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Ground-state properties of the triangular-lattice Heisenberg antiferromagnet with arbitrary spin quantum number $s$

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2015-09-08 v1

Abstract

We apply the coupled cluster method to high orders of approximation and exact diagonalizations to study the ground-state properties of the triangular-lattice spin-ss Heisenberg antiferromagnet. We calculate the fundamental ground-state quantities, namely, the energy e0e_0, the sublattice magnetization MsubM_{\rm sub}, the in-plane spin stiffness ρs\rho_s and the in-plane magnetic susceptibility χ\chi for spin quantum numbers s=1/2,1,,smaxs=1/2, 1, \ldots, s_{\rm max}, where smax=9/2s_{\rm max}=9/2 for e0e_0 and MsubM_{\rm sub}, smax=4s_{\rm max}=4 for ρs\rho_s and smax=3s_{\rm max}=3 for χ\chi. We use the data for s3/2s \ge 3/2 to estimate the leading quantum corrections to the classical values of e0e_0, MsubM_{\rm sub}, ρs\rho_s, and χ\chi. In addition, we study the magnetization process, the width of the 1/3 plateau as well as the sublattice magnetizations in the plateau state as a function of the spin quantum number ss.

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@article{arxiv.1508.06254,
  title  = {Ground-state properties of the triangular-lattice Heisenberg antiferromagnet with arbitrary spin quantum number $s$},
  author = {O. Götze and J. Richter and R. Zinke and D. J. J. Farnell},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.06254},
  year   = {2015}
}

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23 pages, 9 figures, 4 tables