arXiv · 1810.00584
Stabilizing Mechanism for Bose-Einstein Condensation of Interacting Magnons in Ferrimagnets and Ferromagnets
Abstract
We propose a stabilizing mechanism for the Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) of interacting magnons in ferrimagnets and ferromagnets. By studying the effects of the magnon-magnon interaction on the stability of the magnon BEC in a ferrimagnet and two ferromagnets, we show that the magnon BEC remains stable even in the presence of the magnon-magnon interaction in the ferrimagnet and ferromagnet with a sublattice structure, whereas it becomes unstable in the ferromagnet without a sublattice structure. This indicates that the existence of a sublattice structure is the key to stabilizing the BEC of interacting magnons, and the difference between the spin alignments of a ferrimagnet and a ferromagnet is irrelevant. Our result can resolve a contradiction between experiment and theory in the magnon BEC of yttrium iron garnet. Our theoretical framework may provide a starting point for understanding the physics of the magnon BEC including the interaction effects.
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Naoya Arakawa. 2018-11-02. Stabilizing Mechanism for Bose-Einstein Condensation of Interacting Magnons in Ferrimagnets and Ferromagnets. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.121.187202
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