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View SchemaGeometric Spin Rotation in Triangular Antiferromagnets
| Authors | Grigor Adamyan, Bastian Pradenas, Boris Ivanov, Oleg Tchernyshyov |
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| ArXiv ID | 2601.07914vv1 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.07914 |
| License | http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/ |
Abstract
We describe a geometric phenomenon in which a traveling wave made of degenerate Goldstone modes leaves behind a transformed ground state. In a triangular Heisenberg antiferromagnet, a pulse of circularly polarized spin waves rotates the spins within their plane. An exact solution of the nonlinear equations of motion demonstrates that the accumulated rotation is a geometric phase related to parallel transport of the order parameter. We point out a curious analogy between the motion of the magnetic order parameter and that of a wobbling coin. This phenomenon opens a new route for controlling antiferromagnetic order by spin waves and may extend to other frustrated magnets as well as other physical systems with noncommuting broken-symmetry generators.
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