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Trimerized ground state of the spin-1 Heisenberg antiferromagnet on the kagome lattice

arXiv:1406.4767 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.91.100407

Abstract

We study the phase diagram of the spin-1 quantum bilinear-biquadratic antiferromagnet on the kagome lattice using exact diagonalization and the density matrix renormalization group algorithm. The SU(3)-symmetric point of this model Hamiltonian is a spontaneously trimerized state whose qualitative nature persists even at the Heisenberg point, a finding that contrasts previous proposals. We report the ground state energy per site of the Heisenberg model to be -1.410(2) and establish the presence of a spin gap.

4+ pages, 5 figures. Referee comments addressed, modified title reflects findings

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