Sep 20 – 25, 2026
University of Graz
Europe/Vienna timezone

Magnon quantum geometry in one-dimensional chiral magnets

Sep 24, 2026, 12:30 PM
15m
HS 10.11 (University of Graz)

HS 10.11

University of Graz

10 - Chemistry, 1st floor
3) Contributed talk M42 - Advances in Magnonics Mini-Colloquium

Speaker

Sidhartha Chatterjee (University of Luxembourg)

Description

We develop a theoretical framework for magnon dynamics in a quasi-one-dimensional Heisenberg spin chain that includes a nearest-neighbour Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) and a magnetic field applied along both the hard and easy axes. Depending on the field’s direction and strength, the system hosts various ground states, including ferromagnetic and conical spiral phases, as well as a chiral soliton lattice. Using the Holstein-Primakoff transformation, we derive a quadratic magnon Hamiltonian. We diagonalize the Hamiltonian via the Bogoliubov transformation and show that the quantum geometric tensor of magnons fundamentally inherits a symplectic structure. This geometric structure yields corrections to the semiclassical equations of motion for magnon wave packets, resulting in a metric-driven longitudinal contribution in one dimension. The nonlinear soliton texture also induces non-trivial flat bands and magnon localization. Overall, the framework provides a systematic route for incorporating geometric effects and symplectic structure into magnon dynamics, where no particle-number-conserving framework exists, offering new insights into the interplay between topology and transport in nonlinear spin textures.

Author

Sidhartha Chatterjee (University of Luxembourg)

Co-authors

Dr Andreas Haller (University of Luxembourg) Prof. Peter P. Orth (Saarland University) Prof. Thomas L. Schmidt (University of Luxembourg)

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