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Broken discrete symmetries in a frustrated honeycomb antiferromagnet
Rosales, Héctor Diego
; Cabra, Daniel Carlos
; Lamas, Carlos Alberto
; Pujol, P.; Zhitomirsky, M. E.
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Fecha de publicación:
03/2013
Editorial:
American Physical Society
Revista:
Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
ISSN:
1098-0121
Idioma:
Inglés
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Resumen
We study the magnetic phase diagram of the J1-J2 Heisenberg antiferromagnet on a honeycomb lattice at the strongly frustrated point J2/J1=1/2 using large-scale Monte Carlo simulations. At low temperatures we find three different field regimes, each characterized by different broken discrete symmetries. In low magnetic fields up to hc1/J1≈2.9 the Z3 rotational lattice symmetry is spontaneously broken while a 1/2-magnetization plateau is stabilized around hc2/J1=4. The collinear plateau state and the coplanar state in higher fields break the Z 4 translational symmetry and correspond to triple-q magnetic structures. The intermediate phase hc1<h<hc2 has an interesting symmetry structure, breaking simultaneously the Z3 and Z4 symmetries. At much lower temperatures the spatial broken discrete symmetries coexist with the quasi-long-range order of the transverse spin components.
Palabras clave:
Honeycomb Lattice
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Frustrated Magnetism
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Phase Transitions
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Rosales, Héctor Diego; Cabra, Daniel Carlos; Lamas, Carlos Alberto; Pujol, P.; Zhitomirsky, M. E.; Broken discrete symmetries in a frustrated honeycomb antiferromagnet; American Physical Society; Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics; 87; 10; 3-2013; 104402-104407
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