Magnetization of the Shastry-Sutherland antiferromagnet near the Ising limit

2009/04/20 by Fangzhou Liu, Subir Sachdev, Liu, Fangzhou +1
Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Condensed Matter Physics #FOS: Physical sciences #Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism #Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el) #Theoretical and Computational Physics #cond-mat.str-el

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0904.3018

10 pages, 7 figures

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Abstract

Motivated by recent experiments on TmB4 (arXiv:0712.1537), we examine the phase diagram of the Shastry-Sutherland antiferromagnet in an applied magnetic field in the limit of strong Ising anisotropy. In classical Ising limit, we demonstrate that the only fractional magnetization plateau is at 1/3 of the saturated magnetization. We study the perturbative influence of transverse quantum spin fluctuations, and present evidence that they can stabilize a narrow 1/2 magnetization plateau.

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