Two-step melting of three-sublattice order in S = 1 easy-axis triangular lattice antiferromagnets

DOI10.1140/EPJB/E2018-90353-8MaRDI QIDQ6163689zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Dariush Heidarian, Kedar Damle

Publication date 26 July 2023

Published in The European Physical Journal B. Condensed Matter and Complex Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.01346

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics of magnetic materials (82D40)

Abstract: We consider $S=1$ triangular lattice Heisenberg antiferromagnets with a strong single-ion anisotropy $D$ that dominates over the nearest-neighbour antiferromagnetic exchange $J$. In this limit of small $J/D$, we study low temperature ($TsimJllD$) properties of such magnets by employing a low-energy description in terms of hard-core bosons with nearest neighbour repulsion $Vapprox4J+J^2/D$ and nearest neighbour unfrustrated hopping $tapprox{J}^2/2D$. Using a cluster Stochastic Series Expansion (SSE) algorithm to perform sign-problem-free quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) simulations of this effective model, we establish that the ground-state three-sublattice order of the easy-axis spin-density $S^z(vecr)$ melts in zero field ($B=0$) in a {em two-step} manner via an intermediate temperature phase characterized by power-law three-sublattice order with a temperature dependent exponent $eta(T)in[frac19,frac14]$. For $eta(T)<frac29$ in this phase, we find that the uniform easy-axis susceptibility of an $LimesL$ sample diverges as $ch{i}_{L}sim{L}^{2-9eta}$ at $B=0$, consistent with a recent prediction that the thermodynamic susceptibility to a uniform field $B$ along the easy axis diverges at small $B$ as $ch{i}_{measy-axis}(B)sim{B}^{-frac4-18eta4-9eta}$ in this regime.

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