Generalized plaquette state in the anisotropic Shastry-Sutherland model
We use a generalized Schwinger boson approach to investigate the nature of the intermediate phase (separating the antiferromagnetic and dimer phases) in the Shastry-Sutherland model with exchange anisotropy. Our results confirm the plaquette nature of the intermediate phase and demonstrate that exch...
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| Language: | English |
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2015
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/81122 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/39133 |
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| Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
| Language: | English |
| Summary: | We use a generalized Schwinger boson approach to investigate the nature of the intermediate phase (separating the antiferromagnetic and dimer phases) in the Shastry-Sutherland model with exchange anisotropy. Our results confirm the plaquette nature of the intermediate phase and demonstrate that exchange anisotropy (both Ising-like and XY-like) weakens the plaquette order and ultimately suppresses it altogether for sufficiently strong anisotropy. Interestingly, we find that the low-energy excitation spectrum of the plaquette state changes dramatically near the boundary with the dimer phase—the location of the minimum in the (gapped) lowest excitation mode changes from k=(0,0) to four degenerate points. |
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