Anomalous enhancement of Neel order in the $S = 1/2$ square lattice Heisenberg model under fictitious magnetic field

TL;DR

This paper investigates how a uniform fictitious magnetic field enhances Neel order in the $S=1/2$ square lattice Heisenberg model, revealing anomalously strong effects and non-trivial scaling behaviors beyond traditional magnetic catalysis.

Contribution

The study combines spin-wave approximation and DMRG calculations to uncover the unexpected enhancement and complex scaling of Neel order under fictitious magnetic fields in quantum magnets.

Findings

Fictitious magnetic field enhances Neel order significantly.

Neel magnetization exhibits simple scaling with magnetic length.

Results show anomalously strong enhancement and non-trivial scaling behavior.

Abstract

Fictitious magnetic fields can be introduced in quantum magnets by the strain engineering and the Aharonov-Casher effect. Here, we study impacts of a uniform fictitious magnetic field and corresponding Landau quantization on the Neel order in the $S=1/2$ Heisenberg model on the square lattice as a prototypical system of quantum magnets. We first analyze the system by using the spin-wave approximation. It is found that the staggered magnetization is enhanced by the fictitious magnetic field and it shows a simple scaling behavior with respect to the magnetic length, in contrast to a naive expectation based on the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction. We also perform density matrix renormalization group calculations to fully take quantum effects into account and obtain quantitatively more accurate results. The enhancement is found to be anomalously strong and it shows a non-trivial scaling behavior or a fluctuation induced discontinuity. These results are beyond the well known understanding of correlated systems under magnetic fields called the magnetic catalysis.