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DMRG Numerical Study of the Kagom{e} Antiferromagnet

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 نشر من قبل HongChen Jiang
 تاريخ النشر 2008
  مجال البحث فيزياء
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We numerically study the spin-1/2 antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model on the kagom{e} lattice using the density-matrix renormalization group (DMRG) method. We find that the ground state is a magnetically disordered spin liquid, characterized by an exponential decay of spin-spin correlation function in real space and a magnetic structure factor showing system-size independent peaks at commersurate antiferromangetic wavevectors. We obtain a spin triplet excitation gap $Delta E(S=1)=0.055pm 0.005$ by extrapolation based on the large size results, and confirm the presence of gapless singlet excitations. The physical nature of such an exotic spin liquid is also discussed.



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