Issue |
EPL
Volume 94, Number 6, June 2011
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Article Number | 67004 | |
Number of page(s) | 6 | |
Section | Condensed Matter: Electronic Structure, Electrical, Magnetic and Optical Properties | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/94/67004 | |
Published online | 13 June 2011 |
Unconventional magnetization plateaus in a Shastry-Sutherland spin tube
1
Institut de Théorie des Phénomènes Physiques, EPF Lausanne - CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
2
Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Physik I, Technische Universität Dortmund - D-44221 Dortmund, Germany, EU
a
salvatore.manmana@jila.colorado.edu
Received:
16
March
2011
Accepted:
10
May
2011
Using density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) and perturbative continuous unitary transformations (PCUTs), we study the magnetization process in a magnetic field for all coupling strengths of a quasi-1D version of the 2D Shastry-Sutherland lattice, a frustrated spin tube made of two orthogonal dimer chains. At small inter-dimer coupling, plateaus in the magnetization appear at 1/6, 1/4, 1/3, 3/8, and 1/2. As in 2D, they correspond to a Wigner crystal of triplons. However, close to the boundary of the product singlet phase, plateaus of a new type appear at 1/5 and 3/4. They are stabilized by the localization of bound states of triplons. Their magnetization profile differs significantly from that of single-triplon plateaus and leads to specific NMR signatures. We address the possibility to stabilize such plateaus in further geometries by analyzing small finite clusters using exact diagonalizations and the PCUTs.
PACS: 75.10.Jm – Quantized spin models, including quantum spin frustration / 75.40.Mg – Numerical simulation studies / 75.30.Kz – Magnetic phase boundaries (including classical and quantum magnetic transitions, metamagnetism, etc.)
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