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各向异性Kagome晶格上的团簇莫特绝缘体和两种Curie-Weiss区

Cluster Mott insulators and two Curie-Weiss regimes on an anisotropic Kagome lattice

Gang Chen, Hae-Young Kee, Yong Baek Kim

摘要:

受量子自旋液体候选材料LiZn 2 Mo 3 O 8最近实验的启发,我们研究了各向异性Kagome晶格上1/6电子填充的单带扩展哈伯德模型.由于晶格的部分填充,需要产生莫特绝缘体,其中电子被定位在簇中,而不是在晶格位置处的位置间排斥相互作用。结果表明,这些团簇莫特绝缘体一般是具有自旋费米面的U(1)量子自旋液体.团簇莫特绝缘体中的电荷激发的性质与传统的莫特绝缘体有很大的不同,我们发现存在一种新颖的团簇莫特绝缘体,其中六角团簇周围的电荷波动诱导了元胞电荷序(PCO)。由于PCO的存在,自旋液体团簇莫特绝缘体中的自旋子激发谱被重构,只有1/3的自旋子激发是磁激活的。基于这些结果,我们提出LiZn_2 Mo_3 O_8中自旋磁化率的两个Curie-Weiss区域可以用具有PCO的团簇莫特绝缘体的有限温度性质以及自旋子的分数激发来解释。现有的和可能的未来实验LiZn 2 Mo 3 O 8,和其他钼基团簇磁体进行了讨论,根据这些理论预测。

英文摘要:

Motivated by recent experiments on the quantum-spin-liquid candidate material LiZn2Mo3O8, we study a single-band extended Hubbard model on an anisotropic Kagome lattice with the 1/6 electron filling. Due to the partial filling of the lattice, the inter-site repulsive interaction is necessary to generate Mott insulators, where electrons are localized in clusters, rather than at lattice sites. It is shown that these cluster Mott insulators are generally U(1) quantum spin liquids with spinon Fermi surfaces. The nature of charge excitations in cluster Mott insulators can be quite different from conventional Mott insulator and we show that there exists a novel cluster Mott insulator where charge fluctuations around the hexagonal cluster induce a plaquette charge order (PCO). The spinon excitation spectrum in this spin-liquid cluster Mott insulator is reconstructed due to the PCO so that only 1/3 of the total spinon excitations are magnetically active. Based on these results, we propose that the two Curie-Weiss regimes of the spin susceptibility in LiZn2Mo3O8 may be explained by finite-temperature properties of the cluster Mott insulator with the PCO as well as fractionalized spinon excitations. Existing and possible future experiments on LiZn2Mo3O8, and other Mo-based cluster magnets are discussed in light of these theoretical predictions.

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