Classical and quantum phases of the pyrochlore $S=1/2$ magnet with Heisenberg and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions

Abstract

We investigate the ground state and critical temperature phase diagrams of the classical and quantum $S=1/2$ pyrochlore lattice with nearest-neighbor Heisenberg and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions (DMI). We consider ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic Heisenberg exchange as well as direct and indirect DMI. Classically, three ground states are found: all-in/all-out, ferromagnetic and a locally ordered $XY$ phase, known as ${\Gamma }_5$, which displays an accidental classical U(1) degeneracy. Quantum zero-point energy fluctuations are found to lift the classical ground state degeneracy and select the ${\psi }_3$ state in most parts of the ${\Gamma }_5$ regime. Likewise, thermal fluctuations treated classically, select the ${\psi }_3$ state at $T=0^{+}$. In contrast, classical Monte Carlo finds that the system orders at $T_c$ in the ${\psi }_2$ state of ${\Gamma }_5$ for antiferromagnetic Heisenberg exchange and indirect DMI with a transition from ${\psi }_2$ to ${\psi }_3$ at a temperature $T_{{\Gamma }_5}<T_c$. The same method finds that the system orders via a single transition at $T_c$ directly into the ${\psi }_3$ state for most of the region with ferromagnetic Heisenberg exchange and indirect DMI. Such ordering behavior at $T_c$ for the $S=1/2$ quantum model is corroborated by high-temperature series expansion. To investigate the $T=0$ quantum ground states, we apply the pseudo-fermion functional renormalization group (PFFRG). The quantum paramagnetic phase of the pure antiferromagnetic $S=1/2$ Heisenberg model is found to persist over a finite region in the phase diagram for both direct or indirect DMI. We find that near the boundary of ferromagnetism and ${\Gamma }_5$ antiferromagnetism the system may potentially realize a quantum ground state lacking conventional magnetic order. Otherwise, for the largest portion of the phase diagram, PFFRG finds the same ordered phases as in the classical model.

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