Topological paramagnetic excitons of localized f electrons on the honeycomb lattice

Abstract

We investigate the dispersive paramagnetic excitons on the honeycomb lattice that originate from the crystalline-electric field (CEF) split localized f-electron states in the paramagnetic state due to intersite exchange. We start with a symmetry analysis of possible Ising-type singlet-singlet and xy-type singlet-doublet models. The former supports only symmetric intersite-exchange while the latter additionally allows for antisymmetric Dzyaloshinski-Moriya (DM) exchange interactions. We calculate the closed expressions for magnetic exciton dispersion using both response function formalism and the bosonic Bogoliubov approach. We do this for the most general model that shows inversion symmetry breaking on the honeycomb lattice but also discuss interesting special cases. By calculating Berry curvatures and Chern numbers of paramagnetic excitons we show that the xy model supports nontrivial topological states in a wide range of parameters. This leads to the existence of excitonic topological edge states with Dirac dispersion lying in the zone boundary gap without the presence of magnetic order.

arXiv comment22 pages, 6 figures

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