Mechanisms for Spin-Supersolidity in S=1/2 Spin-Dimer Antiferromagnets
Strongly Correlated Electrons
2008-11-18 v1
Abstract
Using perturbative expansions and the contractor renormalization (CORE) algorithm, we obtain effective hard-core bosonic Hamiltonians describing the low-energy physics of spin-dimer antiferromagnets known to display supersolid phases under an applied magnetic field. The resulting effective models are investigated by means of mean-field analysis and quantum Monte Carlo simulations. A "leapfrog mechanism", through means of which extra singlets delocalize in a checkerboard-solid environment via correlated hoppings, is unveiled that accounts for the supersolid behavior.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0807.4190,
title = {Mechanisms for Spin-Supersolidity in S=1/2 Spin-Dimer Antiferromagnets},
author = {J. -D. Picon and A. F. Albuquerque and K. P. Schmidt and N. Laflorencie and M. Troyer and F. Mila},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0807.4190},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
12 pages, 10 figures