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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 69, Issue 22, Pages -Publisher
AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.69.220403
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The antiferromagnetic Ising model on a checkerboard lattice has an ice-like ground state manifold with extensive degeneracy. and, to leading order in J(xy), deconfined spinon excitations. We explore the role of cyclic exchange arising at order J(xy)(2)/J(z) on the ice states and their associated spinon excitations. By mapping the original problem onto an equivalent quantum six-vertex model, we identify three different phases as a function of the chemical potential for flippable plaquettes-a phase with long range Neel order and confined spinon excitations, a nonmagnetic state of resonating square plaquettes, and a quasicollinear phase with gapped but deconfined spinon excitations. The relevance of the results to the square-lattice quantum dimer model is also discussed.
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