Spiral ground state in the quasi-two-dimensional spin-1/2 system Cu2GeO4

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2010-09-16

arxiv.org/abs/1009.3287v2

Phys. Rev. B 83, 104415 (2011)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

Extended version: 8 pages, 5 figures, 1 table

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.83.104415

We apply density functional theory band structure calculations, the coupled-cluster method, and exact diagonalization to investigate the microscopic magnetic model of the spin-1/2 compound Cu2GeO4. The model is quasi-two-dimensional, with uniform spin chains along one direction and frustrated spin chains along the other direction. The coupling along the uniform chains is antiferromagnetic, J 130 K. The couplings along the frustrated chains are J1 -60 K and J2 80 K between nearest neighbors and next-nearest neighbors, respectively. The ground state of the quantum model is a spiral, with the reduced sublattice magnetization of 0.62 mu_B and the pitch angle of 84 deg, both renormalized by quantum effects. The proposed spiral ground state of Cu2GeO4 opens a way to magnetoelectric effects in this compound.

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