English

Global phase diagram and quantum spin liquids in spin-1/2 triangular antiferromagnet

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2017-08-16 v2

Abstract

We study the spin-1/21/2 Heisenberg model on the triangular lattice with the nearest-neighbor J1>0J_1 > 0, the next-nearest-neighobr J2>0J_2 > 0 Heisenberg interactions, and the additional scalar chiral interaction Jχ(Si×Sj)SkJ_{\chi}(\vec{S}_i \times \vec{S}_j) \cdot \vec{S}_k for the three spins in all the triangles using large-scale density matrix renormalization group calculation on cylinder geometry. With increasing J2J_2 (J2/J10.3J_2/J_1 \leq 0.3) and JχJ_{\chi} (Jχ/J11.0J_{\chi}/J_1 \leq 1.0) interactions, we establish a quantum phase diagram with the magnetically ordered 120120^{\circ} phase, stripe phase, and non-coplanar tetrahedral phase. In between these magnetic order phases, we find a chiral spin liquid (CSL) phase, which is identified as a ν=1/2\nu = 1/2 bosonic fractional quantum Hall state with possible spontaneous rotational symmetry breaking. By switching on the chiral interaction, we find that the previously identified spin liquid in the J1J2J_1 - J_2 triangular model (0.08J2/J10.150.08 \lesssim J_2/J_1 \lesssim 0.15) shows a phase transition to the CSL phase at very small JχJ_{\chi}. We also compute spin triplet gap in both spin liquid phases, and our finite-size results suggest large gap in the odd topological sector but small or vanishing gap in the even sector. We discuss the implications of our results to the nature of the spin liquid phases.

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@article{arxiv.1705.00510,
  title  = {Global phase diagram and quantum spin liquids in spin-1/2 triangular antiferromagnet},
  author = {Shou-Shu Gong and W. Zhu and J. -X. Zhu and D. N. Sheng and Kun Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.00510},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

10 pages, 14 figures

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