Kramers degeneracy in a magnetic field and Zeeman spin-orbit coupling in antiferromagnetic conductors

Revaz Ramazashvili 1, 2

Physical Review Letters 101 (2008) 137202

In this article, I study magnetic response of electron wavefunctions in a commensurate collinear antiferromagnet. I show that, at a special set of momenta, hidden anti-unitary symmetry protects Kramers degeneracy of Bloch eigenstates against a magnetic field, pointing transversely to staggered magnetization. Hence a substantial momentum dependence of the transverse g-factor in the Zeeman term, turning the latter into a spin-orbit coupling, that may be present in materials from chromium to borocarbides, cuprates, pnictides, as well as organic and heavy fermion conductors.

  • 1. Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Modèles Statistiques (LPTMS),
    CNRS : UMR8626 – Université Paris XI – Paris Sud
  • 2. Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris (ENS),
    Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris – ENS Paris
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