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Spontaneous spin ordering of Dirac spin liquid in a magnetic field

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2015-05-13 v3

Abstract

The Dirac spin liquid was proposed to be the ground state of the spin-1/2 Kagome antiferromagnets. In a magnetic field BB, we show that the state with Fermi pocket is unstable to the Landau level (LL) state. The LL state breaks the spin rotation around the axis of the magnetic field. We find that the LL state has an in-plane 120^{\circ} q=0q=0 magnetization MM which scales with the external field MBαM\sim B^{\alpha}, where α\alpha is an intrinsic calculable universal number of the Dirac spin liquid. We discuss the related experimental implications which can be used to detect the possible Dirac spin liquid phase in Herbertsmithite ZnCu3_3(OH)6_6Cl2_2.

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@article{arxiv.0710.4574,
  title  = {Spontaneous spin ordering of Dirac spin liquid in a magnetic field},
  author = {Ying Ran and Wing-Ho Ko and Patrick A. Lee and Xiao-Gang Wen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0710.4574},
  year   = {2015}
}

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rewritten for clarity

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