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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 86, Issue 20, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.86.205124
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- ARO Grant [W911NF-09-1-0527]
- NSF Grant [DMR-0955778]
- Aspen Center for Physics under NSF Grant [PHY-1066293]
- Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- Division Of Materials Research
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [955778] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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The expected phenomenology of noninteracting topological band insulators (TBIs) is now largely theoretically understood. However, the fate of TBIs in the presence of interactions remains an active area of research with novel, interaction-driven topological states possible, as well as new exotic magnetic states. In this work we study the magnetic phases of an exchange Hamiltonian arising in the strong interaction limit of a Hubbard model on the honeycomb lattice whose noninteracting limit is a two-dimensional TBI recently proposed for the layered heavy transition metal oxide compound (Li,Na)(2)IrO3. By a combination of analytical methods and exact diagonalization studies on finite-size clusters, we map out the magnetic phase diagram of the model. We find that strong spin-orbit coupling can lead to a phase transition from an antiferromagnetic Neel state to a spiral or stripy ordered state. We also discuss the conditions under which a quantum spin liquid may appear in our model, and we compare our results with the different but related Kitaev-Heisenberg-J(2)-J(3) model which has recently been studied in a similar context.
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