Exact one- and two-particle excitation spectra of acute-angle helimagnets above their saturation magnetic field

Abstract

The two-magnon problem for the frustrated XXZ spin-1/2 Heisenberg Hamiltonian and external magnetic fields exceeding the saturation field Bs is considered. We show that the problem can be exactly mapped onto an effective tight-binding impurity problem. It allows to obtain explicit exact expressions for the two-magnon Green's functions for arbitrary dimension and number of interactions. We apply this theory to a quasi-one dimensional helimagnet with ferromagnetic nearest neighbor J1 < 0 and antiferromagnetic next-nearest neighbor J2 > 0 interactions. An outstanding feature of the excitation spectrum is the existence of two-magnon bound states. This leads to deviations of the saturation field Bs from its classical value Bs(classical) which coincides with the one-magnon instability. For the refined frustration ratio |J2/J1|> 0.374661 the minimum of the two-magnon spectrum occurs at the boundary of the Brillouin zone. Based on the two-magnon approach, we propose general analytic expressions for the saturation field Bs, confirming known previous results for one-dimensional isotropic systems, but explore also the role of interchain and long-ranged intrachain interactions as well as of the exchange anisotropy.

21 pages, 6 Figures. submitted to Phys. Rev. B

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