Highly frustrated spin-lattice models of magnetism and their quantum phase transitions: A microscopic treatment via the coupled cluster method

Abstract

We outline how the coupled cluster method of microscopic quantum many-body theory can be utilized in practice to give highly accurate results for the ground-state properties of a wide variety of highly frustrated and strongly correlated spin-lattice models of interest in quantum magnetism, including their quantum phase transitions. The method itself is described, and it is shown how it may be implemented in practice to high orders in a systematically improvable hierarchy of (so-called LSUB$m$) approximations, by the use of computer-algebraic techniques. The method works from the outset in the thermodynamic limit of an infinite lattice at all levels of approximation, and it is shown both how the "raw" LSUB$m$ results are themselves generally excellent in the sense that they converge rapidly, and how they may accurately be extrapolated to the exact limit, $m\to \infty$, of the truncation index $m$, which denotes the {\it only} approximation made. All of this is illustrated via a specific application to a two-dimensional, frustrated, spin-half $J_1^{XXZ}$--$J_2^{XXZ}$ model on a honeycomb lattice with nearest-neighbor and next-nearest-neighbor interactions with exchange couplings $J_1>0$ and $J_2\equiv \kappa J_1>0$, respectively, where both interactions are of the same anisotropic $XXZ$ type. We show how the method can be used to determine the entire zero-temperature ground-state phase diagram of the model in the range $0\le \kappa \le 1$ of the frustration parameter and $0\le \Delta \le 1$ of the spin-space anisotropy parameter. In particular, we identify a candidate quantum spin-liquid region in the phase space.

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