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Double exchange model on triangular lattice: non-coplanar spin configuration and phase transition near quarter filling

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2013-03-19 v2 Computational Physics

Abstract

Unconventional anomalous Hall effect in frustrated pyrochlore oxides is originated from spin chirality of non-coplanar localized spins, which can also be induced by the competition between ferromagnetic (FM) double exchange interaction JHJ_{H} and antiferromagnetic superexchange interaction JAFJ_{AF}. Here truncated polynomial expansion method and Monte Carlo simulation are adopted to investigate the above model on two-dimensional triangular lattice. We discuss the influence of the range of FM-type spin-spin correlation and strong electron-spin correlation on the truncation error of spin-spin correlation near quarter filling. Two peaks of the probability distribution of spin-spin correlation in non-coplanar spin configuration clearly show that non-coplanar spin configuration is an intermediate phase between FM and 120-degree spin phase. Near quarter filling, there is a phase transition from FM into non-coplanar and further into 120-degree spin phase when JAFJ_{AF} continually increases. Finally the effect of temperature on magnetic structure is discussed.

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@article{arxiv.1206.6944,
  title  = {Double exchange model on triangular lattice: non-coplanar spin configuration and phase transition near quarter filling},
  author = {G. P. Zhang and Jian Zhang and Qi-Li Zhang and Jiang-Tao Zhou and M. H. Shangguan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1206.6944},
  year   = {2013}
}

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10 pages, 5 figures