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We consider spin-half quantum antiferromagnets in two spatial dimensions in the quantum limit, where the spins are in a valence bond solid (VBS) phase. The transitions between two such VBS phases is studied. In some cases, an interesting…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 Ashvin Vishwanath , L. Balents , T. Senthil

We study the ground-state phase diagram of a spin-1 Heisenberg chain with staggered long-range (LR) interactions decaying as $\propto r^{-\alpha}$ using a quantum Monte Carlo approach based on the split-spin representation. This formulation…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-23 Justin Tim-Lok Chau , Jiarui Zhao , Nicolas Laflorencie , Zi Yang Meng

We investigate quantum phase transitions of the two-dimensional S=1 Shastry-Sutherland model, which is characterized by the frustrated orthogonal-dimer structure, by means of the exact diagonalization method and the Ising-type series…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 Akihisa Koga , Norio Kawakami , Manfred Sigrist

Spontaneous phase separation instabilities with the formation of various types of charge and spin pairing (pseudo)gaps in $U>0$ Hubbard model including the {\it next nearest neighbor coupling} are calculated with the emphasis on the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-05-16 A. N. Kocharian , Kun Fang , G. W. Fernando

We study analytically the Kondo lattice model with an additional nearest-neighbor antiferromagnetic interaction in the framework of large-N theory. We find that there is a local quantum critical point between two phases, a normal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Burdin , M. Grilli , D. R. Grempel

Deconfined quantum criticality of two-dimensional $SU(2)$ quantum antiferromagnets featuring a transition from an antiferromagnetically ordered ground state to a so-called valence-bond solid state, is governed by a non-compact CP$^1$ model…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-12-24 Flavio S. Nogueira , Asle Sudbo

The nature of quantum spin liquids is studied for the spin-$1/2$ antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model on a square lattice containing exchange interactions between nearest-neighbor sites, $J_1$, and those between next-nearest-neighbor sites,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-02-02 Satoshi Morita , Ryui Kaneko , Masatoshi Imada

We construct and analyze a two-dimensional frustrated quantum spin model with plaquette order, in which the low-energy dynamics is controlled by spin singlets. At a critical value of frustration the singlet spectrum becomes gapless,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-31 Valeri N. Kotov , Michael E. Zhitomirsky , Oleg P. Sushkov

We present a fermionic gauge theory for deconfined quantum criticality on the Shastry-Sutherland lattice and reveal its shared low-energy field-theoretic structure with the square lattice. Starting from an SU(2) $\pi$-flux parent state, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-29 Andreas Feuerpfeil , Leyna Shackleton , Atanu Maity , Ronny Thomale , Subir Sachdev , Yasir Iqbal

The power of machine learning algorithms to automatically classify different phases of matter and detect quantum phase transitions without necessity to characterize phases by various quantities like local order parameters or topological…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-03-15 Tanja Duric

Frustrated quantum magnets can host a variety of exotic spin excitations, including fractionalized spin excitations coupled to emergent gauge fields at deconfined quantum critical points (DQCPs) and chiral magnons in altermagnets. Here, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-15 Hongyu Chen , Guijing Duan , Changle Liu , Yi Cui , Weiqiang Yu , Z. Y. Xie , Rong Yu

We present a multimethod investigation into the nature of the recently reported quantum spin liquid (QSL) phase in the spin-$1/2$ Heisenberg antiferromagnet on the Shastry-Sutherland lattice. A comprehensive projective symmetry group…

Quantum spin liquids are commonly thought to be highly sensitive to lattice geometry, symmetry, and microscopic exchange patterns, leading to a proliferation of seemingly distinct phases across frustrated magnets. Here, we provide a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-18 Atanu Maity , Andreas Feuerpfeil , Ronny Thomale , Subir Sachdev , Yasir Iqbal

Exact results in frustrated quantum many-body systems are rare, especially in dimensions higher than one. The Shastry-Sutherland (SS) model stands out as a rare example of a two-dimensional spin system with an exactly solvable dimer singlet…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-21 Kelvin Salou-Smith , Arnaud Ralko , Ludovic D. C. Jaubert

We investigate the $J_1$-$J_2$ Heisenberg model on the triangular lattice with an additional scalar chirality term and show that a chiral spin liquid is stabilized in a sizeable region of the phase diagram. This topological phase is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-02-01 Alexander Wietek , Andreas M. Läuchli

Deconfined quantum critical points (DQCPs) have been proposed as a class of continuous quantum phase transitions occurring between two ordered phases with distinct symmetry-breaking patterns, beyond the conventional framework of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-23 Yi Cui , Rong Yu , Weiqiang Yu

Motivated by the intriguing properties of the Shastry-Sutherland compound SrCu2(BO3)2 under pressure, with a still debated intermediate plaquette phase appearing at around 20 kbar and a possible deconfined critical point at higher pressure…

We present a spin-1/2 bilayer model for the quantum order-disorder transition which (i) can be solved by mean-field theory for bulk quantities, (ii) becomes critical at the transition, and (iii) allows to include intralayer frustration. We…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 C. Gros , W. Wenzel , J. Richter

Frustrated quantum magnets may exhibit fascinating collective phenomena. The main goal of this dissertation is to provide conclusive evidence for the emergence of novel phases of matter like quantum spin liquids in local quantum spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-10-10 Alexander Wietek

We investigate the finite-temperature properties of the $S$=1/2 Shastry-Sutherland Heisenberg model using a quantum typicality method. In the intermediate plaquette state region, we naturally expect to realize the finite-temperature phase…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-04-14 Tokuro Shimokawa