Theoretical study of quantum spin liquids in S=12 hyper-hyperkagome magnets: Classification, heat capacity, and dynamical spin structure factor
| Autor: | Yong Baek Kim, Li Ern Chern |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Physics
Condensed matter physics Lattice (group) Fermi surface 02 engineering and technology Spin structure 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology 01 natural sciences Heat capacity Inelastic neutron scattering Spinon 0103 physical sciences Condensed Matter::Strongly Correlated Electrons Quantum spin liquid 010306 general physics 0210 nano-technology Spin (physics) |
| Zdroj: | Physical Review B. 104 |
| ISSN: | 2469-9969 2469-9950 |
| DOI: | 10.1103/physrevb.104.094413 |
| Popis: | Recent experiments suggest a quantum spin liquid ground state in the material ${\mathrm{PbCuTe}}_{2}{\mathrm{O}}_{6}$, where $S=1/2$ moments are coupled by antiferromagnetic Heisenberg interactions into a three-dimensional structure of corner sharing triangles dubbed the hyper-hyperkagome lattice. It exhibits a richer connectivity, and thus likely a stronger geometric frustration, than the relatively well studied hyperkagome lattice. Here, we investigate the possible quantum spin liquids in the $S=1/2$ hyper-hyperkagome magnet using the complex fermion mean field theory. Extending the results of a previous projective symmetry group analysis, we identify only two ${\mathbb{Z}}_{2}$ spin liquids and a $U(1)$ spin liquid that are compatible with the hyper-hyperkagome structure. The $U(1)$ spin liquid has a spinon Fermi surface. For the ${\mathbb{Z}}_{2}$ spin liquids, one has a small excitation gap, while the other is gapless and proximate to the $U(1)$ spin liquid. We show that the gapped and gapless spin liquids can in principle be distinguished by heat capacity measurements. Moreover, we calculate the dynamical spin structure factors of all three spin liquids and find that they highly resemble the inelastic neutron scattering spectra of ${\mathrm{PbCuTe}}_{2}{\mathrm{O}}_{6}$. Implications of our work to the experiments, as well as its relations to the existing theoretical studies, are discussed. |
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