| Literature DB >> 29400534 |
Zhu-Xi Luo1, Ethan Lake1, Jia-Wei Mei2, Oleg A Starykh1.
Abstract
We describe electron spin resonance in a quantum spin liquid with significant spin-orbit coupling. We find that the resonance directly probes spinon continuum, which makes it an efficient and informative probe of exotic excitations of the spin liquid. Specifically, we consider spinon resonance of three different spinon mean-field Hamiltonians, obtained with the help of projective symmetry group analysis, which model a putative quantum spin liquid state of the triangular rare-earth antiferromagnet YbMgGaO_{4}. The band of absorption is found to be very broad and exhibit strong van Hove singularities of single spinon spectrum as well as pronounced polarization dependence.Entities:
Year: 2018 PMID: 29400534 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.037204
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Phys Rev Lett ISSN: 0031-9007 Impact factor: 9.161