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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 73, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.73.094443
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We discuss ground-state selection by quantum fluctuations in frustrated magnets in a strong magnetic field. We show that there exist dynamical symmetries-one a generalization of Henley's gauge like symmetry for collinear spins, the other the quantum relict of non collinear weathervane modes-which ensure a partial survival of the classical degeneracies. We illustrate these for the case of the kagome magnet, where we find zero-point energy differences to be rather small everywhere except near the collinear up-up-down configurations, where there is rotational but not translational symmetry breaking. In the effective Hamiltonian, we demonstrate the presence of a term sensitive to a topological flux. We discuss the connection of such problems to gauge theories by casting the frustrated lattices as medial lattices of appropriately chosen simplex lattices, and in particular we show how the magnetic field can be used to tune the physical sector of the resulting gauge theories.
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