Effect of Dirac Spinons on ARPES signatures of Herbertsmithe
arXiv:1210.7819 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.87.104415
Abstract
The spinon continues to be an elusive elementary excitation of frustrated antiferromagnets. To solidify evidence for its existence, we address the question of what will be the Angle Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy (ARPES) signatures of single crystal samples of Herbertsmithite assuming it is described by the Dirac spin liquid state. In particular, we show that the electron spectral function will have a linear in energy dependence near specific wave vectors and that this dependence is expected even after fluctuations to the mean field values are taken into account. Observation of this unique signature in ARPES will provide very strong evidence for the existence of spinons in greater than one dimension.
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