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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 S=1/2S=1/2 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.

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@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}
}

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12 pages, 10 figures