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Probing Anomalous Longitudinal Fluctuations of the Interacting Bose Gas via Bose-Einstein Condensation of Magnons

Andreas Kreisel, Nils Hasselmann, Peter Kopietz

cond-mat.stat-mecharXiv:cond-mat/0610575

Abstract

The emergence of a finite staggered magnetization in quantum Heisenberg antiferromagnets subject to a uniform magnetic field can be viewed as Bose-Einstein condensation of magnons. Using non-perturbative results for the infrared behavior of the interacting Bose gas, we present exact results for the staggered spin-spin correlation functions of quantum antiferromagnets in a magnetic field at zero temperature. In particular, we show that in dimensions 1 < D <= 3 the longitudinal dynamic structure factor Sparallel(q,omega) describing staggered spin fluctuations in the direction of the staggered magnetization exhibits a critical continuum whose weight can be controlled experimentally by varying the magnetic field.

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