Excitation and transport of bound magnon clusters in frustrated ferromagnetic chain

Onishi, Hiroaki  

By exploiting density-matrix renormalization group methods, we study magnetic and transport properties of a frustrated quantum spin chain with ferromagnetic nearest-neighbor and antiferromagnetic next-nearest-neighbor exchange interactions in an applied magnetic field. In high magnetic fields, there appear a series of spin multipole liquid ground states such as quadrupole, octupole, and hexadecapole, which are two-, three-, and four-magnon bound states, respectively. Since the low-energy excitation is governed by multi-magnon bound states, we envisage that bound magnon clusters would carry spin current. We will report detailed analyses of multipole excitation spectra and current correlation functions, and discuss how the magnon clusters contribute to the transport.