Gapless spin liquid and valence-bond solid in the $J_1-J_2$ Heisenberg model on the square lattice: insights from singlet and triplet excitations

Abstract

The spin-$1/2$ $J_1-J_2$ Heisenberg model on the square lattice represents one of the simplest examples in which the effets of magnetic interactions may suppress magnetic order, eventually leading to a pure quantum phase with no local order parameters. This model has been extensively studied in the last three decades, with conflicting results. Here, by using Gutzwiller-projected wave functions and recently developed methods to assess the low-energy spectrum, we show the existence of a level crossing between the lowest-energy triplet and singlet excitations for $J_2/J_1\approx 0.54$. This fact supports the existence of a phase transition between a gapless spin liquid (which is stable for $0.48\lesssim J_2/J_1\lesssim 0.54$) and a valence-bond solid (for $0.54\lesssim J_2/J_1\lesssim 0.6$), even though no clear sign of dimer order is visible in the correlations functions. These results, which confirm recent density-matrix renormalization calculations on cylindrical clusters [L. Wang and A.W. Sandvik, Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 107202 (2018)] reconcile the contraddicting results obtained within different approaches over the years.

5 pages, 6 figures

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