Deconfined Criticality in the Frustrated Heisenberg Honeycomb Antiferromagnet

作者:Ganesh R*; van den Brink Jeroen; Nishimoto Satoshi
来源:Physical Review Letters, 2013, 110(12): 127203.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.127203

摘要

Using the density matrix renormalization group, we determine the phase diagram of the spin-1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnet on a honeycomb lattice with a nearest-neighbor interaction J(1) and a frustrating, next-nearest-neighbor exchange J(2). As frustration increases, the ground state exhibits Neel, plaquette, and dimer orders, with critical points at J(2)/J(1) = 0.22 and 0.35. We observe that both the spin gap and the corresponding order parameters vanish continuously at both the critical points, indicating the presence of deconfined quantum criticality. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.127203

  • 出版日期2013-3-18

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