Journal
PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 84, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.84.024406
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Funding
- NSF [PHY 05-51164]
- MPI PKS
- MPG RZ Garching
- CALMIP
- French ANR [ANR-08-JCJC-0056-01]
- GENCI-IDRIS [2009-100225]
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) [ANR-08-JCJC-0056] Funding Source: Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR)
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We present a comprehensive computational study of the phase diagram of the frustrated S = 1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnet on the honeycomb lattice, with second-nearest (J(2)) and third-neighbor (J(3)) couplings. Using a combination of exact diagonalizations (EDs) of the original spin model, of the Hamiltonian projected into the nearest-neighbor short-range valence-bond basis, and of an effective quantum dimer model, as well as a self-consistent cluster mean-field theory, we determine the boundaries of several magnetically ordered phases in the region J(2), J(3) is an element of [0,1], and find a sizable magnetically disordered region in between. We characterize part of this magnetically disordered phase as a plaquette valence-bond crystal phase. At larger J(2), we locate a sizable region in which staggered valence-bond crystal correlations are found to be important, either due to genuine valence-bond crystal (VBC) ordering or as a consequence of magnetically ordered phases, which break lattice rotational symmetry. Furthermore, we find that a particular parameter-free Gutzwiller projected tight-binding wave function has remarkably accurate energies compared to finite-size extrapolated ED energies along the transition line from conventional Neel to plaquette VBC phases, a fact that points to possibly interesting critical behavior-such as a deconfined critical point-across this transition. We also comment on the relevance of this spin model to model the spin liquid region found in the half filled Hubbard model on the honeycomb lattice.
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