Ordered States in Heisenberg Pyrochlore Antiferromagnets with Dipole-Dipole Interactions

TL;DR

This study explores how dipole-dipole interactions influence the ordered states in Heisenberg pyrochlore antiferromagnets, revealing various complex magnetic states beyond the known spin liquid and Palmer-Chalker states.

Contribution

It provides a detailed numerical analysis of the ground states across different interaction strengths, uncovering new ordered and potentially glassy states with complex periodicities.

Findings

Identification of multiple ordered states including glassy, period 8, and period 4 states.

Observation of multi-K structures in states with periods 4 and 8.

Demonstration of how dipolar interactions induce order in a frustrated spin system.

Abstract

Classical Heisenberg model with both a nearest-neighbor antiferromagnetic interaction and long-range dipole-dipole interactions is investigated by numerically solving the Landau-Lifshitz (LL) equation. The ground state of the model without the dipole-dipole interactions is known to be a classical spin liquid and the system does not order at all temperature because of strong frustration. On the other hand, the ordered state of the model with weak dipolar interactions is known to be the so-called Palmer-Chalker (PC) state, in which a pair of spins and another pair of spins are antiparallel and the former is perpendicular to the latter for each tetrahedron of the lattice. Here ordered states of the model are obtained for various values of the relative strength of the two kinds of the interactions. Besides the spin liquid state and the PC-like state, states that might be considered as glassy state, states of period 8, states of period 4, and states of period of 4 on one sublattice and 8 on other three sublattices are realized. Among the states with period 4 or (and) 8, multi-{\bf K} structures are observed.