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Multiple fermion scattering in the weakly coupled spin-chain compound YbAlO₃.

ABSTRACT: The Heisenberg antiferromagnetic spin-1/2 chain, originally introduced almost a century ago, is one of the best studied models in quantum mechanics due to its exact solution, but nevertheless it continues to present new discoveries. Its low-energy physics is described by the Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid of spinless fermions, similar to the conduction electrons in one-dimensional metals. In this work we investigate the Heisenberg spin-chain compound YbAlO₃ and show that the weak interchain coupling causes Umklapp scattering between the left- and right-moving fermions and stabilizes an incommensurate spin-density wave order at q = 2k_F under finite magnetic fields. These Umklapp processes open a route to multiple coherent scattering of fermions, which results in the formation of satellites at integer multiples of the incommensurate fundamental wavevector Q = nq. Our work provides surprising and profound insight into bandstructure control for emergent fermions in quantum materials, and shows how neutron diffraction can be applied to investigate the phenomenon of coherent multiple scattering in metals through the proxy of quantum magnetic systems.

SUBMITTER: Nikitin SE

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8203633 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Multiple fermion scattering in the weakly coupled spin-chain compound YbAlO<sub>3</sub>.

Nikitin S E SE Nishimoto S S Fan Y Y Wu J J Wu L S LS Sukhanov A S AS Brando M M Pavlovskii N S NS Xu J J Vasylechko L L Yu R R Podlesnyak A A

Nature communications 20210614 1

The Heisenberg antiferromagnetic spin-1/2 chain, originally introduced almost a century ago, is one of the best studied models in quantum mechanics due to its exact solution, but nevertheless it continues to present new discoveries. Its low-energy physics is described by the Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid of spinless fermions, similar to the conduction electrons in one-dimensional metals. In this work we investigate the Heisenberg spin-chain compound YbAlO<sub>3</sub> and show that the weak interchai ...[more]

PMID: 34127661

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