IFLP   13074
INSTITUTO DE FISICA LA PLATA
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Magnetization plateaux and jumps in a frustrated four-leg spin tube under magnetic field
Autor/es:
H. D. ROSALES; M. ARLEGO; F. A. GÓMEZ ALBARRACÍN
Lugar:
Buenos Aires
Reunión:
Conferencia; 27th International Conference of Low Temperature Physics; 2014
Resumen:
We study the ground state phase diagram of a frustrated spin-1/2 four-leg tube in an external magnetic field. We explore the parameter space of this model in the regime of all-antiferromagnetic exchange couplings by means of three different approaches: density matrix renormalization group (DMRG), a low-energy effective Hamiltonian (LEH) and a Hartree variational approach (HVA). We found that in the limit of weakly interacting plaquettes, singlet and triplet states play an important role in the formation of magnetization plateaux. We study the transition regions numerically and analytically, and find that they are described, at first order in a strong- coupling expansion, by an XXZ spin-1/2 chain in a magnetic field; the second-order terms give corrections to the XXZ model. These results are consistent with the DMRG and HVA calculations.