Speaker:

Dr. Andreas Voigt

Affiliation:

The University of Georgia

Title:

Quantum disorder due to singlet formation: The Plaquette lattice

I study the order/disorder transition due to singlet formation in a quantum spin system. The systems is build by spin 1/2 on a two-dimensional square lattice with two different kinds of antiferromagnetic Heisenberg interactions. If one of the interactions becomes sufficiently larger then the other the purely quantum effect of singlet formation drives the system into a disordered phase with only short range correlations in the plaquettes and a spin gap. I study the transition point by evaluating different exact diagonalization data as spin gap and spin-spin correlation. I compare the result of different methods and confirm the critical value for the transition point.


The Seminar Page The Center for Simulational Physics Dep. of Physics and Astronomy The University of Georgia

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