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阻挫 XY 模型中易面 Dirac 自旋液体的自旋动力学:在蜂窝状钴酸盐中的应用

Spin dynamics of an easy-plane Dirac spin liquid in a frustrated XY model: Application to honeycomb cobaltates

Anjishnu Bose, Arun Paramekanti

AI总结:

本文结合 VMC、parton-RPA 与动态响应计算,提出蜂窝 J1-J3 XY 模型中的易面 DSL 可作为钴酸盐多种竞争磁序的母态,并解释磁场极化及光谱、中子散射特征。

摘要:

近期研究表明,蜂窝晶格自旋-1/2 的 J1-J3 XY 模型(具有最近邻铁磁交换 J1,并由第三近邻反铁磁交换 J3 引发阻挫)可能与多种钴酸盐材料相关。我们对该模型的 Gutzwiller 投影波函数开展变分 Monte Carlo(VMC)研究,证明易面 Dirac 自旋液体(DSL)是这些材料中观测到的竞争磁序的可行“母”态;这些磁序包括中等阻挫下的铁磁序、锯齿序、螺旋序和双锯齿序,并证明这类对称性破缺态可被弱的面内磁场轻易极化,这与实验一致。我们为此类阻挫自旋模型构建了一种改进的 parton 理论,并在零磁场和非零面内磁场下,利用随机相位近似(RPA)考察由残余 parton 相互作用导致的 DSL 潜在不稳定性。在该 Dirac 自旋液体附近出现的对称性破缺态包括铁磁序、锯齿序和非公度螺旋序,其相图与 VMC 及密度矩阵重整化群研究一致。我们在有序态边界附近计算了包含 RPA 修正的易面 DSL 动态自旋响应,给出零场及面内磁场下的太赫兹光谱和非弹性中子散射结果,并讨论了其实验意义。

英文摘要:

Recent work has shown that the honeycomb lattice spin-$1/2$ $J_1$-$J_3$ XY model, with nearest-neighbor ferromagnetic exchange $J_1$ and frustration induced by third-neighbor antiferromagnetic exchange $J_3$, may be relevant to a wide range of cobaltate materials. We explore a variational Monte Carlo study of Gutzwiller projected wavefunctions for this model and show that an easy-plane Dirac spin liquid (DSL) is a viable `parent' state for the competing magnetic orders observed in these materials, including ferromagnetic, zig-zag, spiral, and double zig-zag orders at intermediate frustration, and show that such broken symmetry states can be easily polarized by a weak in-plane magnetic field consistent with experiments. We formulate a modified parton theory for such frustrated spin models, and explore the potential instabilities of the DSL due to residual parton interactions within a random phase approximation (RPA), both at zero magnetic field and in a nonzero in-plane field. The broken symmetry states which emerge in the vicinity of this Dirac spin liquid include ferromagnetic, zig-zag, and incommensurate spiral orders, with a phase diagram which is consistent with VMC and density matrix renormalization group studies. We calculate the dynamical spin response of the easy-plane DSL, including RPA corrections, near the boundary of the ordered states, and present results for THz spectroscopy and inelastic neutron scattering, at zero field as well as in an in-plane magnetic field, and discuss experimental implications.

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