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Comprehensive study of the dynamics of a classical Kitaev spin liquid by Samarakoon, A. M.; Banerjee, A.; Zhang, S. -S.; Kamiya, Y.; Nagler, S. E.; Tennant, D. A.; Lee, S. -H.; Batista, C. D. is a scholarly article available to read on EtoBox.

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We study the spin-$S$ Kitaev model in the classical ($S \to \infty$) limit using Monte Carlo simulations combined with semi-classical spin dynamics. We discuss differences and similarities in the dynamical structure factors of the spin-$1/2$ and the classical Kitaev liquids. Interestingly, the low-temperature and low-energy spectrum of the classical model exhibits a finite energy peak, which is the precursor of the one produced by the Majorana modes of the $S=1/2$ model. The classical peak is spectrally narrowed compared to the quantum result and can be explained by magnon excitations within fluctuating one-dimensional manifolds (loops). Hence the difference from the classical limit to the quantum limit can be understood by the fractionalization of magnons propagating in one-dimensional manifolds. Moreover, we show that the momentum space distribution of the low-energy spectral weight of the $S=1/2$ model follows the momentum space distribution of zero modes of the classical model.

Author

Samarakoon, A. M.; Banerjee, A.; Zhang, S. -S.; Kamiya, Y.; Nagler, S. E.; Tennant, D. A.; Lee, S. -H.; Batista, C. D.

Published

2017

Language

EN