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Quantum Phase Transitions in the Shastry-Sutherland Model for

arXiv:cond-mat/0003435 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.4461

Abstract

We investigate the quantum phase transitions in the frustrated antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model for by using the series expansion method. It is found that a novel spin-gap phase, which is adiabatically connected to the plaquette-singlet phase, exists between the dimer and the magnetically ordered phases known so far. When the ratio of the competing exchange couplings is varied, this spin-gap phase exhibits the first- (second-) order quantum phase transition to the dimer (the magnetically ordered) phase at the critical point (). Our results shed light on some controversial arguments about the nature of the quantum phase transitions in this model.

4 pages, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett

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