Scattering Theory of Chiral Edge Modes in Topological Magnon Insulators

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Autori principali: Birnkammer, Stefan, Knap, Michael, Knolle, Johannes, Mook, Alexander, Bastianello, Alvise
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author Birnkammer, Stefan
Knap, Michael
Knolle, Johannes
Mook, Alexander
Bastianello, Alvise
author_facet Birnkammer, Stefan
Knap, Michael
Knolle, Johannes
Mook, Alexander
Bastianello, Alvise
contents Topological magnon insulators exhibit robust edge modes with chiral properties similar to quantum Hall edge states. However, due to their strong localization at the edges, interactions between these chiral edge magnons can be significant, as we show in a model of coupled magnon-conserving spin chains in an electric field gradient. The chiral edge modes remain edge-localized and do not scatter into the bulk, and we characterize their scattering phase: for strongly-localized edge modes we observe significant deviation from the bare scattering phase. This renormalization of edge scattering can be attributed to bound bulk modes resonating with the chiral edge magnons, in the spirit of Feshbach resonances in atomic physics. We argue that the scattering dynamics can be probed experimentally with a real-time measurement protocol using inelastic scanning tunneling spectroscopy. Our results show that interaction among magnons can be encoded in an effective edge model of reduced dimensionality, where the interactions with the bulk renormalize the effective couplings. Our work introduces a systematic way to determine the many-body effective theory for edge states in topological magnon insulators.
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spellingShingle Scattering Theory of Chiral Edge Modes in Topological Magnon Insulators
Birnkammer, Stefan
Knap, Michael
Knolle, Johannes
Mook, Alexander
Bastianello, Alvise
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Other Condensed Matter
Quantum Gases
Topological magnon insulators exhibit robust edge modes with chiral properties similar to quantum Hall edge states. However, due to their strong localization at the edges, interactions between these chiral edge magnons can be significant, as we show in a model of coupled magnon-conserving spin chains in an electric field gradient. The chiral edge modes remain edge-localized and do not scatter into the bulk, and we characterize their scattering phase: for strongly-localized edge modes we observe significant deviation from the bare scattering phase. This renormalization of edge scattering can be attributed to bound bulk modes resonating with the chiral edge magnons, in the spirit of Feshbach resonances in atomic physics. We argue that the scattering dynamics can be probed experimentally with a real-time measurement protocol using inelastic scanning tunneling spectroscopy. Our results show that interaction among magnons can be encoded in an effective edge model of reduced dimensionality, where the interactions with the bulk renormalize the effective couplings. Our work introduces a systematic way to determine the many-body effective theory for edge states in topological magnon insulators.
title Scattering Theory of Chiral Edge Modes in Topological Magnon Insulators
topic Strongly Correlated Electrons
Other Condensed Matter
Quantum Gases
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.05378