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Thermal Evolution of Dirac Magnons in the Honeycomb Ferromagnet CrBr$_3$

Authors :
Nikitin, S. E.
Fåk, B.
Krämer, K. W.
Fennell, T.
Normand, B.
Läuchli, A. M.
Rüegg, Ch.
Source :
Physical Review Letters 129, 127201 (2022)
Publication Year :
2022

Abstract

CrBr$_3$ is an excellent realization of the two-dimensional honeycomb ferromagnet, which offers a bosonic equivalent of graphene with Dirac magnons and topological character. We perform inelastic neutron scattering (INS) measurements using state-of-the-art instrumentation to update 50-year-old data, thereby enabling a definitive comparison both with recent experimental claims of a significant gap at the Dirac point and with theoretical predictions for thermal magnon renormalization. We demonstrate that CrBr$_3$ has next-neighbor $J_2$ and $J_3$ interactions approximately 5\% of $J_1$, an ideal Dirac magnon dispersion at the K point, and the associated signature of isospin winding. The magnon lifetime and the thermal band renormalization show the universal $T^2$ evolution expected from an interacting spin-wave treatment, but the measured dispersion lacks the predicted van Hove features, highlighting the need for a deeper theoretical analysis.

Details

Database :
arXiv
Journal :
Physical Review Letters 129, 127201 (2022)
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.2204.11355
Document Type :
Working Paper
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.127201