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Main Authors: Sur, Shouvik, Xu, Yi, Li, Shuyi, Gong, Shou-Shu, Nevidomskyy, Andriy H.
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Published: 2022
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.05771
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author Sur, Shouvik
Xu, Yi
Li, Shuyi
Gong, Shou-Shu
Nevidomskyy, Andriy H.
author_facet Sur, Shouvik
Xu, Yi
Li, Shuyi
Gong, Shou-Shu
Nevidomskyy, Andriy H.
contents Frustrated spin-systems have traditionally proven challenging to understand, owing to a scarcity of controlled methods for their analyses. By contrast, under strong magnetic fields, certain aspects of spin systems admit simpler and universal description in terms of hardcore bosons. The bosonic formalism is anchored by the phenomenon of Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC), which has helped explain the behaviors of a wide range of magnetic compounds under applied magnetic fields. Here, we focus on the interplay between frustration and externally applied magnetic field to identify instances where the BEC paradigm is no longer applicable. As a representative example, we consider the antiferromagnetic $J_1 - J_2 - J_3$ model on the square lattice in the presence of a uniform external magnetic field, and demonstrate that the frustration-driven suppression of the Néel order leads to a Lifshitz transition for the hardcore bosons. In the vicinity of the Lifshitz point, the physics becomes unmoored from the BEC paradigm, and the behavior of the system, both at and below the saturation field, is controlled by a Lifshitz multicritical point. We obtain the resultant universal scaling behaviors, and provide strong evidence for the existence of a frustration and magnetic-field driven correlated bosonic liquid state along the entire phase boundary separating the Néel phase from other magnetically ordered states.
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spellingShingle Field induced non-BEC transitions in frustrated magnets
Sur, Shouvik
Xu, Yi
Li, Shuyi
Gong, Shou-Shu
Nevidomskyy, Andriy H.
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Quantum Gases
Frustrated spin-systems have traditionally proven challenging to understand, owing to a scarcity of controlled methods for their analyses. By contrast, under strong magnetic fields, certain aspects of spin systems admit simpler and universal description in terms of hardcore bosons. The bosonic formalism is anchored by the phenomenon of Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC), which has helped explain the behaviors of a wide range of magnetic compounds under applied magnetic fields. Here, we focus on the interplay between frustration and externally applied magnetic field to identify instances where the BEC paradigm is no longer applicable. As a representative example, we consider the antiferromagnetic $J_1 - J_2 - J_3$ model on the square lattice in the presence of a uniform external magnetic field, and demonstrate that the frustration-driven suppression of the Néel order leads to a Lifshitz transition for the hardcore bosons. In the vicinity of the Lifshitz point, the physics becomes unmoored from the BEC paradigm, and the behavior of the system, both at and below the saturation field, is controlled by a Lifshitz multicritical point. We obtain the resultant universal scaling behaviors, and provide strong evidence for the existence of a frustration and magnetic-field driven correlated bosonic liquid state along the entire phase boundary separating the Néel phase from other magnetically ordered states.
title Field induced non-BEC transitions in frustrated magnets
topic Strongly Correlated Electrons
Quantum Gases
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.05771