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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
卷 95, 期 8, 页码 -出版社
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.95.085132
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- Ministry of Science and Technology of People's Republic of China [2016YFA0301001]
- NSERC of Canada
- Start-Up Funds of Fudan University (Shanghai, People's Republic of China)
- Thousand-Youth-Talent Program of People's Republic of China
- Government of Canada through the Department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada
- Province of Ontario through the Ministry of Research, Innovation and Science
Motivated by the experiments on the rare-earth double perovskites, we propose a generalized Kitaev-Heisenberg model to describe the generic interaction between the spin-orbit-entangled Kramers doublets of the rare-earth moments. We carry out a systematic analysis of the mean-field phase diagram of this new model. In the phase diagram, there exist large regions with a continuous U(1) or O(3) degeneracy. Since no symmetry of the model protects such a continuous degeneracy, we predict that the quantum fluctuation lifts the continuous degeneracy and favors various magnetic orders in the phase diagram. From this order by quantum disorder mechanism, we further predict that the magnetic excitations of the resulting ordered phases are characterized by nearly gapless pseudo-Goldstone modes. We find that there exist Weyl magnon excitations for certain magnetic orders. We expect our prediction to inspire further study of Kitaev physics, the order by quantum disorder phenomenon, and topological spin-wave modes in the rare-earth magnets and the systems alike.
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