TY - JOUR
T1 - Spin-12 heisenberg antiferromagnet on an anisotropic kagome lattice
AU - Li, P. H.Y.
AU - Bishop, R. F.
AU - Campbell, C. E.
AU - Farnell, D. J.J.
AU - Götze, O.
AU - Richter, J.
PY - 2012/12/4
Y1 - 2012/12/4
N2 - We use the coupled-cluster method to study the zero-temperature properties of an extended two-dimensional Heisenberg antiferromagnet formed from spin-12 moments on an infinite spatially anisotropic kagome lattice of corner-sharing isosceles triangles, with nearest-neighbor bonds only. The bonds have exchange constants J1>0 along two of the three lattice directions and J2≡κJ1>0 along the third. In the classical limit, the ground-state (GS) phase for κ<12 has collinear ferrimagnetic (Néel′) order where the J2-coupled chain spins are ferromagnetically ordered in one direction with the remaining spins aligned in the opposite direction, while for κ>12 there exists an infinite GS family of canted ferrimagnetic spin states, which are energetically degenerate. For the spin-12 case, we find that quantum analogs of both these classical states continue to exist as stable GS phases in some regions of the anisotropy parameter κ, namely, for 0<κ<κc1 for the Néel′ state and for (at least part of) the region κ>κc2 for the canted phase. However, they are now separated by a paramagnetic phase without either sort of magnetic order in the region κc1<κ<κc2, which includes the isotropic kagome point κ=1 where the stable GS phase is now believed to be a topological (Z2) spin liquid. Our best numerical estimates are κc1=0.515±0.015 and κc2= 1.82±0.03.
AB - We use the coupled-cluster method to study the zero-temperature properties of an extended two-dimensional Heisenberg antiferromagnet formed from spin-12 moments on an infinite spatially anisotropic kagome lattice of corner-sharing isosceles triangles, with nearest-neighbor bonds only. The bonds have exchange constants J1>0 along two of the three lattice directions and J2≡κJ1>0 along the third. In the classical limit, the ground-state (GS) phase for κ<12 has collinear ferrimagnetic (Néel′) order where the J2-coupled chain spins are ferromagnetically ordered in one direction with the remaining spins aligned in the opposite direction, while for κ>12 there exists an infinite GS family of canted ferrimagnetic spin states, which are energetically degenerate. For the spin-12 case, we find that quantum analogs of both these classical states continue to exist as stable GS phases in some regions of the anisotropy parameter κ, namely, for 0<κ<κc1 for the Néel′ state and for (at least part of) the region κ>κc2 for the canted phase. However, they are now separated by a paramagnetic phase without either sort of magnetic order in the region κc1<κ<κc2, which includes the isotropic kagome point κ=1 where the stable GS phase is now believed to be a topological (Z2) spin liquid. Our best numerical estimates are κc1=0.515±0.015 and κc2= 1.82±0.03.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevB.86.214403
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevB.86.214403
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84871079491
SN - 1098-0121
VL - 86
JO - Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
JF - Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
IS - 21
M1 - 214403
ER -