A ferromagnetic spin chain favors aligned neighbouring spins. Its conventional long-wavelength magnons have quadratic dispersion.
Easy-plane anisotropy penalizes spin components normal to a preferred plane, leaving a low-energy angular degree of freedom within that plane.
A ferromagnetic magnon is a quantized spin wave. Without a linear restoring term its long-wavelength frequency is proportional to .
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