Physics – Condensed Matter – Strongly Correlated Electrons
Scientific paper
2010-10-25
Eur. Phys. J. B, Vol. 81 (2011), p.37-48
Physics
Condensed Matter
Strongly Correlated Electrons
12
Scientific paper
10.1140/epjb/e2011-10817-7
The zero-temperature phase diagrams of a two-dimensional frustrated quantum antiferromagnetic system, namely the Union Jack model, are studied using the coupled cluster method (CCM) for the two cases when the lattice spins have spin quantum number $s=1$ and $s=3/2$. The system is defined on a square lattice and the spins interact via isotropic Heisenberg interactions such that all nearest-neighbour (NN) exchange bonds are present with identical strength $J_{1}>0$, and only half of the next-nearest-neighbour (NNN) exchange bonds are present with identical strength $J_{2} \equiv \kappa J_{1} > 0$. The bonds are arranged such that on the $2 \times 2$ unit cell they form the pattern of the Union Jack flag. Clearly, the NN bonds by themselves (viz., with $J_{2}=0$) produce an antiferromagnetic N\'{e}el-ordered phase, but as the relative strength $\kappa$ of the frustrating NNN bonds is increased a phase transition occurs in the classical case ($s \rightarrow \infty$) at $\kappa^{\rm cl}_{c}=0.5$ to a canted ferrimagnetic phase. In the quantum cases considered here we also find strong evidence for a corresponding phase transition between a N\'{e}el-ordered phase and a quantum canted ferrimagnetic phase at a critical coupling $\kappa_{c_{1}}=0.580 \pm 0.015$ for $s=1$ and $\kappa_{c_{1}}=0.545 \pm 0.015$ for $s=3/2$. In both cases the ground-state energy $E$ and its first derivative $dE/d\kappa$ seem continuous, thus providing a typical scenario of a second-order phase transition at $\kappa=\kappa_{c_{1}}$, although the order parameter for the transition (viz., the average ground-state on-site magnetization) does not go to zero there on either side of the transition.
Bishop Raymond F.
Li P. H. Y.
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