Impurity Effects in Highly Frustrated Diamond Lattice Antiferromagnets

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2011-03-25

arxiv.org/abs/1103.4985v1

Phys. Rev. B 84, 064438 (2011)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

13 pages, 7 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.84.064438

We consider the effects of local impurities in highly frustrated diamond lattice antiferromagnets, which exhibit large but non-extensive ground state degeneracies. Such models are appropriate to many A-site magnetic spinels. We argue very generally that sufficiently dilute impurities induce an ordered magnetic ground state, and provide a mechanism of degeneracy breaking. The states which are selected can be determined by a "swiss cheese model" analysis, which we demonstrate numerically for a particular impurity model in this case. Moreover, we present criteria for estimating the stability of the resulting ordered phase to a competing frozen (spin glass) one. The results may explain the contrasting finding of frozen and ordered ground states in CoAl2O4 and MnSc2S4, respectively.

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