Brenig W, Chernyshev AL. Highly dispersive scattering from defects in noncollinear magnets.
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2013;
110:157203. [PMID:
25167304 DOI:
10.1103/physrevlett.110.157203]
[Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2012] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
Abstract
We demonstrate that pointlike defects in noncollinear magnets give rise to a highly dispersive structure in the magnon scattering, violating a standard paradigm of its momentum independence. For a single impurity spin coupled to a prototypical noncollinear antiferromagnet, we find that the resolvent is dominated by a distinct dispersive structure with its momentum dependence set by the magnon dispersion and shifted by the ordering vector. This feature is a consequence of umklapp scattering off the impurity-induced spin texture, which arises due to the noncollinear ground state of the host system. Detailed results for the staggered and uniform magnetization of this texture as well as the T matrix from numerical linear spin-wave theory are presented.
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