TY - JOUR
T1 - Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya anisotropy and nonmagnetic impurities in the s= 1 2 kagome system ZnCu3 (OH) 6 Cl2
AU - Rousochatzakis, Ioannis
AU - Manmana, Salvatore R.
AU - Läuchli, Andreas M.
AU - Normand, Bruce
AU - Mila, Frédéric
PY - 2009/6/11
Y1 - 2009/6/11
N2 - Motivated by recent nuclear magnetic resonance experiments on ZnCu3 (OH) 6 Cl2, we present an exact-diagonalization study of the combined effects of nonmagnetic impurities and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interactions in the s=1/2 kagome antiferromagnet. The local response to an applied field and correlation-matrix data reveal that the dimer freezing which occurs around each impurity for D=0 persists at least up to D/J sqar;0.06, where J and D denote, respectively, the exchange and DM interaction energies. The phase transition to the (Q=0) semiclassical 120°state favored at large D takes place at D/Jsqar;0.1. However, the dimers next to the impurity sites remain strong up to values D∼J, far above this critical point, and thus do not participate fully in the ordered state. We discuss the implications of our results for experiments on ZnCu3 (OH) 6 Cl2.
AB - Motivated by recent nuclear magnetic resonance experiments on ZnCu3 (OH) 6 Cl2, we present an exact-diagonalization study of the combined effects of nonmagnetic impurities and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interactions in the s=1/2 kagome antiferromagnet. The local response to an applied field and correlation-matrix data reveal that the dimer freezing which occurs around each impurity for D=0 persists at least up to D/J sqar;0.06, where J and D denote, respectively, the exchange and DM interaction energies. The phase transition to the (Q=0) semiclassical 120°state favored at large D takes place at D/Jsqar;0.1. However, the dimers next to the impurity sites remain strong up to values D∼J, far above this critical point, and thus do not participate fully in the ordered state. We discuss the implications of our results for experiments on ZnCu3 (OH) 6 Cl2.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevB.79.214415
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevB.79.214415
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:67650085384
SN - 1098-0121
VL - 79
JO - Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
JF - Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
IS - 21
M1 - 214415
ER -