Numerical study of fractionalization in an Easy-axis Kagome antiferromagnet

Abstract

Based on exact numerical calculations, we show that the generalized Kagome spin model in the easy axis limit exhibits a spin liquid, topologically degenerate ground state over a broad range of phase space. We present an (to our knowledge the first) explicit calculation of the gap (and dispersion) of ``vison'' excitations, and exponentially decaying spin and vison 2-point correlators, hallmarks of deconfined, fractionalized and gapped spinons. The region of the spin liquid phase includes a point at which the model is equivalent to a Heisenberg model with purely two-spin interactions. Beyond this range, a negative ``potential'' term tunes a first order transition to a magnetic ordered state. The nature of the phase transition is also discussed in light of the low energy spectrum. These results greatly expand the results and range of a previous study of this model in the vicinity of an exactly soluble point.

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