The field- and frequency-dependence of Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) in the Shastry–Sutherland lattice with small Dzyaloshinsky–Moriya (DM) interaction is studied by the direct numerical estimation of the Kubo formula. Beside the strong paramagnetic resonance, we find the resonance due to the transitions between the triplet and singlet levels which are prohibited in the case without the DM interaction. Furthermore, we find the resonance which is distributed in a wide range of the field for a specific frequency, which corresponds to the transition between the states with the same magnetization.
The electron spin resonance spectrum of the
XXZ spin chain with finite length shows a double-peak structure at high temperatures around the electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) frequency. This fact has been pointed out by direct numerical methods [S. El Shawish, O. C\'epas, and S. Miyashita, Phys. Rev. B 81, 224421 (2010); H. Ikeuchi, H. De Raedt, S. Bertaina, and S. Miyashita, Phys. Rev. B 92, 214431 (2015)]. The question of whether the double-peak structure survives in the thermodynamics is of particular interest. We study the size dependence of the line shape, including the even-odd effect. It is found that the peaks forming the double-peak structure are assigned to individual resonances, each of which is specified by the magnetizations of the resonating states $(M,M\ensuremath{-}1)$. To understand dependences, we decompose the spectrum into contributions from transitions specified by the magnetization, and we characterize the structure of the spectrum by individual contributions. We analyze the size dependence of each contribution individually by extending the moment method introduced by M. Brockman et al. to each component, and we find that the mean of each peak approaches the paramagnetic resonance point with
1/N (where
N is the length of the chain), which indicates that the separation of the peaks of the double-peak structure also vanishes inversely with the system size. We also study the temperature dependence of the structure. At low temperatures, the spectrum has a single peak with a finite width at a position with a finite shift from the frequency of EPR, as pointed out by the analysis of field-theoretical works [M. Oshikawa and I. Affleck, Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 5136 (1999)]. The study of the temperature dependence of the spectrum shows how the high-temperature spectrum changes to the low-temperature one with a drastic broadening of the spectrum.
This paper presents numerical results of the ESR absorption spectrum for
S=21 XY model in one dimension. We obtain detailed numerical results for a wide range of temperature and magnetic field for a large system of 400 sites, using the method developed by Derzhko et al. In the high-temperature regime, a similar behavior is observed for both the ferromagnet and the antiferromagnet; these line shapes have only one peak. On the other hand, in the low-temperature regime, line shapes show very different behaviors depending on the sign of the exchange coupling. While the line shape for the ferromagnet has only one peak as in the high-temperature regime, the line shape for antiferromagnet has two peaks and shows very strong magnetic-field dependence. We also discuss the physical meaning by comparing our numerical results with several theoretical results: the exact result in the high-temperature limit, Kubo-Tomita theory, field theory, mean-field theory, and elementary excitations.
A systematic field-theory approach to electron spin resonance (ESR) in the
S=1/2 quantum antiferromagnetic chain at low temperature T (compared to the exchange coupling J) is developed. In particular, effects of a transverse staggered field h and an exchange anisotropy (including a dipolar interaction) \ensuremath{\delta} on the ESR line shape are discussed. In the lowest order perturbation theory, the linewidth is given as $\ensuremath{\propto}{\mathrm{Jh}}^{2}{/T}^{2}$ and $\ensuremath{\propto}(\ensuremath{\delta}{/J)}^{2}T,$ respectively. In the case of a transverse staggered field, the perturbative expansion diverges at lower temperature; nonperturbative effects at very low temperature are discussed using exact results on the sine-Gordon field theory. We also compare our field-theory results with the predictions of Kubo-Tomita theory for the high-temperature regime, and discuss the crossover between the two regimes. It is argued that a naive application of the standard Kubo-Tomita theory to the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction gives an incorrect result. A rigorous and exact identity on the polarization dependence is derived for certain class of anisotropy, and compared with the field-theory results.
The calculation of finite temperature electron spin resonance (ESR) spectra for concrete specified crystal configurations is a very important issue in the study of quantum spin systems. Although direct evaluation of the Kubo formula by means of numerical diagonalization yields exact results, memory and CPU time restrictions limit the applicability of this approach to small system sizes. Methods based on the time evolution of a single pure quantum state can be used to study larger systems. One such method exploits the property that the expectation value of the autocorrelation function obtained for a few samples of so-called thermal typical states yields a good estimate of the thermal equilibrium value. In this paper, we propose a new method based on a Wiener-Khinchin-like theorem for quantum system. By comparison with exact diagonalization results, it is shown that both methods yield correct results. As the Wiener-Khinchin-based method involves sampling over thermal typical states, we study the statistical properties of the sampling distribution. Effects due to finite observation time are investigated and found to differ for the two methods but it is also found that, for both methods, the effects vanish as the system size increases. We present ESR spectra of the one-dimensional XXZ Heisenberg chain of up to 28 spins and discuss the dependence of separation of double peaks on the chain length.