Magnon peak lineshape in the transverse dynamical structure factor of a magnetically polarized easy-axis $XXZ$ chain at low temperatures

Abstract

The ferromagnetically polarized gapped XXZ spin chain is studied at low temperatures. Utilizing only the one- and two-magnon spectrums and focusing on the magnon-creation contribution to the transverse dynamical susceptibility, we represent the latter in the form of the Dyson equation. Then, following the well known correspondence between the imaginary part of magnetic susceptibility and dynamical structure factor, we get the low-temperature formula for the magnon-peak lineshape. The suggested approach is effective only if the processes related to magnon creations and to transitions from magnons to coupled magnon pairs are energetically separated. As it is shown in the paper, such separation is inherent in the easy-axis chains with rather strong anisotropy. We present several plots and discuss their lineshapes. As the supplemental result we obtain integral representations for the temperature-dependent magnon resonance shift and the parameter which is usually associated with the decay rate. The low-temperature behavior of the resonance shift is studied in details. All calculations are performed up to {\it controllable} error $o({\rm e}^{-\beta E_{gap}})$.