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量子临界自旋轨道系统FeSc $_2$ S $_4$的激发谱和磁场效应

Excitation spectrum and magnetic field effects in a quantum critical spin-orbital system:FeSc$_2$S$_4$

Gang Chen, Andreas P. Schnyder, Leon Balents

摘要:

轨道简并的A位尖晶石化合物FeSc2S4已被实验确定为“自旋轨道液体”,具有强烈的自旋和轨道波动。假设第二近邻自旋交换J2是主要的,我们在最近的理论研究中论证了[Chen等人,物理修订版信函102,096406(2009)],FeSc2S4处于由自旋轨道耦合驱动的局部"自旋轨道单线态“,接近量子临界点,其将"自旋轨道单线态”相与磁性和轨道有序相分离。在本文中,我们进一步完善和发展这一理论的FeSc2S4。首先,我们表明,包含一个小的第一邻居交换J1诱导量子临界点附近的一个狭窄的区域的无公度相位。接下来,我们推导出在外部磁场B的存在下的相图,并表明,后者抑制了有序相。最后,我们计算了磁场相关的动态磁化率$χ(k, ω; B)$,从中我们提取了各种物理量。对实验结果进行了比较,并提出了建议.

英文摘要:

The orbitally degenerate A-site spinel compound FeSc2S4 has been experimentally identified as a ``spin-orbital liquid'', with strong fluctuations of both spins and orbitals. Assuming that the second neighbor spin exchange J2 is the dominant one, we argued in a recent theoretical study [Chen et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 096406 (2009)] that FeSc2S4 is in a local ``spin-orbital singlet'' state driven by spin orbit coupling, close to a quantum critical point, which separates the ``spin-orbital singlet'' phase from a magnetically and orbitally ordered phase. In this paper, we refine further and develop this theory of FeSc2S4 . First, we show that inclusion of a small first neighbor exchange J1 induces a narrow region of incommensurate phase near the quantum critical point. Next, we derive the phase diagram in the presence of an external magnetic field B, and show that the latter suppresses the ordered phase. Lastly, we compute the field dependent dynamical magnetic susceptibility $χ(k, ω; B)$, from which we extract a variety of physical quantities. Comparison with and suggestions for experiment are discussed.

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