English

The strength of frustration and quantum fluctuations in LiVCuO4

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2015-11-25 v2

Abstract

For the 1D-frustrated ferromagnetic J_1-J_2 model with interchain coupling added, we analyze the dynamical and static structure factor S(k,omega), the pitch angle phi of the magnetic structure, the magnetization curve of edge-shared chain cuprates, and focus on LiCuVO4 for which neither a perturbed spinon nor a spin wave approach can be applied. phi is found to be most sensitive to the interplay of frustration and quantum fluctuations. For LiVCuO4 the obtained exchange parameters J are in accord with the results for a realistic 5-band extended Hubbard model and LSDA + U predictions yielding alpha=J_2/|J_1| about 0.75 in contrast to 5.5 > alpha > 1.42 suggested in the literature. The alpha-regime of the empirical phi-values in NaCu2O2 and linarite are considered, too.

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@article{arxiv.1105.2810,
  title  = {The strength of frustration and quantum fluctuations in LiVCuO4},
  author = {Satoshi Nishimoto and Stefan-Ludwig Drechsler and Roman Kuzian and Johannes Richter and Jiri Malek and Miriam Schmitt and Jeroen van den Brink and Helge Rosner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1105.2810},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

7 pages, 7 figures, (1 figure added), improved text including also the abstract (the present second version has been submitted to EPL 26.10.2011, so far with one missing first referee report)