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Thermal Evolution of Dirac Magnons in the Honeycomb Ferromagnet CrBr3

Nikitin, S. E.
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Fåk, B.
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Krämer, K. W.
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September 13, 2022
Physical Review Letters

CrBr3 is an excellent realization of the two-dimensional honeycomb ferromagnet, which offers a bosonic equivalent of graphene with Dirac magnons and topological character. We perform inelastic neutron scattering measurements using state-of-the-art instrumentation to update 50-year-old data, thereby enabling a definitive comparison both with recent experimental claims of a significant gap at the Dirac point and with theoretical predictions for thermal magnon renormalization. We demonstrate that CrBr3 has next-neighbor J2 and J3 interactions approximately 5% of J1, an ideal Dirac magnon dispersion at the K point, and the associated signature of isospin winding. The magnon lifetime and the thermal band renormalization show the universal T^2 evolution expected from an interacting spin-wave treatment, but the measured dispersion lacks the predicted van Hove features, pointing to the need for more sophisticated theoretical analysis.

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DOI
10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.127201
Author(s)
Nikitin, S. E.
Fåk, B.
Krämer, K. W.
Fennell, T.
Normand, B.
Läuchli, A. M.  
Rüegg, Ch.
Date Issued

2022-09-13

Published in
Physical Review Letters
Volume

129

Article Number

127201

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REVIEWED

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