Propagation and jamming dynamics in Heisenberg spin ladders
| Autor: | Carlo B. Krimphoff, Masudul Haque, Andreas Laeuchli |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Superconductivity and magnetism
Physics Condensed matter physics Spins Dynamics (mechanics) Spectrum (functional analysis) FOS: Physical sciences Jamming 01 natural sciences 010305 fluids & plasmas Chain (algebraic topology) Ferromagnetism Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas) 0103 physical sciences Condensed Matter::Strongly Correlated Electrons 010306 general physics Spin (physics) Condensed Matter - Quantum Gases |
| Zdroj: | Physical Review B |
| Popis: | We investigate the propagation dynamics of initially localized excitations in spin-1/2 Heisenberg ladders. We consider initial states with two overturned spins, either on neighboring sites on the same leg or on the two sites of a single rung, in an otherwise polarized (ferromagnetic) background. Compared to the corresponding dynamics in a chain (single leg), we observe several additional modes of propagation. We connect these propagation modes to features of the spectrum of the ladder system, and to different effective models corresponding to different segments of the spectrum. In addition to the regular propagation modes, we observe for one mode a peculiar `jamming' dynamics where components of the excitations remain localized in an unusual manner. A comparison with the spin-1 bilinear-biquadratic chain is developed and explored, where a similar phenomenon is shown to occur. 11+8 pages, 12+4 figures |
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