Order by disorder from nonmagnetic impurities in a two-dimensional quantumspin liquid

Citation
S. Wessel et al., Order by disorder from nonmagnetic impurities in a two-dimensional quantumspin liquid, PHYS REV L, 86(6), 2001, pp. 1086-1089
Citations number
20
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
ISSN journal
00319007 → ACNP
Volume
86
Issue
6
Year of publication
2001
Pages
1086 - 1089
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-9007(20010205)86:6<1086:OBDFNI>2.0.ZU;2-#
Abstract
We consider doping of nonmagnetic impurities in the spin-1/2, 1/5-depleted square lattice. This structure, whose undoped phase diagram offers both mag netically ordered and spin-liquid ground states, is realized physically in CaV4O9. Doping into the ordered phase results in a progressive loss of orde r, which becomes complete at the percolation threshold. By contrast, doping into the spin liquids creates a phase of weak but long-ranged antiferromag netic order, a true order-by-disorder phenomenon. We study the phase diagra m of the doped system by computing the static susceptibility and staggered magnetization using a stochastic series-expansion quantum Monte Carlo techn ique.