Gravitational realization of magnons in a ferromagnetic spin chain

Abstract

A gravitational model of magnons in thermal equilibrium with a ferromagnetic spin chain is developed in a phenomenological bottom-up approach. A large Schwarzschild-AdS black hole background is used as the thermal reservoir and the magnon dynamics is obtained by scalar fields and branes in the bulk. The key feature of this model is that the coupling of the spin chain is related with the radial position in which the brane is located. We further study a ferromagnetic spin chain with a competing interaction and find that the couplings are related by the difference of positions of the branes. We show how to obtain the model from a weak limit of a dynamical gravitational system. This allows us to embed the model into a holographic system. The couplings can be related to entanglement entropy at finite temperature of the CFT since the turning point of minimal surfaces coincides with the position of the branes. The difference of entropy is used to define a notion of distance between the chain couplings.

arXiv comment9 pages. Heavy editing, conceptual issues corrected

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