A continuous family of fully frustrated Heisenberg models on the Kagome lattice

Department of Physics, Renmin University of China - Beijing 100872, PRC

Received: 9 September 2020
Accepted: 19 January 2021

Abstract

We find that the antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model on the Kagome lattice with nearest-neighboring exchange coupling (NN-KAFH) belongs to a continuous family of fully frustrated Heisenberg model on the Kagome lattice, which has no preferred classical ordering pattern. The model within this family consists of the first-, second- and the third-neighboring exchange coupling J₁, J₂, and J₃, with . We find that when , the lowest band of , namely, the Fourier transform of the exchange coupling, is totally non-dispersive. Exact diagonalization calculation indicates that the ground state of the spin- NN-KAFH is locally stable under the perturbation of J₂ and J₃ when and only when . Interestingly, we find that the same flat band physics is also playing an important role in the RVB description of the spin liquid state on the Kagome lattice. In particular, we show that the extensively studied U(1) Dirac spin liquid state on the Kagome lattice can actually be generated from a continuous family of gauge inequivalent RVB mean-field ansatz, which host very different mean-field spinon dispersion.