Quantum Effects and Broken Symmetries in Frustrated Antiferromagnets

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2001-12-12

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0112207v1

International Journal of Modern Physics B 15, 1799 (2000)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

Review article, 44 pages, 18 figures. See also PRL 87, 097201 (2001)

Scientific paper

10.1142/S0217979201004605

We investigate the interplay between frustration and zero-point quantum fluctuations in the ground state of the triangular and $J_1{-}J_2$ Heisenberg antiferromagnets, using finite-size spin-wave theory, exact diagonalization, and quantum Monte Carlo methods. In the triangular Heisenberg antiferromagnet, by performing a systematic size-scaling analysis, we have obtained strong evidences for a gapless spectrum and a finite value of the thermodynamic order parameter, thus confirming the existence of long-range N\'eel order.The good agreement between the finite-size spin-wave results and the exact and quantum Monte Carlo data also supports the reliability of the spin-wave expansion to describe both the ground state and the low-energy spin excitations of the triangular Heisenberg antiferromagnet. In the $J_1{-}J_2$ Heisenberg model, our results indicate the opening of a finite gap in the thermodynamic excitation spectrum at $J_2/J_1 \simeq 0.4$, marking the melting of the antiferromagnetic N\'eel order and the onset of a non-magnetic ground state. In order to characterize the nature of the latter quantum-disordered phase we have computed the susceptibilities for the most important crystal symmetry breaking operators. In the ordered phase the effectiveness of the spin-wave theory in reproducing the low-energy excitation spectrum suggests that the uniform spin susceptibility of the model is very close to the linear spin-wave prediction.

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