Spontaneous Spin Ordering of a Dirac Spin Liquid in a Magnetic Field
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Lee, Patrick A.
Ko, Wing Ho
Wen, Xiao-Gang
Ran, Ying
Date Issued
January 2009
Journal
Physical Review Letters
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American Physical Society
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Ran, Ying et al. “Spontaneous Spin Ordering of a Dirac Spin Liquid in a Magnetic Field.” Physical Review Letters 102.4 (2009): 047205. (C) 2010 The American Physical Society.
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Abstract
The Dirac spin liquid was proposed to be the ground state of the spin-1/2 kagomé antiferromagnets. In a magnetic field B, we show that the state with Fermi pocket is unstable to the Landau level (LL) state. The LL state breaks the spin rotation around the axis of the magnetic field. We find that the LL state has an in-plane 120° q=0 magnetization M which scales with the external field M∼B[subscript α], where α is a universal number of the Dirac spin liquid. We discuss the related experimental implications which can be used to detect the possible Dirac spin liquid phase in herbertsmithite ZnCu[subscript 3](OH)[subscript 6]C[subscript l2].
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.047205
