Order versus Disorder in the Quantum Heisenberg Antiferromagnet on the Kagom{é} lattice: an approach through exact spectra analysis
arXiv:cond-mat/9706167 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.56.2521
Abstract
A group symmetry analysis of the low lying levels of the spin-1/2 kagomé Heisenberg antiferromagnet is performed for small samples up to N=27. This approach allows to follow the effect of quantum fluctuations when the sample size increases. The results contradict the scenario of ``order by disorder'' which has been advanced on the basis of large S calculations. A large enough second neighbor ferromagnetic exchange coupling is needed to stabilize the $\sqrt 3 \times \sqrt 3$ pattern: the finite size analysis indicates a quantum critical transition at a non zero coupling.
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