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MA: Magnetismus
MA 12: Kondo / Heavy Fermions
MA 12.5: Talk
Monday, March 27, 2006, 17:30–17:45, HSZ 403
Bose glass vs. Mott glass in site-diluted S=1 Heisenberg antiferromagnets — •Tommaso Roscilde1,2 and Stephan Haas2 — 1Max-Planck-Institut fuer Quantenoptik, Garching (Germany) — 2University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Making use of large-scale quantum Monte Carlo simulations, we investigate the ground-state phase diagram of the square-lattice S=1 Heisenberg antiferromagnet with strong single-ion anisotropy and in presence of site dilution of the magnetic lattice. Mapping the spins onto Holstein-Primakoff bosons, the single-ion anisotropy is seen to play the role of a repulsive on-site potential for the bosons. The clean limit of the model shows an anisotropy-driven quantum phase transition from an XY ordered (superfluid) phase to a quantum disordered (Mott insulating) phase. A similar transition is also driven by the application of a uniform field on the disordered state. Adding site dilution to the model, the non-trivial interplay between quantum fluctuations and lattice randomness gives rise to a novel quantum-disordered Mott glass phase in zero field, with a gapless spectrum and yet a vanishing uniform susceptibility. Upon applying a field, such phase is turned into a Bose glass, with gapless spectrum and finite susceptibility. The above picture is directly relevant for experiments on doped quasi-low-dimensional Ni compounds, as the recently investigated NiCl2-4SC(NH2)2 (V.S. Zapf et al., cond-mat/0505562).