Physics – Condensed Matter – Strongly Correlated Electrons
Scientific paper
2010-11-17
Phys. Rev. B 83, 100404(R) (2011)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Strongly Correlated Electrons
5 pages, 4 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.83.100404
The highly-frustrated spin-1/2 quantum Heisenberg model with both nearest ($J_1$) and next-nearest ($J_2$) neighbor exchange interactions is revisited by using an extended variational space of projected wave functions that are optimized with state-of-the-art methods. Competition between modulated valence-bond crystals (VBCs) proposed in the literature and the Dirac spin liquid (DSL) is investigated. We find that the addition of a {\it small} ferromagnetic next-nearest-neighbor exchange coupling $|J_2|>0.09 J_1$ leads to stabilization of a 36-site unit cell VBC, although the DSL remains a local minimum of the variational parameter landscape. This implies that the VBC is not trivially connected to the DSL: instead it possesses a non-trivial flux pattern and large dimerization.
Becca Federico
Iqbal Yasir
Poilblanc Didier
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