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Simulating Spin Dynamics of Supersolid States in a Quantum Ising Magnet K<sub>2</sub>Co(SeO<sub>3</sub>)<sub>2</sub>

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Abstract

Motivated by the recent neutron scattering experiments on a quantum Ising magnet K2Co(SeO3)2 where spectroscopic evidence of zero-field supersolidity was presented [1,2], we simulate the excitation spectrum of the corresponding microscopic XXZ model for the compound, using the recently developed excitation ansatz of infinite projected entangled-pair states (iPEPS). [3] We map out the ground state phase diagram and compute the dynamical spin structure factors across a range of magnetic field strengths, focusing especially on the two supersolid phases found near zero and saturation fields. Our simulated excitation spectra for the zero-field supersolid "Y" phase are in excellent agreement with the experimental data - recovering the low-energy branches and integer quantized excited energy levels ωn=nJzz. Furthermore, we demonstrate the nonlocal multi-spin-flip features for those high-lying modes, indicative of their multi-magnon nature. Additionally, we identify characteristics of the high-field supersolid "Ψ" phase in the simulated spectra, to be compared with future experimental results.

Publication: [1] M. Zhu, V. Romerio, N. Steiger, S. D. Nabi, N. Murai, S. Ohira-Kawamura, K. Yu. Povarov, Y. Skourski, R. Sibille, L. Keller, Z. Yan, S. Gvasaliya, A. Zheludev. Continuum excitations in a spin-supersolid on a triangular lattice. arXiv: 2401.16581<br>[2] Tong Chen, Alireza Ghasemi, Junyi Zhang, Liyu Shi, Zhenisbek Tagay, Lei Chen, Eun-Sang Choi, Marcelo Jaime, Minseong Lee, Yiqing Hao, Huibo Cao, Barry Winn, Ruidan Zhong, Xianghan Xu, NP Armitage, Robert Cava, Collin Broholm. Phase Diagram and Spectroscopic Evidence of Supersolids in Quantum Ising Magnet K2Co(SeO3)2. arXiv:2402.15869<br>[3] Yi Xu, Juraj Hasik, Boris Pension, Andriy H. Nevidomskyy. Simulating Spin Dynamics of Supersolid States in a Quantum Ising Magnet. arXiv: 2405.05151

Presenters

  • Yi Xu

    Rice University

Authors

  • Yi Xu

    Rice University

  • Juraj Hasik

    Department of Physics, University of Zurich

  • Boris Ponsioen

    Institute for Theoretical Physics and Delta Institute for Theoretical Physics

  • Andriy H Nevidomskyy

    Rice University