Physics – Condensed Matter – Strongly Correlated Electrons
Scientific paper
2009-02-10
Phys. Rev. B 79, 224417 (2009)[Editor's Suggestion]
Physics
Condensed Matter
Strongly Correlated Electrons
8 pages, 7 figures
Scientific paper
Motivated by a recent experiment on Rb2Cu3SnF12, where spin-1/2 Cu2+ moments reside on the layers of Kagome-like lattices, we investigate quantum ground states of the antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model on a series of deformed Kagome lattices. The deformation is characterized by a weaker exchange coupling (alpha*J) on certain lattice links appropriate for Rb2Cu3SnF12 with alpha=1 corresponding to the ideal Kagome lattice. In particular, we study possible valence bond solid phases using the perturbation theory around isolated dimer limits, dimer series expansion, and self-consistent bond operator mean field theory. It is shown that the valence bond solid phase with a 36-site unit cell of the ideal Kagome lattice is quite sensitive to a small lattice distortion as the kind discovered in Rb2Cu3SnF12. As a result, we find that a more likely quantum ground state in Rb2Cu3SnF12 is the valence bond solid phase with a 12-site unit cell, where six dimers form a pinwheel structure, leading to strong modification of the elementary triplet and singlet excitation spectra in the deformed Kagome lattices.
Kim Yong Baek
Yang Bohm-Jung
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