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Magnon Dispersion and Anisotropies in SrCu2(BO3)2

Y. F. Cheng, O. Cepas, P. W. Leung, T. Ziman

cond-mat.mtrl-sciarXiv:cond-mat/0612598

Abstract

We study the dispersion of the magnons (triplet states) in SrCu2(BO3)2 including all symmetry-allowed Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions. We can reduce the complexity of the general Hamiltonian to a new simpler form by appropriate rotations of the spin operators. The resulting Hamiltonian is studied by both perturbation theory and exact numerical diagonalization on a 32-site cluster. We argue that the dispersion is dominated by Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions. We point out which combinations of these anisotropies affect the dispersion to linear-order, and extract their magnitudes.

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