Semiclassical degeneracies and ordering for highly frustrated magnets in a field

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2005-12-22

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0512594v1

Phys.Rev. B73, 094443 (2006)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

10 pages, 8 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.73.094443

We discuss ground state selection by quantum fluctuations in frustrated magnets in a strong magnetic field. We show that there exist dynamical symmetries -- one a generalisation of Henley's gauge-like symmetry for collinear spins, the other the quantum relict of non-collinear weathervane modes -- which ensure a partial survival of the classical degeneracies. We illustrate these for the case of the kagome magnet, where we find zero-point energy differences to be rather small everywhere except near the collinear `up-up-down` configurations, where there is rotational but not translational symmetry breaking. In the effective Hamiltonian, we demonstrate the presence of a term sensitive to a topological `flux'. We discuss the connection of such problems to gauge theories by casting the frustrated lattices as medial lattices of appropriately chosen simplex lattices, and in particular we show how the magnetic field can be used to tune the physical sector of the resulting gauge theories.

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