Nematicity Liquid in a Trimerized-Kagome Antiferromagnet

Abstract

We theoretically study low-temperature properties of the antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model with half-integer spin $S$ on the Kagome lattice with large trimerization. We have derived a low-energy effective model for general $S$ in terms of spin and nematicity operators in triangular units, and studied their low-temperature correlations for S=3/2 by classical Monte Carlo simulations. The previous study for the S=1/2 case [M. Ferrero et al., Phys. Rev. B 68, 214431 (2003)] reported a spin liquid state at low temperatures driven by a glassy behavior of isolated dimers and trimers of nematicities. The results for S=3/2 show that nematicity dimers and trimers are connected by weak links to form a defective planar network. At very low temperatures, nematicities show glassy slow dynamics, and cluster spins continue to fluctuate in a nonperiodically frozen background of nematicities. The characteristic time of glassy dynamics scales with temperature following a power law.

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