Phase diagram and quantum order by disorder in the kitaev K1 - K2 honeycomb magnet

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Beitragende

  • Ioannis Rousochatzakis - , University of Minnesota - College of Science and Engineering (Autor:in)
  • Johannes Reuther - , Freie Universität (FU) Berlin, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie (HZB) (Autor:in)
  • Ronny Thomale - , Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (Autor:in)
  • Stephan Rachel - , Professur für Theoretische Festkörperphysik (Autor:in)
  • N. B. Perkins - , University of Minnesota - College of Science and Engineering (Autor:in)

Abstract

We show that the topological Kitaev spin liquid on the honeycomb lattice is extremely fragile against the second-neighbor Kitaev coupling K2, which has recently been shown to be the dominant perturbation away from the nearest-neighbor model in iridate Na2IrO3, and may also play a role in α-RuCl3 and Li2IrO3. This coupling naturally explains the zigzag ordering (without introducing unrealistically large longer-range Heisenberg exchange terms) and the special entanglement between real and spin space observed recently in Na2IrO3. Moreover, the minimal K1 - K2 model that we present here holds the unique property that the classical and quantum phase diagrams and their respective order-by-disorder mechanisms are qualitatively different due to the fundamentally different symmetries of the classical and quantum counterparts.

Details

OriginalspracheEnglisch
Aufsatznummer041035
FachzeitschriftPhysical Review X
Jahrgang5
Ausgabenummer4
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 2015
Peer-Review-StatusJa

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