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The honeycomb-lattice cobaltate Na$_3$Co$_2$SbO$_6$ has recently been proposed to be a proximate Kitaev quantum spin liquid~(QSL) candidate. However, non-Kitaev terms in the Hamiltonian lead to a zigzag-type antiferromagnetic~(AFM) order at…

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The ground-state properties of the spin-1/2 antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model with spatially anisotropic couplings on a square lattice are investigated by a spin-rotation-invariant Green's-function approach and by Lanczos diagonalizations…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Ihle , C. Schindelin , A. Weisse , H. Fehske

The spin-$\frac12$ triangular lattice antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model has been for a long time the prototypical model of magnetic frustration. However, only very recently this model has been proposed to be realized in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-03-30 Matías G. Gonzalez , Bernard Bernu , Laurent Pierre , Laura Messio

We report the detailed analysis of specific heat [C$_{\rm P}$(T)] and ac-susceptibility for magnetically frustrated Sr$_{2-x}$La$_x$CoNbO$_6$ ($x=$ 0--1) double perovskites to understand low temperature complex magnetic interactions and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-11-30 Ajay Kumar , B. Schwarz , H. Ehrenberg , R. S. Dhaka

Two-dimensional honeycomb lattices, characterized by their low coordination numbers, provide a fertile platform for exploring various quantum phenomena due to the intricate interplay between competing magnetic interactions, spin-orbit…

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The ground state of the $S=1/2$ kagome Heisenberg antiferromagnet is now recognized as a spin liquid, but its precise nature remains unsettled, even if more and more clues point towards a gapless spin liquid. We use high temperature series…

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We report spin wave and DMRG studies of the ground and low-lying excited states of uniform and dimerized alternating spin chains. The DMRG procedure is also employed to obtain low-temperature thermodynamic properties of the system. The…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 Swapan K. Pati , S. Ramasesha , Diptiman Sen

Motivated by inelastic neutron scattering data on Cs_2CuCl_4, we explore spin-1/2 triangular lattice antiferromagnets with both spatial and easy-plane exchange anisotropies, the latter due to an observed Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 Jason Alicea , Olexei I. Motrunich , Matthew P. A. Fisher

We investigate the zero- and finite-temperature properties of the bond-random $s=1/2$ Heisenberg antiferromagnet on the pyrochlore lattice by the exact diagonalization and the Hams--de Raedt methods. We find that the randomness induces the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-08-28 Kazuki Uematsu , Hikaru Kawamura

We report the thermodynamic and muon spin relaxation ($\mu$SR) evidences for a possible gapless spin liquid in Tm$_{3}$Sb$_{3}$Zn$_{2}$O$_{14}$, with the rare-earth ions Tm$^{3+}$ forming a two-dimensional kagom\'{e} lattice. We extract the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-11-09 Zhaofeng Ding , Yanxing Yang , Jian Zhang , Cheng Tan , Zihao Zhu , Gang Chen , Lei Shu

Motivated by recent experiments on Ba3NiSb2O9, we investigate possible quantum spin liquid ground states for spin S=1 Heisenberg models on the triangular lattice. We use Variational Monte Carlo techniques to calculate the energies of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-12-27 Samuel Bieri , Maksym Serbyn , T. Senthil , Patrick A. Lee

We study the phase diagram at T=0 of the antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model on the triangular lattice with spatially-anisotropic interactions. For values of the anisotropy very close to J_alpha/J_beta=0.50, conventional spin wave theory…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Adolfo E. Trumper

We employ Monte Carlo simulations in order to investigate critical behavior of a geometrically frustrated spin-1 Ising antiferromagnet on a triangular lattice in the presence of a single-ion anisotropy. It has been previously found that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-06-25 Milan Žukovič , Andrej Bobák

After decades of debate, now there is a rough consensus that at zero temperature the spin-$1/2$ Heisenberg antiferromagnet on the triangular lattice is three-sublattice $120^\circ$ magnetically ordered, in contrast to a quantum spin liquid…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-06-19 Qian Li , Hong Li , Jize Zhao , Hong-Gang Luo , Z. Y. Xie

The two-dimensional triangular-lattice antiferromagnet (TLAF) is a textbook example of frustrated magnetic systems. Despite its simplicity, the TLAF model exhibits a highly rich and complex magnetic phase diagram, featuring numerous…

We study the zero-temperature quantum phase diagram of a spin-1 Heisenberg antiferromagnet on the honeycomb lattice with both nearest-neighbor exchange coupling $J_{1}>0$ and frustrating next-nearest-neighbor coupling $J_{2} \equiv \kappa…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-06-30 P. H. Y. Li , R. F. Bishop

We report the results of low-temperature thermal and magnetic measurements on Ba$_3$CoNb$_2$O$_9$ powder, described as a uniform triangular-lattice antiferromagnet (TLAF) with a fictitious spin-1/2. Ba$_3$CoNb$_2$O$_9$ is found to undergo…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-22 Kazuya Yokota , Nobuyuki Kurita , Hidekazu Tanaka

The magnetic phase diagram and the thermodynamic properties of a square lattice containing antiferromagnetically coupled spin-1/2 triangles are studied. A Heisenberg Hamiltonian with three strong intra-triangle exchange coupling constants…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 Stefan Wessel , Stephan Haas

The delafossite-like compound NaYbO$_2$ hosts a triangular lattice of Yb$^{3+}$ moments and is a promising candidate for the realization of a quantum spin liquid ground state -- an exotic, quantum-disordered magnetic phase featuring…