Quantum damping of skyrmion crystal eigenmodes due to spontaneous quasiparticle decay

Skyrmion crystals support chiral magnonic edge states akin to electronic quantum Hall edge states. However, magnonic topology relies on the harmonic approximation, neglecting ubiquitous magnon-magnon interactions that yield a finite zero-temperature quantum damping. We demonstrate that spontaneous q...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Alexander Mook, Jelena Klinovaja, Daniel Loss
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2020-09-01
Series:Physical Review Research
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.033491