We consider the spin-1/2 antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model on three frustrated lattices (the diamond chain, the dimer-plaquette chain, and the two-dimensional square-kagome lattice) with almost dispersionless lowest magnon band. Eliminating high-energy degrees of freedom at high magnetic fields, we construct low-energy effective Hamiltonians, which are much simpler than the initial ones. These effective Hamiltonians allow a more extended analytical and numerical analysis. In addition to the standard strong-coupling perturbation theory, we also use a localized-magnon-based approach leading to a substantial improvement of the strong-coupling approximation. We perform extensive exact diagonalization calculations to check the quality of different effective Hamiltonians by comparison with the initial models. Based on the effective-model description, we examine the low-temperature properties of the considered frustrated quantum Heisenberg antiferromagnets in the high-field regime. We also apply our approach to explore thermodynamic properties for a generalized diamond spin chain model suitable to describe azurite at high magnetic fields. Interesting features of these highly frustrated spin models consist in a steep increase of the entropy at very small temperatures and a characteristic extra low-temperature peak in the specific heat. The most prominent effect is the existence of a magnetic-field-driven Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless phase transition occurring in the two-dimensional model. DERZHKO, RICHTER, KRUPNITSKA, AND KROKHMALSKII PHYSICAL REVIEW B 88, 094426 (2013) (a) m m m J m J J J J m ,3 m J m m J J J J J m be shown that these localized-magnon states have the lowest energy in their corresponding S z subspace, if the strength of the antiferromagnetic bonds of the trapping cells J 2 exceeds a lower bound. 2,36 J J J J J m ,m FIG. 2. (Color online) The square-kagome lattice described by Hamiltonian (2.1). The trapping cells (squares) for localized magnons are indicated by bold solid red lines (J 2 bonds). 094426-2 FRUSTRATED QUANTUM HEISENBERG . . . PHYSICAL REVIEW B 88, 094426 (2013)
We consider the antiferromagnetic spin-1/2 XXZ Heisenberg model on a frustrated diamond-chain lattice in a z-or x-aligned external magnetic field. We use the strong-coupling approach to elaborate an effective description in the low-temperature strong-field regime. The obtained effective models are spin-1/2 XY chains which are exactly solvable through the Jordan-Wigner fermionization. We perform exact-diagonalization studies of the magnetization curves to test the quality of the effective description. The results may have relevance for the description of the azurite spin-chain compound.
The search for flat-band solid-state realizations is a crucial issue to verify or to challenge theoretical predictions for quantum many-body flat-band systems. For frustrated quantum magnets flat bands lead to various unconventional properties related to the existence of localized many-magnon states. The recently synthesized magnetic compound Ba2CoSi2O6Cl2 seems to be an almost perfect candidate to observe these features in experiments. We develop a theory for Ba2CoSi2O6Cl2 by adapting the localized-magnon concept to this compound. We first show that our theory describes the known experimental facts and then we propose new experimental studies to detect a field-driven phase transition related to a Wigner-crystal-like ordering of localized magnons at low temperatures.
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