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Although the search for quantum many-body phenomena in magnetic materials has a strong focus on highly frustrated systems, even unfrustrated quantum magnets show a multitude of unconventional phenomena in their spin excitation spectra. YbBr_{3} is an excellent realization of the S=1/2 antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model on the honeycomb lattice, and we have performed detailed spectroscopic experiments with both unpolarized and polarized neutrons at all applied magnetic fields up to saturation. We observe extensive excitation continua, which cause strong renormalization and the decay of single magnons at higher fields, while coherent features include field-induced "shadows" of the single magnons and the spectacular emergence of a rotonlike excitation. To guide and interpret our experiments, we performed systematic calculations by the method of cylinder matrix-product states that provide quantitative agreement with the neutron scattering data and a qualitative benchmark for the spectral signatures of strong quantum fluctuations even in the absence of magnetic frustration.

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Physical Review Letters
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2025-10-03
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https://doi.org/10.1103/q29r-8x1m
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Advanced Condensed Matter Physics
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Field-Induced Magnon Decay, Magnon Shadows, and Rotonlike Excitations in the Honeycomb Antiferromagnet <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mrow><mml:msub><mml:mrow><mml:mi>YbBr</mml:mi></mml:mrow><mml:mrow><

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Physical Review Letters
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Field-Induced Magnon Decay, Magnon Shadows, and Rotonlike Excitations in the Honeycomb Antiferromagnet <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mrow><mml:msub><mml:mrow><mml:mi>YbBr</mml:mi></mml:mrow><mml:mrow><

D. G. Mazzone, S. Raymond, B. Roessli, Alexander A. Eberharter, B. Normand, M. Kenzelmann, Jakob Lass, Karl W. Krämer, Andreas M. Läuchli, Michael Schuler, Romain Sibille, J.A. Hernández
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Abstract

Although the search for quantum many-body phenomena in magnetic materials has a strong focus on highly frustrated systems, even unfrustrated quantum magnets show a multitude of unconventional phenomena in their spin excitation spectra. YbBr_{3} is an excellent realization of the S=1/2 antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model on the honeycomb lattice, and we have performed detailed spectroscopic experiments with both unpolarized and polarized neutrons at all applied magnetic fields up to saturation. We observe extensive excitation continua, which cause strong renormalization and the decay of single magnons at higher fields, while coherent features include field-induced "shadows" of the single magnons and the spectacular emergence of a rotonlike excitation. To guide and interpret our experiments, we performed systematic calculations by the method of cylinder matrix-product states that provide quantitative agreement with the neutron scattering data and a qualitative benchmark for the spectral signatures of strong quantum fluctuations even in the absence of magnetic frustration.

Physical Review LettersVol. 135(14)
University of Bern (CH), Universität Innsbruck (AT), Paul Scherrer Institute (CH), Institut des langues et cultures d'Europe, Amérique, Afrique, Asie et Australie (FR), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (CH), Université Grenoble Alpes (FR)
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Advanced Condensed Matter Physics
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