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JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER
Volume 31, Issue 50, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1361-648X/ab400c
Keywords
quantum spin liquids; randomness; frustration; quantum fluctuations; random singlet
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- JSPS KAKENHI [17H06137]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [17H06137] Funding Source: KAKEN
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The nature of the randomness-induced quantum spin liquid state, the random-singlet state, is investigated in two dimensions (2D) by means of the exact-diagonalization and the Hams-de Raedt methods for several frustrated lattices, e.g. the triangular, the kagome and the J(1)-J(2) square lattices. Properties of the ground state, the low-energy excitations and the finite-temperature thermodynamic quantities are investigated. The ground state and the low-lying excited states consist of nearly isolated singlet-dimers, clusters of resonating singlet-dimers, and orphan spins. Low-energy excitations are either singlet-to-triplet excitations, diffusion of orphan spins accompanied by the recombination of nearby singlet-diners, creation or destruction of resonating singlet-dimers clusters. The latter two excitations give enhanced dynamical liquid-like' features to the 2D random-singlet state. Comparison is made with the random-singlet state in a 1D chain without frustration, the similarity and the difference between in 1D and in 2D being highlighted. Frustration in a wide sense, not only the geometrical one but also including the one arising from the competition between distinct types of interactions, play an essential role in stabilizing this frustrated random singlet state. Recent experimental situations on both organic and inorganic materials are reviewed and discussed.
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