Parity-broken ground state for the spin-1 pyrochlore antiferromagnet
Yasufumi Yamashita; Kazuo Ueda; Manfred Sigrist
Журнал:
Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
Дата:
2001-12-17
Аннотация:
The ground-state properties of the spin-1 pyrochlore antiferromagnet are studied by applying the VBS-like tetrahedron-unit decomposition to the original spin system. The symmetrization required on every vertex is taken into account by introducing a ferromagnetic coupling. The pairwise effective Hamiltonian between the adjacent tetrahedrons is obtained by considering the next nearest neighbour and the third neighbour exchange interactions. We find that the transverse component of the spin chirality exhibits a long-range order, breaking the parity symmetry of the tetrahedral group, while the chirality itself is not broken.
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