Ground States of Spin-1/2 Heisenberg Antiferromagnets with Frustration on a Diamond-Like Decorated Square Lattice

TL;DR

This paper investigates the ground-state phase diagram of a frustrated spin-1/2 Heisenberg model on a diamond-like decorated square lattice, identifying phase boundaries and analyzing spin fluctuations using modified spin wave theory and numerical diagonalization.

Contribution

The study introduces a modified spin wave approach to accurately determine phase boundaries and ground-state properties of the frustrated lattice model, confirming the stability of certain cluster states.

Findings

Phase boundary at λ_c=0.974 determined.

Spin reductions of 20% and 5% for different sites.

Other cluster states are absent in the ground-state phase diagram.

Abstract

We study the ground-state phase diagram of a Heisenberg model with spin $S=\frac{1}{2}$ on a diamond-like decorated square lattice. A diamond unit has two types of antiferromagnetic exchange interactions, and the ratio $\lambda$ between the length of the diagonal bond and that of the other four edges determines the strength of frustration. It has been pointed out [J. Phys. Soc. Jpn {\bf85}, 033705 (2016)] that the so-called tetramer-dimer states, which are expected to be stabilized in an intermediate region of $\lambda_{\rm c}<\lambda<2$, are identical to the square-lattice dimer covering states, which ignited renewed interest in high-dimensional diamond-like decorated lattices. In order to determine the phase boundary $\lambda_{\rm c}$, we employ the modified spin wave method to estimate the energy of the ferrimagnetic state and obtain $\lambda_{\rm c}=0.974$. Our obtained magnetizations for spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ sites and for spin-1 sites are $m=0.398$ and $\tilde{m}=0.949$, and spin reductions are 20 \% and 5\%, respectively. This indicates that spin fluctuation is much smaller than that of the $S=\frac{1}{2}$ square-lattice antiferromagnet: thus, we can consider that our obtained ground-state energy is highly accurate. Further, our numerical diagonalization study suggests that other cluster states do not appear in the ground-state phase diagram.