Abstract
We demonstrate that long-range interaction in a system can lead to a very strong interaction between long-wavelength quasiparticles and make them heavily damped. In particular, we discuss magnon spectrum using expansion in three-dimensional Heisenberg ferromagnet (FM) with arbitrary small dipolar forces at . We obtain that a fraction of long-wavelength magnons with energies has anomalously large damping ( reaches 0.3 for certain ). This effect is observed both in quantum and classical FMs. Remarkably, this result contradicts expectation of the quasiparticle concept according to which a weakly excited state of a many-body system can be represented as a collection of weakly interacting elementary excitations. Particular materials are pointed out which are suitable for corresponding experiments.
- Received 7 July 2010
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.82.024432
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