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A variational coupled-cluster study of magnon-density-wave excitations in quantum antiferromagnets

Y. Xian

cond-mat.str-elarXiv:cond-mat/0606813

Abstract

We extend recently proposed variational coupled-cluster method to describe excitation states of quantum antiferromagnetic bipartite lattices. We reproduce the spin-wave excitations (i.e., magnons with spin 1). In addition, we obtain a new, spin-zero excitation (magnon-density waves) which has been missing in all existing spin-wave theories. Within our approximation, this magnon-density-wave excitation has a nonzero energy gap in a cubic lattice and is gapless in a square lattice, similar to those charge-density-wave excitations (plasmons) in quantum electron gases.

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