Magnon-magnon interaction in monolayer MnBi$_2$Te$_4$

Abstract

MnBi$_2$Te$_4$, the first confirmed intrinsic antiferromagnetic topological insulator, have attracted more and more attention in recent years. Here we investigate the energy correction and lifetime of magnons in MnBi$_2$Te$_4$ caused by magnon-magnon interaction. Firstly, a first-principles calculation was performed to get the parameters of the magnetic Hamiltonian of MnBi$_2$Te$_4$. Then the perturbation method of many-body Green's function is applied and the 1st-order self-energy [$\Sigma^{(1)}({\bf k})$] and 2nd-order self-energy [$\Sigma^{(2)}({\bf k},\varepsilon_{\bf k})$] of magnon are obtained. Numerical computation shows that the correction from both $\Sigma^{(1)}({\bf k})$ and $\Sigma^{(2)}({\bf k},\varepsilon_{\bf k})$ are strongly dependent on momentum and temperature, the energy renormalization near Brillouin zone (BZ) boundary is obviously stronger than that near BZ centre. We also find that some dip structures occur in renormalized magnon spectrum near $\rm K$ and $\rm M$ points, and these dip structures should be attributed to $\Sigma^{(2)}({\bf k},\varepsilon_{\bf k})$.Comment: 7 pages, 7 figure