Schwinger boson mean field perspective on emergent spins in diluted Heisenberg antiferromagnets

Abstract

Using an adaptation of Schwinger boson mean field theory (SBMFT) for nonuniform systems, we study the nature of low-energy spin excitations on the square and Bethe lattice at their percolation threshold. The optimal SBMFT parameters are interpreted as on-site potentials and pairing amplitudes, which enables an explanation of why emergent local moments develop in this system on dilution [L. Wang and A. W. Sandvik, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 117204 (2006); H.J. Changlani et al., ibid 111, 157201 (2013)] and why the corresponding single particle frequencies are driven to anomalously low values. We discuss how our mean field calculations suggest the strong link between the presence of sublattice imbalance and long range antiferromagnetic order, and why linear spin wave theory is inadequate for capturing this relation. Within the SBMFT framework, we also extract an energy scale for the interaction between emergent moments, which show qualitative agreement with many-body calculations.

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