2020

Gapless spin liquid and valence-bond solid in the $J_1-J_2$ Heisenberg model on the square lattice: insights from singlet and triplet excitations

Ferrari, Francesco, Becca, Federico

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The spin-$1/2$ $J_1-J_2$ Heisenberg model on the square lattice represents one of the simplest examples in which the effets of magnetic interactions may suppress magnetic order, eventually leading to a pure quantum phase with no local order parameters.

This model has been extensively studied in the last three decades, with conflicting results.
Here, by using Gutzwiller-projected wave functions and recently developed methods to assess the low-energy spectrum, we show the existence of a level crossing between the lowest-energy triplet and singlet excitations for $J_2/J_1 \approx 0.54$.
This fact supports the existence of a phase transition between a gapless spin liquid (which is stable for $0.48 \lesssim J_2/J_1 \lesssim 0.54$) and a valence-bond solid (for $0.54 \lesssim J_2/J_1 \lesssim 0.6$), even though no clear sign of dimer order is visible in the correlations functions.

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