Confinement of Fractional Excitations in a Triangular Lattice Antiferromagnet

L. Facheris, S. D. Nabi, A. Glezer Moshe, U. Nagel, T. Rõõm, K. Yu. Povarov, J. R. Stewart, Z. Yan, and A. Zheludev
Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 256702 – Published 22 June 2023
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Abstract

High-resolution neutron and THz spectroscopies are used to study the magnetic excitation spectrum of Cs2CoBr4, a distorted-triangular-lattice antiferromagnet with nearly XY-type anisotropy. What was previously thought of as a broad excitation continuum [L. Facheris et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 087201 (2022)] is shown to be a series of dispersive bound states reminiscent of “Zeeman ladders” in quasi-one-dimensional Ising systems. At wave vectors where interchain interactions cancel at the mean field level, they can indeed be interpreted as bound finite-width kinks in individual chains. Elsewhere in the Brillouin zone their true two-dimensional structure and propagation are revealed.

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  • Received 31 January 2023
  • Revised 13 April 2023
  • Accepted 17 May 2023

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.256702

© 2023 American Physical Society

Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

Condensed Matter, Materials & Applied Physics

Authors & Affiliations

L. Facheris1,*, S. D. Nabi1, A. Glezer Moshe2, U. Nagel2, T. Rõõm2, K. Yu. Povarov1,†, J. R. Stewart3, Z. Yan1, and A. Zheludev1,‡

  • 1Laboratory for Solid State Physics, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
  • 2National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics, Akadeemia tee 23, 12618 Tallinn, Estonia
  • 3ISIS Neutron and Muon Source, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, OX11 0QX, United Kingdom

  • *lfacheri@phys.ethz.ch
  • Present address: Dresden High Magnetic Field Laboratory (HLD-EMFL) and Würzburg-Dresden Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, 01328 Dresden, Germany.
  • zhelud@ethz.ch; https://neutron.ethz.ch/

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Vol. 130, Iss. 25 — 23 June 2023

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