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SYPT: Symposium Quantum Phase Transitions

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SYPT 1.4: Invited Talk

Monday, February 25, 2008, 16:00–16:35, H 0105

How to have fun with frustrated ferromagnets — •Nic Shannon1, Tsutomu Momoi2, and Philippe Sindzingre31H. H. Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Royal Fort, Bristol BS8 1TL, UK — 2Condensed Matter Theory Laboratory, RIKEN, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan — 3LPTMC, UMR 7600 of CNRS, UPMC, case 121, 4 Place Jussieu, 75252 Paris Cedex, France

The search for a true quantum “spin liquid” – a quantum magnet which remains disordered at the very lowest temperatures – has been central to research on quantum magnets for more than three decades. Following Anderson, most models of quantum spin liquids proposed to date have been based on frustrated antiferromagnetic interactions. The resulting spin liquid states involve strong singlet bonds between spins, which give rise to a gap in the spin excitation spectrum. None the less, the best characterized experimental realization of a quantum spin liquid is believed to occur in two-dimensional films of solid He III, where the interactions between spins are predominantly ferromagnetic, and the resulting state is gapless. This raises the interesting question of whether the breakdown of long ranged ferromagnetic order offers a new route exotic magnetic ground states? In this talk I review experimental results on unconventional magnetic order in (quasi) two-dimensional spin systems with predominantly ferromagnetic interactions, and present recent theoretical results for novel order parameters in related models [1,2].

[1] Momoi et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 257204 (2006)

[2] Shannon et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 027213 (2006)

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