G. Analytis, Natalia B. Perkins, Alex Frano

摘要:

近年来,边缘共享的三配位的铱酸盐和铱酸盐家族已经成为Kitaev自旋液体物理学的主要平台,其中自旋分裂成涌现的磁通量和具有Dirac样色散的Majorana费米子。虽然这种奇异的状态通常在低温下被长程磁序所取代,但具有长相干时间的马约拉纳费米子的签名已被预测在中等和更高的能量尺度下出现,类似于准一维自旋链中自旋子的观察。本文用共振非弹性X射线散射研究了超蜂窝状铱酸盐$β$ IrO $_3$在磁场作用下的磁激发。在低温下,分散自旋波可以解决周围的预测交织的无公度螺旋和场诱导的锯齿形订单,其激发能达到最大值为16 meV。2 T磁场软化了${\bf Q}=0$周围的色散。自旋波在磁场下的行为与我们对基态和动力学自旋结构因子的半经典计算一致,这进一步预测了随后的纠缠均匀态在很高的场(100 T)下仍然保持稳健。最显著的是,低能的类磁振子模式被一个宽的连续激发叠加,中心在35 meV左右,延伸到100 meV。这种高能量连续体至少在300 K下仍然存在--远远高于38 K的有序温度--并为基塔耶夫自旋液体中长寿命的马约拉纳费米子对提供了证据。

英文摘要:

The family of edge-sharing tri-coordinated iridates and ruthenates has emerged in recent years as a major platform for Kitaev spin liquid physics, where spins fractionalize into emergent magnetic fluxes and Majorana fermions with Dirac-like dispersions. While such exotic states are usually pre-empted by long-range magnetic order at low temperatures, signatures of Majorana fermions with long coherent times have been predicted to manifest at intermediate and higher energy scales, similar to the observation of spinons in quasi-1D spin chains. Here we present a Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering study of the magnetic excitations of the hyperhoneycomb iridate $β$-Li$_2$IrO$_3$ under a magnetic field with a record-high-resolution spectrometer. At low-temperatures, dispersing spin waves can be resolved around the predicted intertwined incommensurate spiral and field-induced zigzag orders, whose excitation energy reaches a maximum of 16meV. A 2T magnetic field softens the dispersion around ${\bf Q}=0$. The behavior of the spin waves under magnetic field is consistent with our semiclassical calculations for the ground state and the dynamical spin structure factor, which further predicts that the ensued intertwined uniform states remain robust up to very high fields (100 T). Most saliently, the low-energy magnon-like mode is superimposed by a broad continuum of excitations, centered around 35meV and extending up to 100meV. This high-energy continuum survives up to at least 300K -- well above the ordering temperature of 38K -- and gives evidence for pairs of long-lived Majorana fermions of the proximate Kitaev spin liquid.

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