Schwinger boson perturbation theory for spin-S Kitaev-Heisenberg magnets: phase diagram and dynamical response near Kitaev spin liquids
Abstract
We develop a Schwinger boson perturbative framework for the spin-S Kitaev-Heisenberg model. The spin-liquid saddle point of the pure Kitaev model is used as the unperturbed state, and magnetic instabilities and dynamical spin correlations are evaluated around this saddle point. We decompose the Hamiltonian exactly into two parts by exploiting the Klein duality intrinsic to the Kitaev-Heisenberg model. We perform the random-phase approximation by taking the part invariant under the duality transformation as the unperturbed term and treating the remaining term, which changes sign under it, as the perturbation. We determine the phase boundaries separating the quantum spin-liquid regimes from the adjacent magnetically ordered phases for S=1/2, $1$, 3/2, and $2$. The spin-liquid regions shrink rapidly with increasing S and become very narrow at S=2. We also compute the spin dynamics of the spin-S Kitaev-Heisenberg model, focusing on S=1, and find that the dressed dynamical spin structure factor retains a broad two-spinon continuum at finite energies, while the low-energy spectral weight softens at the ordering wave vectors of the adjacent magnetic phases. Our framework thus enables thermodynamic-limit calculations of spin dynamics near magnetic instabilities.
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BibTeX
@misc{sasamoto2026schwinger,
title = {{Schwinger boson perturbation theory for spin-$S$ Kitaev-Heisenberg magnets: phase diagram and dynamical response near Kitaev spin liquids}},
author = {Daiki Sasamoto and Joji Nasu},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.08548},
eprint = {2609.08548},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.08548},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Schwinger boson perturbation theory for spin-S Kitaev-Heisenberg magnets: phase diagram and dynamical response near Kitaev spin liquids
AU - Daiki Sasamoto
AU - Joji Nasu
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/08
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.08548
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.08548
AB - We develop a Schwinger boson perturbative framework for the spin-S Kitaev-Heisenberg model. The spin-liquid saddle point of the pure Kitaev model is used as the unperturbed state, and magnetic instabilities and dynamical spin correlations are evaluated around this saddle point. We decompose the Hamiltonian exactly into two parts by exploiting the Klein duality intrinsic to the Kitaev-Heisenberg model. We perform the random-phase approximation by taking the part invariant under the duality transformation as the unperturbed term and treating the remaining term, which changes sign under it, as the perturbation. We determine the phase boundaries separating the quantum spin-liquid regimes from the adjacent magnetically ordered phases for S=1/2, $1$, 3/2, and $2$. The spin-liquid regions shrink rapidly with increasing S and become very narrow at S=2. We also compute the spin dynamics of the spin-S Kitaev-Heisenberg model, focusing on S=1, and find that the dressed dynamical spin structure factor retains a broad two-spinon continuum at finite energies, while the low-energy spectral weight softens at the ordering wave vectors of the adjacent magnetic phases. Our framework thus enables thermodynamic-limit calculations of spin dynamics near magnetic instabilities.
ER -