Abstract
We study the impact of next-nearest-neighbor (NNN) hopping on the low-energy collective excitations of strongly correlated doped antiferromagnetic cuprate spin chains. Specifically, we use exact diagonalization and the density matrix renormalization group method to study the single-particle spectral function, the dynamical spin and charge structure factors, and the Cu $L$-edge resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS) intensity of the doped $t\text{\ensuremath{-}}t\ensuremath{'}\text{\ensuremath{-}}J$ model for a set of $t\ensuremath{'}$ values. We find evidence that the spin and charge degrees of freedom of the doped holes are not strictly separated anymore as $|t\ensuremath{'}|$ increases and identify the consequences of this in the dynamical response functions. The inclusion of NNN hopping couples the spinon and holon excitations, resulting in the formation of a spin polaron, where a ferromagnetic spin-polarization cloud dresses the doped carrier. The spin polaron manifests itself as additional spectral weight in the dynamical correlation functions, which appear simultaneously in the spin- and charge-sensitive channels. We also demonstrate that RIXS can provide a unique view of the spin polaron, due to its sensitivity to both the spin and charge degrees of freedom.
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