Raman scattering in a Heisenberg S=12 antiferromagnet on the anisotropic triangular lattice

Natalia B. Perkins, Gia-Wei Chern, and Wolfram Brenig
Phys. Rev. B 87, 174423 – Published 22 May 2013

Abstract

We investigate the two-magnon Raman scattering from an anisotropic S=12 triangular Heisenberg antiferromagnet Cs2CuCl4. We find that the Raman response is very sensitive to magnon-magnon interactions and to scattering geometries, a feature that is in remarkable contrast with the polarization-independent Raman signal from the isotropic triangular Heisenberg antiferromagnet. Since a spin-liquid ground state gives rise to a similar rotationally invariant Raman response, our results on the polarization dependence of the scattering spectrum suggest that Raman spectroscopy provides a useful probe, complementary to neutron scattering, of the ground-state properties of Cs2CuCl4, particularly whether the time-reversal symmetry is broken in the ground state.

  • Received 11 December 2012

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.87.174423

©2013 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Natalia B. Perkins1, Gia-Wei Chern1,2, and Wolfram Brenig3

  • 1Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
  • 2Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA
  • 3Institute for Theoretical Physics, Technical University Braunschweig, Mendelssohnstr. 3, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany

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Vol. 87, Iss. 17 — 1 May 2013

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