Published June 3, 2024 | Version v1
Journal article

Collective spin oscillations in a magnetized graphene sheet

  • 1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, USA
  • 2. Department of Physics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, USA

Description

We investigate collective spin excitations of graphene electrons with short-ranged interactions and subject to the external Zeeman magnetic field. We find that in addition to the familiar Silin spin wave, a collective spin-flip excitation that reduces to the uniform precession when the wave's momentum approaches zero, the magnetized graphene supports another collective mode visible in the transverse spin susceptibility: a collective spin-current mode. Unlike the Silin wave, this mode is not dictated by the spin-rotational symmetry but rather owns its existence to the pseudospin structure of the graphene lattice. We find the collective excitation to become sharply defined in a finite interval of the wave's momenta, the range of which is determined by the interaction and the magnetization.

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1103/PhysRevB.109.224302;
arXiv
arXiv:2312.16782;
Crossref Funder ID
10.13039/100000001;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review B
Journal Volume
109
Journal Issue
22
Journal Page Range
14 pgs.
ISSN
1550-235X

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Copyright
©2024 American Physical Society
Contract/Grant/Project number
DMR-1928919; DMR-2138008
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Funding organization
National Science Foundation