1 6 D ec 1 99 8 Elementary Excitations in Magnetically Ordered Systems with Orbital Degeneracy
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The Holstein-Primakoff transformation is generalized to develop a quantum flavor wave theory for spin systems with orbital degeneracy. Elementary excitations of ordered ground states consist of spin, orbital , and spinorbital waves. Spin and spin-orbital waves couple to each other due to orbital anisotropy and Hund’s rule, resulting in new modes observable by inelastic neutron scattering. In the SU(4) limit, flavor waves are dispersionless along one or more directions, and give rise to quantum fluctuations of reduced dimensionality. PACS number(s): 75.10.-b, 75.10.Jm, 75.30.Ds, 11.30.-j
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