Cyclic exchange, isolated states and spinon deconfinement in an XXZ Heisenberg model on the checkerboard lattice

dc.creatorShannon, Nic
dc.creatorMisguich, Gregoire
dc.creatorPenc, Karlo
dc.date2004-03-30
dc.date2004-05-06
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T02:57:21Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T02:57:21Z
dc.descriptionThe antiferromagnetic Ising model on a checkerboard lattice has an ice-like ground state manifold with extensive degeneracy. and, to leading order in J_xy, deconfined spinon excitations. We explore the role of cyclic exchange arising at order J^2_xy/J_z on the ice states and their associated spinon excitations. By mapping the original problem onto an equivalent quantum six--vertex model, we identify three different phases as a function of the chemical potential for flippable plaquettes - a phase with long range Neel order and confined spinon excitations, a non-magnetic state of resonating square plaquettes, and a quasi-collinear phase with gapped but deconfined spinon excitations. The relevance of the results to the square--lattice quantum dimer model is also discussed.
dc.description4 pages, 5 figures
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0403729
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0403729
dc.identifierPhys. Rev. B 69, 220403(R) (2004)
dc.identifierdoi:10.1103/PhysRevB.69.220403
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/23635
dc.subjectStrongly Correlated Electrons
dc.subjectStatistical Mechanics
dc.titleCyclic exchange, isolated states and spinon deconfinement in an XXZ Heisenberg model on the checkerboard lattice
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