Controlling stability of Bose-Einstein condensation of interacting magnons in an antiferromagnet by an external magnetic field

Abstract

We propose a mechanism for destabilizing or stabilizing Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) of interacting magnons in an antiferromagnet. We study how the interaction between magnons affects the magnon BEC in a two-sublattice antiferromagnet without and with an external magnetic field. We show that in the absence of the magnetic field the magnon BEC is destabilized by the attractive interband interaction, which is larger than the repulsive intraband interaction. We also show that in the presence of the magnetic field the magnon BEC is stabilized only if the magnetic field is large enough to make the intraband interaction larger than the interband interaction. Our results provide the first step for understanding the interaction effects on the magnon BEC in antiferromagnets and may open interaction physics of multicomponent BEC of magnons in magnets.