Physics – Condensed Matter – Strongly Correlated Electrons
Scientific paper
2011-11-30
Eur. Phys. J. B 85 (2012), 25
Physics
Condensed Matter
Strongly Correlated Electrons
17 pages, 8 figues (Figs. 2-7 have subfigs. (a)-(d))
Scientific paper
10.1140/epjb/e2011-20766-8
Using the coupled cluster method we investigate spin-$s$ $J_{1}$-$J_{2}'$ Heisenberg antiferromagnets (HAFs) on an infinite, anisotropic, triangular lattice when the spin quantum number $s=1$ or $s=3/2$. With respect to a square-lattice geometry the model has antiferromagnetic ($J_{1} > 0$) bonds between nearest neighbours and competing ($J_{2}' > 0$) bonds between next-nearest neighbours across only one of the diagonals of each square plaquette, the same one in each square. In a topologically equivalent triangular-lattice geometry, we have two types of nearest-neighbour bonds: namely the $J_{2}' \equiv \kappa J_{1}$ bonds along parallel chains and the $J_{1}$ bonds producing an interchain coupling. The model thus interpolates between an isotropic HAF on the square lattice at $\kappa = 0$ and a set of decoupled chains at $\kappa \rightarrow \infty$, with the isotropic HAF on the triangular lattice in between at $\kappa = 1$. For both the $s=1$ and the $s=3/2$ models we find a second-order quantum phase transition at $\kappa_{c}=0.615 \pm 0.010$ and $\kappa_{c}=0.575 \pm 0.005$ respectively, between a N\'{e}el antiferromagnetic state and a helical state. In both cases the ground-state energy $E$ and its first derivative $dE/d\kappa$ are continuous at $\kappa=\kappa_{c}$, while the order parameter for the transition (viz., the average on-site magnetization) does not go to zero on either side of the transition. The transition at $\kappa = \kappa_{c}$ for both the $s=1$ and $s=3/2$ cases is analogous to that observed in our previous work for the $s=1/2$ case at a value $\kappa_{c}=0.80 \pm 0.01$. However, for the higher spin values the transition is of continuous (second-order) type, as in the classical case, whereas for the $s=1/2$ case it appears to be weakly first-order in nature (although a second-order transition could not be excluded).
Bishop Raymond F.
Li P. H. Y.
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