Effective low-energy description of almost Ising-Heisenberg diamond chain
Abstract
We consider a geometrically frustrated spin-1/2 Ising-Heisenberg diamond chain, which is an exactly solvable model when assuming part of the exchange interactions as Heisenberg ones and another part as Ising ones. A small part is afterwards perturbatively added to the Ising couplings, which enabled us to derive an effective Hamiltonian describing the low-energy behavior of the modified but full quantum version of the initial model. The effective model is much simpler and free of frustration. It is shown that the part added to the originally Ising interaction gives rise to the spin-liquid phase with continuously varying magnetization, which emerges in between the magnetization plateaus and is totally absent in the initial hybrid diamond-chain model. The elaborated approach can also be applied to other hybrid Ising-Heisenberg spin systems.
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@article{arxiv.1510.06185,
title = {Effective low-energy description of almost Ising-Heisenberg diamond chain},
author = {Oleg Derzhko and Olesia Krupnitska and Bohdan Lisnyi and Jozef Strecka},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.06185},
year = {2015}
}
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6 pages, 4 figures