The bound state problems associated with two magnons in a linear chain of spin 1/2 with nearest and next nearest neighbor exchange integrals, J and α J , respectively, are studied. The Hamiltonian is rewritten in terms of the Fermi operators in place of spin operators, and an integral equation to determine the bound state energies is obtained. In the cases when the total wave number K of two magnons is π or π/2, analytical solutions are easily obtained. A part of the present results disagrees with Majumdar's ones. Computer studies on the bound states are performed for a finite chain composed of spins up to twenty. They are consistent with the analytical results.
A study of two-magnon bound states in the next-nearest-neighbour (NNN) ferromagnetic Heisenberg chain begun by Majumdar in 1969 is extended by finding the bound states and continuum resonances for all pair wave-vectors for eta =J 2 /J 1 in the ferromagnetic range of eta =-1/4 to infinity. An exact Green function formalism is combined with the exact analytic results recently obtained by the authors for the lattice Green functions of the system to afford a definitive analysis. The Heisenberg case exhibits a modified nearest-neighbour (NN) type bound state throughout the range of eta studied and for total pair wave-vector (K=k 1 +k 2 ) throughout the zone, in contrast to Majumdar who concluded that this was only the case for positive eta . The continuum also possesses a rich structure which is displayed via a shaded (grey-level) intensity plot in the ( omega , K) plane. An unexpected result is the presence of a second (anti-)bound state just above the continuum for negative eta . The evolution of the bound state and resonance structure is also examined for the transition to dominant NNN interactions. A general formulation is given which includes Ising and uniaxial anisotropies as well as biquadratic exchange for arbitrary range, dimension and Bravais lattice.
We consider a two-magnon systems in an ν-dimensional isotropic non-Heisenberg ferromagnet with spin value S = 3/2 and nearest-neighbor interactions. Spectrum and bound states (BS) of the system for all values of full quasi-momentum Λ, and for arbitrary value of lattice dimensionality ν, and for all values of Hamiltonian parameters are investigated. We show that (i) for arbitrary ν ≥ 2 and for full quasi-momentum in the form Λ = (Λ1; Λ2; … ;Λν) = (Λ0;Λ0; …; Λ0) the change of energy spectrum of the system is similar to that observed in the case of ν = 1. In this case the operator [Formula: see text] with J + J1 - 23J2 ≠ 0 has only one additional BS. (ii) The energy z of this additional BS is degenerate ν - 1 times. (iii) If Λ ≠ (Λ0;Λ0;…;Λ0), we show the existence no more 2ν + 1 bound states in the system in ν-dimensional lattice.
The spectra of both two- and three-magnon excitations in Heisenberg spin chains with next-nearest-neighbour (NNN) interactions are studied using scaling methods and the recursion method respectively. Both two-spin and three-spin couplings are considered for general spin S. In the three-magnon case, the asymptotic behaviour of the recursion coefficients can be used to directly identify the presence of bound states in the spectrum. Both integrable and non-integrable models can be studied, and the integrable models display special features in the bound-state spectra. Our results for the three-magnon bound states of S = 1 chains differ appreciably from those obtained in previous studies based upon an integral equation approach.
We investigate the relation between magnon, magnon bound states, and the classical soliton solutions in the isotropic, the anisotropic-exchange, and the easy-axis ferromagnetic Heisenberg chains. The Dyson-Maleev boson representation is used to study the interaction between magnons, and bound states are investigated in terms of two-spin Green's functions. For easy-axis and anisotropic-exchange magnets, a mapping to the Bose gas with attractive $\ensuremath{\delta}$-function interactions is established, and it yields the eigenvalues of the magnon and the
mth bound state in the weak-coupling and continuum limits. The classical limit of the two-spin Green's function reveals that, to leading order in temperature, the bound-state resonance and the associated effects on the two-magnon continuum survives. An important result is a
T2 dependence of the "binding" energy of the bound-state resonance. As a consequence, in a classical description the bound states enter only in order
T2. Finally, we quantize the soliton solutions according to the Bohr-Sommerfeld and de Broglie rules. This approach is found to be exact for the
s=21 isotropic Heisenberg chain and for sufficiently small wave numbers for all
s values. In the anisotropic-exchange and easy-axis models, it agrees with the results obtained from the mapping on the Bose gas, for large quantum numbers and in the easy-axis case for $s\ensuremath{\gg}\frac{1}{2}$ in addition. On this basis, we conclude that the envelope solitons considered here lead to bound-state resonances and associated effects in a classical treatment. Moreover, their semiclassical quantization gives remarkably accurate energy levels.