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Spin liquid phase of the Heisenberg model on the triangular lattice

arXiv:1502.04831 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.92.041105

Abstract

We study the Heisenberg model on the triangular lattice with nearest neighbor interaction and next nearest neighbor interaction with the density matrix renormalization group. We are able to study long open cylinders with widths up to 9 lattice spacings. At an intermediate region , we find evidence for a spin liquid (SL) state with short range spin-spin, bond-bond and chiral correlation lengths, bordered by a classical Néel ordered state at small and by a two sub-lattice collinear magnetically ordered state at larger . Focusing on , we find a number of signatures of a gapped SL phase: two quasi-degenerate ground states on even cylinders, with an energy gap that decreases exponentially with the cylinder width; a dimerization effect on odd cylinders; and large spin triplet and singlet bulk gaps.

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