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Magnon Landau levels and emergent supersymmetry in strained antiferromagnets

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Phys. Rev. Lett., 123 (20): 207204 (Nov 15, 2019)cite arxiv:1903.05097Comment: 5+6 pages, 3+5 figs.
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.207204

Abstract

Inhomogeneous strain applied to lattice systems can induce artificial gauge fields for particles moving on this lattice. Here we demonstrate how to engineer a novel state of matter, namely an antiferromagnet with a Landau-level excitation spectrum of magnons. We consider a honeycomb-lattice Heisenberg model and show that triaxial strain leads to equally spaced pseudo-Landau levels at the upper end of the magnon spectrum, with degeneracies characteristic of emergent supersymmetry. We also present a particular strain protocol which induces perfectly quantized magnon Landau levels over the whole bandwidth. We discuss experimental realizations and generalizations.

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