Hidden long-range order in kagomé Heisenberg antiferromagnets
- 14 October 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 66 (13) , 132408
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.66.132408
Abstract
We give a physical picture of the low-energy sector of the spin- kagomé Heisenberg antiferromagnet (KAF). It is shown that the kagomé lattice can be presented as a set of stars which contain 12 spins and are arranged in a triangular lattice. Each of these stars has two degenerate singlet ground states which can be considered in terms of pseudospin. As a result of the interaction between stars we get the Hamiltonian of the Ising ferromagnet in a magnetic field. So in contrast to the common view there is a long-range order in KAF consisting of definite singlet states of stars.
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