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Strain-induced phase diagram of the $S = frac32$ Kitaev material $rm{CrSiTe_3}$

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 نشر من قبل Zongsheng Zhou
 تاريخ النشر 2021
  مجال البحث فيزياء
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The interplay among anisotropic magnetic terms, such as the bond-dependent Kitaev interactions and single-ion anisotropy, plays a key role in stabilizing the finite-temperature ferromagnetism in the two-dimensional compound $rm{CrSiTe_3}$. While the Heisenberg interaction is predominant in this material, a recent work shows that it is rather sensitive to the compressive strain, leading to a variety of phases, possibly including a sought-after Kitaev quantum spin liquid [C. Xu, textit{et. al.}, Phys. Rev. Lett. textbf{124}, 087205 (2020)]. To further understand these states, we establish the quantum phase diagram of a related bond-directional spin-$3/2$ model by the density-matrix renormalization group method. As the Heisenberg coupling varies from ferromagnetic to antiferromagnetic, three magnetically ordered phases, i.e., a ferromagnetic phase, a $120^circ$ phase and an antiferromagnetic phase, appear consecutively. All the phases are separated by first-order phase transitions, as revealed by the kinks in the ground-state energy and the jumps in the magnetic order parameters. However, no positive evidence of the quantum spin liquid state is found and possible reasons are discussed briefly.

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