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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
卷 84, 期 24, 页码 -出版社
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.84.245108
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- National Science Foundation [DMR-0808842, DMR-1055522, DGE-0707460]
- Victoria B. Rodgers and the Rose Hills foundation
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Materials Research [1055522] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Recent experiments on the anisotropic spin-1/2 triangular antiferromagnet Cs2CuBr4 have revealed a remarkably rich phase diagram in applied magnetic fields, consisting of an unexpectedly large number of ordered phases. Motivated by this finding, we study the role of three ingredients-spatial anisotropy, Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions, and quantum fluctuations-on the magnetization process of a triangular antiferromagnet, coming from the semiclassical limit. The richness of the problem stems from two key facts: (1) the classical isotropic model with a magnetic field exhibits a large accidental ground-state degeneracy and (2) these three ingredients compete with one another and split this degeneracy in opposing ways. Using a variety of complementary approaches, including extensive Monte Carlo numerics, spin-wave theory, and an analysis of Bose-Einstein condensation of magnons at high fields, we find that their interplay gives rise to a complex phase diagram consisting of numerous incommensurate and commensurate phases. Our results shed light on the observed phase diagram for Cs2CuBr4 and suggest a number of future theoretical and experimental directions that will be useful for obtaining a complete understanding of this material's interesting phenomenology.
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