Competing States in the Two-Dimensional Frustrated Kondo-Necklace Model

Abstract

The interplay between Kondo screening, indirect magnetic interaction and geometrical frustration is studied in the two-dimensional Kondo-necklace model on the triangular lattice. Using infinite projected entangled pair states (iPEPS), we compute the ground state as a function of the antiferromagnetic local Kondo interaction $J_K$ and the Ising-type direct spin-spin interaction $I_z$ . As opposed to previous studies, we do not find partial Kondo screening (PKS) in the isotropic limit $I_z=0$ but the same behavior as in the unfrustrated case, i.e. a direct phase transition between the paradigmatic phases of the Doniach competition: (i) a disordered phase consisting of local spin-singlets at strong $J_K$ and (ii) a magnetically ordered phase at weak $J_K$ . For $I_z>0$, we find a PKS ground state but again in opposite to previous studies, we find that the PKS ground state is in strong competition with a second ground state candidate not found before. This state is characterized by a strongly polarized central spin in each hexagon and its anti-parallel, weakly polarized (i.e. partially screened) neighbors. We name it central spin (CS) phase.

12 pages, 12 figures

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