Theoretical analysis of multi-magnon excitations in resonant inelastic x-ray scattering spectra of two-dimensional antiferromagnets

Abstract

Resonant inelastic x-ray spectroscopy (RIXS) has emerged as an important tool to explore magnetism in two-dimensional (2D) antiferromagnet realized in strongly correlated materials. Here we consider the Heisenberg model with nearest and next nearest neighbor hopping relevant to the study of magnetic excitations of the cuprate family. We compute the RIXS cross-section within the ultra-short core-hole lifetime (UCL) expansion of the Kramers-Heisenberg scattering amplitude that allows perturbative solution within linear spin wave theory (LSWT). We report detailed results for both spin-conserving and non-conserving channels. Apart from the widely discussed single magnon and bimagnon contributions, we show that three-magnon contributions in the spin non-conserving channel are useful to explain certain features of the RIXS data for two-dimensional cuprates. We confirm the qualitative correctness of the LSWT conclusions for the three-magnon excitation with exact diagonalization. Our work puts constraints on the dispersion of the three-magnon in the Brillouin zone, opening new avenues for realizing higher modes of quasiparticles using RIXS.

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