Quantum phases in the frustrated Heisenberg model on the bilayer honeycomb lattice

Abstract

We use a combination of analytical and numerical techniques to study the phase diagram of the frustrated Heisenberg model on the bilayer honeycomb lattice. Using the Schwinger boson description of the spin operators followed by a mean field decoupling, the magnetic phase diagram is studied as a function of the frustration coupling $J_2$ and the interlayer coupling $J_{\perp }$. The presence of both magnetically ordered and disordered phases is investigated by means of the evaluation of ground-state energy, spin gap, local magnetization and spin-spin correlations. We observe a phase with a spin gap and short range Néel correlations that survives for non-zero next-nearest-neighbor interaction and interlayer coupling. Furthermore, we detect signatures of a reentrant behavior in the melting of Néel phase and symmetry restoring when the system undergoes a transition from an on-layer nematic valence bond crystal phase to an interlayer valence bond crystal phase. We complement our work with exact diagonalization on small clusters and dimer-series expansion calculations, together with a linear spin wave approach to study the phase diagram as a function of the spin $S$, the frustration and the interlayer couplings.

10 pages, 9 figures

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