Degeneracy of the 1/8 plateau and antiferromagnetic phases in the Shastry-Sutherland magnet TmB4
Jennifer Trinh, Sreemanta Mitra, Christos Panagopoulos, Tai Kong, Paul, C. Canfield, and Arthur P. Ramirez
TL;DR
This study investigates the 1/8 fractional plateau in TmB4, revealing it is not a distinct phase but smoothly connected to the antiferromagnetic phase, challenging previous interpretations of this plateau as an emergent state.
Contribution
The paper demonstrates that the 1/8 fractional plateau in TmB4 is not a separate ground state but connects smoothly to the antiferromagnetic phase, providing new insights into SSL spin systems.
Findings
The 1/8-FPP is smoothly connected to the AF phase in TmB4.
The 1/8-FPP is not a distinct ground state.
Implications for Heisenberg spins on SSL are discussed.
Abstract
The 1/8 fractional plateau phase (1/8-FPP) in Shastry-Sutherland Lattice (SSL) spin systems has been viewed an exemplar of emergence on an Archimedean lattice. Here we explore this phase in the Ising magnet TmB4 using high-resolution specific heat (C) and magnetization (M) in the field-temperature plane. We show that the 1/8-FPP is smoothly connected to the antiferromagnetic (AF) phase on ramping the field from H= 0. Thus, the 1/8-FPP is not a distinct ground state of TmB4. The implication of these results for Heisenberg spins on the SSL is discussed.
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