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Kagome晶格上具有各向异性交换的Heisenberg反铁磁体:伏硼硫铁矿磁性的描述

Heisenberg antiferromagnet with anisotropic exchange on the Kagome lattice: Description of the magnetic properties of volborthite

T. Yavors'kii, W. Apel, H. -U. Everts

摘要:

本文研究了Kagome网上具有空间各向异性最近邻交换耦合的Heisenberg反铁磁体的性质,即耦合J在一个晶格方向上,耦合J'在另外两个方向上.当J/J' > 1时,该模型可以用来描述矿物氟硼硫石的磁性.在经典极限下,它呈现出两种基态:当J/J' < 1/2时的亚铁磁态和当J/J' > 1/2时的大量倾斜自旋态。为了包含量子效应的自洽性,我们研究了在大N极限下原始SU(2)对称模型的Sp(N)对称推广。除了对各向异性的依赖之外,Sp(N)对称模型还依赖于测量量子效应重要性的参数kappa。我们的数值计算表明,在kappa-J/J'平面上,该系统显示出一个丰富的相图,包含亚铁磁相、无公度相和解耦的链状相,后两者具有短程有序和长程序.我们证实了这些结果表明,各阶段之间的边界和其他几个功能的Sp(N)相图可以通过分析计算确定。最后,将块自旋微扰展开应用于自旋为1/2的三聚体模型,我们认为在强各向异性的极限J/J' >> 1时,原模型的基态是共线有序的反铁磁体,它通过量子相变与无公度态分离。

英文摘要:

We study the properties of the Heisenberg antiferromagnet with spatially anisotropic nearest-neighbour exchange couplings on the kagome net, i.e. with coupling J in one lattice direction and couplings J' along the other two directions. For J/J' > 1, this model is believed to describe the magnetic properties of the mineral volborthite. In the classical limit, it exhibits two kinds of ground states: a ferrimagnetic state for J/J' < 1/2 and a large manifold of canted spin states for J/J' > 1/2. To include quantum effects self-consistently, we investigate the Sp(N) symmetric generalisation of the original SU(2) symmetric model in the large-N limit. In addition to the dependence on the anisotropy, the Sp(N) symmetric model depends on a parameter kappa that measures the importance of quantum effects. Our numerical calculations reveal that in the kappa-J/J' plane, the system shows a rich phase diagram containing a ferrimagnetic phase, an incommensurate phase, and a decoupled chain phase, the latter two with short- and long-range order. We corroborate these results by showing that the boundaries between the various phases and several other features of the Sp(N) phase diagram can be determined by analytical calculations. Finally, the application of a block-spin perturbation expansion to the trimerised version of the original spin-1/2 model leads us to suggest that in the limit of strong anisotropy, J/J' >> 1, the ground state of the original model is a collinearly ordered antiferromagnet, which is separated from the incommensurate state by a quantum phase transition.

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