# Bose–Einstein condensation of triplons with a weakly broken U(1) symmetry

Khudoyberdiev, Asliddin; Rakhimov, Abdulla; Schilling, Andreas (2017). Bose–Einstein condensation of triplons with a weakly broken U(1) symmetry. New Journal of Physics, 19(11):113002.

## Abstract

The low-temperature properties of certain quantum magnets can be described in terms of a Bose–Einstein condensation (BEC) of magnetic quasiparticles (triplons). Some mean-field approaches (MFA) to describe these systems, based on the standard grand canonical ensemble, do not take the anomalous density into account and leads to an internal inconsistency, as it has been shown by Hohenberg and Martin, and may therefore produce unphysical results. Moreover, an explicit breaking of the U(1) symmetry as observed, for example, in TlCuCl3 makes the application of MFA more complicated. In the present work, we develop a self-consistent MFA approach, similar to the Hartree–Fock–Bogolyubov approximation in the notion of representative statistical ensembles, including the effect of a weakly broken U(1) symmetry. We apply our results on experimental data of the quantum magnet TlCuCl3 and show that magnetization curves and the energy dispersion can be well described within this approximation assuming that the BEC scenario is still valid. We predict that the shift of the critical temperature T c due to a finite exchange anisotropy is rather substantial even when the anisotropy parameter γ is small, e.g., ${\rm{\Delta }}{T}_{{c}}\approx 10 \%$ of T c in H = 6 T and for $\gamma \approx 4$ $\mu \mathrm{eV}$.

## Abstract

The low-temperature properties of certain quantum magnets can be described in terms of a Bose–Einstein condensation (BEC) of magnetic quasiparticles (triplons). Some mean-field approaches (MFA) to describe these systems, based on the standard grand canonical ensemble, do not take the anomalous density into account and leads to an internal inconsistency, as it has been shown by Hohenberg and Martin, and may therefore produce unphysical results. Moreover, an explicit breaking of the U(1) symmetry as observed, for example, in TlCuCl3 makes the application of MFA more complicated. In the present work, we develop a self-consistent MFA approach, similar to the Hartree–Fock–Bogolyubov approximation in the notion of representative statistical ensembles, including the effect of a weakly broken U(1) symmetry. We apply our results on experimental data of the quantum magnet TlCuCl3 and show that magnetization curves and the energy dispersion can be well described within this approximation assuming that the BEC scenario is still valid. We predict that the shift of the critical temperature T c due to a finite exchange anisotropy is rather substantial even when the anisotropy parameter γ is small, e.g., ${\rm{\Delta }}{T}_{{c}}\approx 10 \%$ of T c in H = 6 T and for $\gamma \approx 4$ $\mu \mathrm{eV}$.

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Item Type: Journal Article, refereed, original work 07 Faculty of Science > Physics Institute 530 Physics English November 2017 09 Feb 2018 13:37 20 Feb 2018 15:33 IOP Publishing 1367-2630 Gold Publisher DOI. An embargo period may apply. https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/aa8a2f

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