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Evolution of magnetic Dirac bosons in a honeycomb lattice
Document Type
Working Paper
Source
Phys. Rev. B 97, 014433 (2018)
Subject
Condensed Matter - Strongly Correlated Electrons
Condensed Matter - Materials Science
Condensed Matter - Other Condensed Matter
Language
Abstract
We examine the presence and evolution of magnetic Dirac nodes in the Heisenberg honeycomb lattice. Using linear spin theory, we evaluate the collinear phase diagram as well as the change in the spin dynamics with various exchange interactions. We show that the ferromagnetic structure produces bosonic Dirac and Weyl points due to the competition between superexchange interactions. Furthermore, it is shown that the criteria for magnetic Dirac nodes are coupled to the magnetic structure and not the overall crystal symmetry, where the breaking of inversion symmetry greatly affects the antiferromagnetic configurations. The tunability of the nodal points through variation of the exchange parameters leads to the possibility of controlling Dirac symmetries through an external manipulation of the orbital interactions.
Comment: 9 pages, 7 figures, Submitted for publication