Superconfined Antiferromagnons on the Two-Dimensional Penrose Lattice

We find novel confined states in the spin-S nearest-neighbor antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model on the two-dimensional Penrose lattice. Linear spin waves have massively degenerate eigenstates strictly confined to tricoordinated sites. They contrast with the well-known itinerant analogs in the tight-binding model, where electrons are confined but extended to both tricoordinated and pentacoordinated sites. It is the site potentials in the spin-wave Hamiltonian, originating from Coulomb interactions between electrons, that confine spin waves to minimally coordinated sites only. Confined states in the tight-binding Hamiltonian consist of six types of building blocks, whereas those in the spin-wave Hamiltonian consist of only four of them. Confined spin waves are robust against 1/S corrections. Emergent O (S^0) interactions further confine superconfine spin waves into two separate groups within tricoordinated sites.