Uniaxially anisotropic antiferromagnets in a field along the easy axis
W. Selke, M. Holtschneider, R. Leidl, S. Wessel, G. Bannasch
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15 pages, 11 figures, to appear in Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed Matter Physics XXI, Eds. D. P. Landau, S.P. Lewis, and H. B. Schuttler (Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, Berlin, 2008)
Uniaxially anisotropic antiferromagnets in a field along the easy axis are studied with the help of ground state considerations and Monte Carlo simulations. For classical models, the XXZ model as well as variants, we analyze the role of non-collinear spin configurations of biconical or bidirectional type interpolating between the well-known antiferromagnetic and spin-flop structures. Possible experimental applications to layered cuprate antiferromagnets are discussed. Finally, results of quantum Monte Carlo simulations for the S=1/2 XXZ model on a square lattice are presented, and compared with previous findings.
We study a frustrated antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model on a triangular lattice with the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) in the presence of an external magnetic field and a single-ion anisotropy. Phase diagrams in the temperature-field plane for both easy-axis and easy-plane anisotropy of a varying strength are constructed in the regimes of a moderate and strong DMI by parallel tempering Monte Carlo simulations. For the considered range of parameters the phase diagrams featuring up to four ordered phases are identified. A skyrmion lattice (SkX) phase is found to be stabilized within s…
When the constituent spins have an energetic preference to lie along an easy-axis, triangular and Kagome lattice antiferromagnets often develop long-range order that distinguishes the three sublattices of the underlying triangular Bravais lattice. In zero magnetic field, this three-sublattice order melts {\em either} in a two-step manner, {\em i.e.} via an intermediate phase with power-law three-sublattice order controlled by a temperature dependent exponent $η(T) \in (\frac{1}{9},\frac{1}{4})$, {\em or} via a transition in the three-state Potts universality class. Here, I predict that the uni…
Prototypical models and their material incarnations are cornerstones to the understanding of quantum magnetism. Here we show theoretically that the recently synthesized magnetic compound Na$_2$BaCo(PO$_4$)$_2$ (NBCP) is a rare, nearly ideal material realization of the $S=1/2$ triangular-lattice antiferromagnet with significant easy-axis spin exchange anisotropy. By combining the automatic parameter searching and tensor-network simulations, we establish a microscopic model description of this material with realistic model parameters, which can not only fit well the experimental thermodynamic da…
We present a dynamical mean-field study of antiferromagnetic magnons in one-, two- and three-orbital Hubbard model of square and bcc cubic lattice at intermediate coupling strength. Weinvestigate the effect of anisotropy introduced by an external magnetic field or single-ion anisotropy.For the latter we tune continuously between the easy-axis and easy-plane models. We also analyzea model with spin-orbit coupling in cubic site-symmetry setting. The ordered states as well as themagnetic excitations are sensitive to even a small breaking ofSU(2)symmetry of the model andfollow the expectations of …
The stability of a miniature skyrmion crystal (SkX) with only a small number of spins in the magnetic unit cell has been theoretically investigated in $J_1$-$J_3$ antiferromagnets on the breathing kagome lattice with a single-ion anisotropy $D$ at zero field. It is found by means of Monte Carlo simulations that due to the breathing bond-alternation, a zero-field triple-${\bf Q}$ miniature SkX can be stabilized not only in the specific case of $D=0$ [K. Aoyama and H. Kawamura, Phys. Rev. B 105, L100407 (2022)] but also in more general situations with easy-axis ($D<0$) and easy-plane ($D>0$) ani…
We examine the phase diagram of the spin-$1$ $J_1-J_2-J_3$ ferromagnetic Heisenberg model with an easy-plane crystal field on the cubic lattice, in which $J_1$ is the ferromagnetic exchange interaction between nearest neighbors, $J_2$ is the antiferromagnetic exchange interaction between next-nearest neighbors and $J_3$ is the antiferromagnetic exchange interaction between next-next-nearest neighbors. Using the bond-operator formalism, we investigate the phase transitions between the disordered paramagnetic phase and the ordered ones. We show that the nature of the quantum phase transitions ch…
A transverse magnetic field $Γ$ is known to induce antiferromagnetic three-sublattice order of the Ising spins $σ^z$ in the triangular lattice Ising antiferromagnet at low enough temperature. This low-temperature order is known to melt on heating in a two-step manner, with a power-law ordered intermediate temperature phase characterized by power-law correlations at the three-sublattice wavevector ${\bf Q}$: $\langle σ^z(\vec{R}) σ^z(0)\rangle \sim \cos({\mathbf Q}\cdot \vec{R}) /|\vec{R}|^{η(T)}$ with the temperature-dependent power-law exponent $η(T) \in (1/9,1/4)$. Here, we use a newly devel…
Phase diagrams of a classical two-dimensional Heisenberg antiferromagnet with single-ion anisotropy
二维各向异性Heisenberg模型的经典变形再现了La_5Ca_9Cu_24O_41的非弹性中子散射实验[M. Matsuda等人,Phys.Rev. B 68,060406(R)(2003)]主要使用蒙特卡罗技术进行分析。确定了具有平行和垂直于各向异性相互作用的易磁化轴的外场的相图,包括反铁磁相和自旋翻转相。发现移动的无自旋缺陷或空穴形成条纹,这些条纹在相变时聚束、散束和破裂。平行场可以导致自旋翻转相。