2002
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.88.077202
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Chiral Kosterlitz-Thouless Transition in the Frustrated Heisenberg Antiferromagnet on a Pyrochlore Slab

Abstract: Ordering of the geometrically frustrated two-dimensional Heisenberg antiferromagnet on a pyrochlore slab is studied by Monte Carlo simulations. In contrast to the kagomé Heisenberg antiferromagnet, the model exhibits locally non-coplanar spin structures at low temperatures, bearing nontrivial chiral degrees of freedom. Under certain conditions, the model exhibits a novel KosterlitzThouless-type transition at a finite temperature associated with these chiral degrees of freedom.

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“…The fact that a macroscopic number of spin configurations satisfy the minimum energy condition leads to a classical spin liquid regime at temperatures T J. Indeed, our Monte Carlo simulations show no signs of phase transition down to temperatures T ≈ 0.001J, consistent with previous studies [32][33][34][35]. Instead, a spin-disordered phase with strong short-range correlation is obtained at low temperatures.…”
Section: Model and Methodssupporting
confidence: 90%
“…The fact that a macroscopic number of spin configurations satisfy the minimum energy condition leads to a classical spin liquid regime at temperatures T J. Indeed, our Monte Carlo simulations show no signs of phase transition down to temperatures T ≈ 0.001J, consistent with previous studies [32][33][34][35]. Instead, a spin-disordered phase with strong short-range correlation is obtained at low temperatures.…”
Section: Model and Methodssupporting
confidence: 90%
“…(e) SrCr 8−x Ga 4+x O 19 SrCr 8−x Ga 4+x O 19 (SCGO) is a S=3/2 kagome-bilayer (or pyrochlore slab) system, extensively studied in 1990's as a typical model system of kagome-lattice Heisenberg AF [73,74,75,76,77,78,79,80,81,82,83]. Crystal structure of magnetic ions (Cr 3+ ) in this material, however, is not really a planar kagome, but rather a kagome-bilayer where two kagome layers are connected via a sparse triangular layer in between, i.e., a pyrochlore slab along (111) [84,85]. Thus, a constituent unit of the lattice is a tetrahedron rather than a triangle.…”
Section: Experiments On Frustrated Heisenberg Antiferromagnets In Two...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Theoretical studies on the magnet with pyrochlore slab have been reported. 14,15) Another well studied frustrating system is an insulating spinel ZnCr 2 O 4 . [8][9][10] The magnetic ions on the octahedral B sites of the cubic spinel structure form the pyrochlore lattice so that the spin frustration is expected if the dominant nearest-neighbor interactions are antiferromagnetic.…”
Section: -7)mentioning
confidence: 99%