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经典烧绿石反铁磁体中的从无序到部分有序

Partial order from disorder in a classical pyrochlore antiferromagnet

Gia-Wei Chern, R. Moessner, O. Tchernyshyov

摘要:

从理论上研究了焦绿石晶格上经典海森堡反铁磁体在弱第二近邻相互作用J_2扰动下的相图。最近邻海森堡自旋的巨大基态简并度被J_2提升,并且在接近零温度时磁有序的基态开始。我们发现了铁磁J_2在有限温度下具有共线自旋的新的部分有序相。除了一个大的有序序参量,这个中间相还表现出层状结构和键序,打破了亚晶格对称性。热力学相界将其与完全无序态和磁有序态分开,在小J_2的极限下为1.87 J_2 S^2和0.26 J_2 S^2。相变是不连续的。我们分析了共线态的局部稳定性,得到了与蒙特卡罗模拟一致的边界T ~ J_2^2/J_1。

英文摘要:

We investigate theoretically the phase diagram of a classical Heisenberg antiferromagnet on the pyrochlore lattice perturbed by a weak second-neighbor interaction J_2. The huge ground state degeneracy of the nearest-neighbor Heisenberg spins is lifted by J_2 and a magnetically ordered ground state sets in upon approaching zero temperature. We have found a new, partially ordered phase with collinear spins at finite temperatures for a ferromagnetic J_2. In addition to a large nematic order parameter, this intermediate phase also exhibits a layered structure and a bond order that breaks the sublattice symmetry. Thermodynamic phase boundaries separating it from the fully disordered and magnetically ordered states scale as 1.87 J_2 S^2 and 0.26 J_2 S^2 in the limit of small J_2. The phase transitions are discontinuous. We analytically examine the local stability of the collinear state and obtain a boundary T ~ J_2^2/J_1 in agreement with Monte Carlo simulations.

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