Evidence of a spin liquid phase in the frustrated honeycomb lattice

In the present paper we present some new data supporting the existence of a spin-disordered phase in the Heisenberg model on the honeycomb lattice with antiferromagnetic interactions up to third neighbors along the line J₂=J₃, predicted in [Phys. Rev. B 83, 094506 (2011)]. We use the Schwinger boson...

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Autores principales: Cabra, Daniel Carlos, Lamas, Carlos Alberto, Rosales, Héctor Diego
Formato: Articulo Preprint
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2011
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Acceso en línea:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/129306
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Sumario:In the present paper we present some new data supporting the existence of a spin-disordered phase in the Heisenberg model on the honeycomb lattice with antiferromagnetic interactions up to third neighbors along the line J₂=J₃, predicted in [Phys. Rev. B 83, 094506 (2011)]. We use the Schwinger boson technique followed by a mean field decoupling and exact diagonalization for small systems to show the existence of an intermediate phase with a spin gap and short range Néel correlations in the strong quantum limit (S=1/2).