Spinon Magnetic Resonance of Quantum Spin Liquids

We describe electron spin resonance in a quantum spin liquid with significant spin-orbit coupling. We find that the resonance directly probes spinon continuum, which makes it an efficient and informative probe of exotic excitations of the spin liquid. Specifically, we consider spinon resonance of th...

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Published in:Physical review letters 2018-01, Vol.120 (3), p.037204-037204, Article 037204
Main Authors: Luo, Zhu-Xi, Lake, Ethan, Mei, Jia-Wei, Starykh, Oleg A
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Language:English
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Summary:We describe electron spin resonance in a quantum spin liquid with significant spin-orbit coupling. We find that the resonance directly probes spinon continuum, which makes it an efficient and informative probe of exotic excitations of the spin liquid. Specifically, we consider spinon resonance of three different spinon mean-field Hamiltonians, obtained with the help of projective symmetry group analysis, which model a putative quantum spin liquid state of the triangular rare-earth antiferromagnet YbMgGaO_{4}. The band of absorption is found to be very broad and exhibit strong van Hove singularities of single spinon spectrum as well as pronounced polarization dependence.
ISSN:0031-9007
1079-7114
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.037204