Effect of Biquadratic Exchange Upon Ferromagnetic Two-Magnon Bound States. II. Anisotropic Exchange

Abstract

We have investigated the two-magnon bound state spectrum of a ferromagnetically ordered system for which the Hamiltonian contains an anisotropic bilinear exchange term, an anisotropic biquadratic exchange term, and a single-ion anisotropy term. The bound states, labelled by a wave vector q which we have taken to be in the [111] direction, were calculated by using zero-temperature Green functions. The principal results are: (i) the existence of single-ion bound states in the absence of single-ion anisotropy and conversely, their absence in the presence of such anisotropy, in contrast to the case in which the exchange interactions are isotropic; (ii) the appearance of an S mode for values of q, [Formula: see text]; (iii) the ordering of bound states for isotropic exchange interactions wherein the S0 mode lies below the S1-mode, D-mode pair and where the S1 mode lies below (above) the D mode if they lie below (above) the band, no longer holds.