Dynamics and energy landscape of the jammed spin liquid

We study the low temperature static and dynamical properties of the classical bond-disordered antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model on the kagome lattice. This model has recently been shown to host a new type of spin liquid exhibiting an exponentially large number of discrete ground states. Surprisingl...

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Published in:Physical review. B 2019-02, Vol.99 (5), p.054416, Article 054416
Main Authors: Bilitewski, Thomas, Zhitomirsky, Mike E., Moessner, Roderich
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Antiferromagnetism
Computer memory
Eigenvectors
Ground state
Heisenberg theory
Kagome lattice
Spin dynamics
Spin liquid
Statistical models
Stiffness
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Summary:We study the low temperature static and dynamical properties of the classical bond-disordered antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model on the kagome lattice. This model has recently been shown to host a new type of spin liquid exhibiting an exponentially large number of discrete ground states. Surprisingly, despite the rigidity of the ground states, we establish the vanishing of the corresponding spin stiffness. Locally, the low-lying eigenvectors of the Hessian appear to exhibit a fractal inverse participation ratio. Its spin dynamics resembles that of Coulomb Heisenberg spin liquids but exhibits a new low-temperature dynamically arrested regime, which however gets squeezed out with increasing system size. We also probe the properties of the energy landscape underpinning this behavior and find energy barriers between distinct ground states vanishing with system size. In turn the local minima appear highly connected and the system tends to lose memory of its initial state in an accumulation of soft directions.
ISSN:2469-9950
2469-9969
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevB.99.054416