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呼吸的Kagome Heisenberg反铁磁体中无带隙自旋液体的持续性

Persistence of the gapless spin liquid in the breathing kagome Heisenberg antiferromagnet

Yasir Iqbal, Didier Poilblanc, Ronny Thomale, Federico Becca

摘要:

具有呼吸各向异性的kagome晶格上的自旋$S=1/2$海森堡反铁磁体的基态的性质(即,不同的超交换耦合$J_{\vartriangle}$和$J_{\triangledown}$内的基本向上和向下指向的三角形)的Gutzwiller投影费米波函数和Monte Carlo方法的框架内进行了研究。我们分析了U(1)狄拉克自旋液体相对于费米配对的存在,导致一个带隙的$\mathbb{Z}_{2}$自旋液体的稳定性。对于几个值的比率$J_{\triangledown}/J_{\vartriangle}$,由于配对字段和变分参数的能量增益的大小缩放的报告。我们的结果表明,相对于无隙态的带隙自旋液体的能量增益要么消失足够大的系统尺寸或标度为零的热力学极限。类似地,优化的配对振幅(负责打开自旋间隙)示出消失的热力学极限。我们的结果得到证实的应用程序的一个和两个Lanczos步骤的无隙和带隙的波函数,其中没有能量增益的带隙状态时,检测到的质量的变分状态。最后,我们讨论了在强各向异性区域中与“单纯”$\mathbb{Z}_{2}$共振价键自旋液体、价键晶体和双价态的竞争,即,$J_{\triangledown} \ll J_{\vartriangle}$。

英文摘要:

The nature of the ground state of the spin $S=1/2$ Heisenberg antiferromagnet on the kagome lattice with breathing anisotropy (i.e., with different superexchange couplings $J_{\vartriangle}$ and $J_{\triangledown}$ within elementary up- and down-pointing triangles) is investigated within the framework of Gutzwiller projected fermionic wave functions and Monte Carlo methods. We analyze the stability of the U(1) Dirac spin liquid with respect to the presence of fermionic pairing that leads to a gapped $\mathbb{Z}_{2}$ spin liquid. For several values of the ratio $J_{\triangledown}/J_{\vartriangle}$, the size scaling of the energy gain due to the pairing fields and the variational parameters are reported. Our results show that the energy gain of the gapped spin liquid with respect to the gapless state either vanishes for large enough system size or scales to zero in the thermodynamic limit. Similarly, the optimized pairing amplitudes (responsible for opening the spin gap) are shown to vanish in the thermodynamic limit. Our outcome is corroborated by the application of one and two Lanczos steps to the gapless and gapped wave functions, for which no energy gain of the gapped state is detected when improving the quality of the variational states. Finally, we discuss the competition with the "simplex" $\mathbb{Z}_{2}$ resonating-valence-bond spin liquid, valence-bond crystal, and nematic states in the strongly anisotropic regime, i.e., $J_{\triangledown} \ll J_{\vartriangle}$.

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