Left-left-right-right magnetic order in spin-1/2 Kitaev-Heisenberg chain

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Main Authors: Yang, Wang, Xu, Chao, Ma, Shicheng, Nocera, Alberto, Affleck, Ian
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Published: 2024
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author Yang, Wang
Xu, Chao
Ma, Shicheng
Nocera, Alberto
Affleck, Ian
author_facet Yang, Wang
Xu, Chao
Ma, Shicheng
Nocera, Alberto
Affleck, Ian
contents In this work, we perform a combination of analytical and numerical studies on the phase diagram of the spin-1/2 Kitaev-Heisenberg chain in the region of negative Kitaev and positive Heisenberg couplings. Apart from the antiferromagnetic phase, we find a magnetically ordered phase with left-left-right-right order and a gapless phase with central charge value $c=1$, resolving the existing contradictory results in literature regarding this parameter region. In particular, the origin of the left-left-right-right order is clarified based on a perturbative Luttinger liquid analysis. The left-left-right-right phase is further shown to persist in the Kitaev-Heisenberg-Gamma model when a small nonzero Gamma interaction is introduced. Using a coupled-chain method, we also demonstrate that the one-dimensional (1D) left-left-right-right order gives a quasi-1D explanation for the 2D stripy order of the same model on the honeycomb lattice.
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spellingShingle Left-left-right-right magnetic order in spin-1/2 Kitaev-Heisenberg chain
Yang, Wang
Xu, Chao
Ma, Shicheng
Nocera, Alberto
Affleck, Ian
Strongly Correlated Electrons
In this work, we perform a combination of analytical and numerical studies on the phase diagram of the spin-1/2 Kitaev-Heisenberg chain in the region of negative Kitaev and positive Heisenberg couplings. Apart from the antiferromagnetic phase, we find a magnetically ordered phase with left-left-right-right order and a gapless phase with central charge value $c=1$, resolving the existing contradictory results in literature regarding this parameter region. In particular, the origin of the left-left-right-right order is clarified based on a perturbative Luttinger liquid analysis. The left-left-right-right phase is further shown to persist in the Kitaev-Heisenberg-Gamma model when a small nonzero Gamma interaction is introduced. Using a coupled-chain method, we also demonstrate that the one-dimensional (1D) left-left-right-right order gives a quasi-1D explanation for the 2D stripy order of the same model on the honeycomb lattice.
title Left-left-right-right magnetic order in spin-1/2 Kitaev-Heisenberg chain
topic Strongly Correlated Electrons
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.07968