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Long-range spin correlations in a honeycomb spin model with magnetic field
A. V. Lunkinab,
K. S. Tikhonovba,
M. V. Feigel'manba a Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics of the RAS, 119334 Moscow, Russia
b Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, 141700 Moscow, Russia
Abstract:
We consider spin-
${1}/{2}$ model on the honeycomb lattice (Ann. Phys.
321, 2 (2006)) in presence of weak magnetic field
$h_{\alpha }\ll J$. Such a perturbation treated in the lowest nonvanishing order over
$h_\alpha$ leads (Phys. Rev. Lett.
106, 067203 (2011)) to a power-law decay of irreducible spin correlations $\left\langle \left\langle s^{z}(t,r)s^{z}(0,0)\right\rangle \right\rangle \propto h_{z}^{2}f(t,r)$, where
$f(t,r)\propto \lbrack \max (t,Jr)]^{-4}$. In the present Letter we studied the effects of the next order of perturbation in
$h_z$ and found an additional term of the order
$h_z^4$ in the correlation function $\left\langle\left\langle s^{z}(t,r)s^{z}(0,0)\right\rangle\right\rangle$ which scales as
$ h_z^4\cos\gamma/r^3$ at
$Jt \ll r$, where
$\gamma$ is the polar angle in the
$\mathrm{2D}$ plane. We demonstrate that such a contribution can be understood as a result of a perturbation of the effective Majorana Hamiltonian by weak imaginary vector potential
$A_x \propto i h_z^2$.
Received: 26.11.2015
Language: English
DOI:
10.7868/S0370274X16020089