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Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya-driven instabilities in square-kagome quantum antiferromagnets

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2026-03-12 v1 Materials Science

Abstract

Decorated square-kagome quantum antiferromagnets provide a natural setting in which strong frustration, lattice decoration, and spin-orbit-induced anisotropy compete on comparable energy scales. Here we show that in Na6_6Cu7_7BiO4_4(PO4_4)4_4Cl3_3 the coupling (J10J_{10}) which links the decorating Cu(3) sites to the square-kagome backbone, stabilizes the gapped quantum-paramagnetic regime, while symmetry-allowed Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interactions systematically suppress the minimum spinon gap Δspinon\Delta_{\mathrm{spinon}} and drive the system toward magnetic condensation. To establish this, we combine ab initio calculation of the DM vectors with a generalized Schwinger-boson self-consistent mean-field theory that treats singlet and triplet hopping/pairing channels on equal footing. As a benchmark, the isotropic square-kagome Heisenberg model exhibits four competing low-energy saddle points distinguished by their Wilson-loop fluxes and by characteristic static and dynamical structure-factor fingerprints. A minimal DM perturbation does not qualitatively reshape this competing landscape, but already enhances the tendency towards order. For the realistic decorated Hamiltonian, finite-size scaling of Δspinon\Delta_{\mathrm{spinon}} together with momentum-resolved structure factors identifies J10J_{10} (exchange with decorating Cu) as the control parameter of the gapped regime and shows that the full symmetry-allowed DM pattern shifts the system further toward condensation. Our results place Na6_6Cu7_7BiO4_4(PO4_4)4_4Cl3_3 in close proximity to a magnetic instability and provide experimentally testable predictions for anisotropy-enhanced soft modes in decorated square-kagome materials.

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@article{arxiv.2603.10998,
  title  = {Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya-driven instabilities in square-kagome quantum antiferromagnets},
  author = {Leonid S. Taran and Arnaud Ralko and Fedor V. Temnikov and Vladimir V. Mazurenko and Sergey V. Streltsov and Yasir Iqbal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.10998},
  year   = {2026}
}

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14 pages, 12 figures, 5 tables