Scaling and data collapse from local moments in frustrated disordered quantum spin systems.
Scaling and data collapse from local moments in frustrated disordered quantum spin systems.
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DOI:
10.1038/s41467-018-06800-2
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发表时间:
2018-10-22
影响因子:
16.6
通讯作者:
Lee PA
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作者:
Kimchi I;Sheckelton JP;McQueen TM;Lee PA
Recently measurements on various spin–1/2 quantum magnets such as H3LiIr2O6, LiZn2Mo3O8, ZnCu3(OH)6Cl2 and 1T-TaS2—all described by magnetic frustration and quenched disorder but with no other common relation—nevertheless showed apparently universal scaling features at low temperature. In particular the heat capacity C[H, T] in temperature T and magnetic field H exhibits T/H data collapse reminiscent of scaling near a critical point. Here we propose a theory for this scaling collapse based on an emergent random-singlet regime extended to include spin-orbit coupling and antisymmetric Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interactions. We derive the scaling C[H, T]/T ~ H−γFq[T/H] with Fq[x] = xq at small x, with q ∈ {0, 1, 2} an integer exponent whose value depends on spatial symmetries. The agreement with experiments indicates that a fraction of spins form random valence bonds and that these are surrounded by a quantum paramagnetic phase. We also discuss distinct scaling for magnetization with a q-dependent subdominant term enforced by Maxwell’s relations. There are many proposals for new forms of quantum matter in frustrated magnets but in practice disorder prevents the realisation of theoretically-tractable idealised models. Kimchi et al. show that recently observed scaling behavior common to several disordered quantum magnets can be understood as the emergence of a universal random-singlet regime.
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影响因子:
4.6
作者:
Li Y;Liao H;Zhang Z;Li S;Jin F;Ling L;Zhang L;Zou Y;Pi L;Yang Z;Wang J;Wu Z;Zhang Q
通讯作者:
Zhang Q
影响因子:
3.7
作者:
FISHER, DS
通讯作者:
FISHER, DS
DOI:
10.1073/pnas.1706769114
发表时间:
2017-07-03
影响因子:
11.1
作者:
Law, K. T.;Lee, Patrick A.
通讯作者:
Lee, Patrick A.
影响因子:
3.7
作者:
Ribak, A.;Silber, I.;Kanigel, A.
通讯作者:
Kanigel, A.
影响因子:
3.7
作者:
Sheckelton, J. P.;Foronda, F. R.;McQueen, T. M.
通讯作者:
McQueen, T. M.