Simulating spin dynamics of supersolid states in a quantum Ising magnet
Motivated by a recent experimental study on the quantum Ising magnet ${\text{K}}_{2}\text{Co}{({\text{SeO}}_{3})}_{2}$ that presented spectroscopic evidence of zero-field supersolidity (Chen et al., arXiv:2402.15869), we simulate the excitation spectrum of the corresponding microscopic $XXZ$ model for the compound using the recently developed excitation ansatz for infinite projected entangled-pair states. 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 ${\ensuremath{\omega}}_{n}=n{J}_{zz}$. Furthermore, we demonstrate the nonlocal multi-spin-flip features for modes at ${\ensuremath{\omega}}_{2}$, indicative of their multimagnon nature. Additionally, we identify characteristics of the high-field supersolid ``$\mathrm{\ensuremath{\Psi}}$'' phase in the simulated spectra, which should be compared with future experimental results.
Authors
- Juraj Hašík (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3769-0976)
- Boris Ponsioen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1558-2344)
- Yi Xu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7437-9904)
- Andriy H. Nevidomskyy (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8684-7979)
Institutions
- University of Zurich (CH)
- Delta Institute for Theoretical Physics (NL)
- Rice University (US)
- University of Amsterdam (NL)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Physical review. B./Physical review. B
- Published
- 2025-02-04
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.111.l060402
- Citations
- 9
- Primary Topic
- Quantum many-body systems
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 11.22
Funders
- National Science Foundation
- U.S. Department of Energy
- Rice University
- Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung
- European Research Council
- Horizon 2020
- Basic Energy Sciences