Spin waves in the spiral phase of a doped antiferromagnet: a strong-coupling approach

2001/05/03 by N. Dupuis, Dupuis, N.
Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Condensed Matter Physics #Magnetic properties of thin films #Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism #cond-mat.str-el

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/0105063

12 pages RevTex, 11 figures

arxiv created 2001/05/03 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30

Abstract

We study spin fluctuations in the spiral phase of the two-dimensional Hubbard model at low doping on the basis of the spin-particle-hole coherent-state path integral. In the strong correlation limit, we obtain an analytical expression of the spin-wave excitations over the entire Brillouin zone except in the vicinity of \bf q=0. We discuss the validity of the Hartree-Fock and random-phase approximations in the strong-coupling limit, and compare our results with previous numerical and analytical calculations. Although the spiral phase is unstable, as shown by a negative mean-field compressibility and the presence of imaginary spin-fluctuation modes, we expect the short-wavelength fluctuation modes (with real energies) to survive in the actual ground-state of the system.

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