Effects of spin vacancies on magnetic properties of the Kitaev-Heisenberg model

Details Effects of spin vacancies on magnetic properties of the Kitaev-Heisenberg model Effects of spin vacancies on magnetic properties of the Kitaev-Heisenberg model

2011-04-25

arxiv.org/abs/1104.4707v3

Phys. Rev. B 84, 054409 (2011)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

13 pages, 10 figures

Scientific paper

We study the ground state properties of the Kitaev-Heisenberg model in a magnetic field and explore the evolution of spin correlations in the presence of non-magnetic vacancies. By means of exact diagonalizations, the phase diagram without vacancies is determined as a function of the magnetic field and the ratio between Kitaev and Heisenberg interactions. We show that in the (antiferromagnetic) stripe ordered phase the static susceptibility and its anisotropy can be described by a spin canting mechanism. This accounts as well for the transition to the polarized phase when including quantum fluctuations perturbatively. Effects of spin vacancies depend sensitively on the type of the ground state. In the liquid phase, the magnetization pattern around a single vacancy in a small field is determined, and its spatial anisotropy is related to that of non-zero further neighbor correlations induced by the field and/or Heisenberg interactions. In the stripe phase, the joint effect of a vacancy and a small field breaks the six-fold symmetry of the model and stabilizes a particular stripe pattern. Similar symmetry-breaking effects occur even at zero field due to effective interactions between vacancies. This selection mechanism and intrinsic randomness of vacancy positions may lead to spin-glass behavior.

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