Thermodynamics of the Antiferromagnetic Heisenberg Model on the Checkerboard Lattice

Details Thermodynamics of the Antiferromagnetic Heisenberg Model on the Checkerboard Lattice Thermodynamics of the Antiferromagnetic Heisenberg Model on the Checkerboard Lattice

2010-09-23

arxiv.org/abs/1009.4700v2

Phys. Rev. B 83, 134431 (2011)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

10 pages, 13 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.83.134431

Employing numerical linked-cluster expansions (NLCEs) along with exact diagonalizations of finite clusters with periodic boundary condition, we study the energy, specific heat, entropy, and various susceptibilities of the antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model on the checkerboard lattice. NLCEs, combined with extrapolation techniques, allow us to access temperatures much lower than those accessible to exact diagonalization and other series expansions. We find that the high-temperature peak in specific heat decreases as the frustration increases, consistent with the large amount of unquenched entropy in the region around maximum classical frustration, where the nearest-neighbor and next-nearest neighbor exchange interactions (J and J', respectively) have the same strength, and with the formation of a second peak at lower temperatures. The staggered susceptibility shows a change of character when J' increases beyond 0.75J, implying the disappearance of the long-range antiferromagnetic order at zero temperature. For J'=4J, in the limit of weakly coupled crossed chains, we find large susceptibilities for stripe and Neel order with Q=(pi/2,pi/2) at low temperatures with antiferromagnetic correlations along the chains. Other magnetic and bond orderings, such as a plaquette valence-bond solid and a crossed-dimer order suggested by previous studies, have also been investigated.

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