Effective Hamiltonians for large-S pyrochlore antiferromagnet

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2006-11-17

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0611481v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

14pp, 1 figure (Proc. Highly Frust. Mag. 2006, to appear JPCM)

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The pyrochlore lattice Heisenberg antiferromagnet has a massive classical ground state degeneracy. We summarize three approximation schemes, valid for large spin length $S$, to capture the (partial) lifting of this degeneracy when zero-point quantum fluctuations are taken into account; all three are related to analytic loop expansions. The first is harmonic order spin waves; at this order, there remains an infinite manifold of degenerate collinear ground states, related by a gauge-like symmetry. The second is anharmonic (quartic order) spin waves, using a self-consistent approximation; the harmonic-order degeneracy is split, but (within numerical precision) some degeneracy may remain, with entropy still of order $L$ in a system of $L^3$ sites. The third is a large-N approximation, a standard and convenient approach for frustrated antiferromagnets; however, the large-N result contradicts the harmonic order at $O(S)$ hence must be wrong (for large $S$).

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