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TT: Fachverband Tiefe Temperaturen

TT 8: Correlated Electrons: Spin Systems and Itinerant Magnets - Frustrated Magnets I

TT 8.10: Vortrag

Montag, 31. März 2014, 12:00–12:15, HSZ 304

Magnetism in spin models for depleted honeycomb-lattice iridates: Spin-glass order towards percolation — •Matthias Vojta and Eric C. Andrade — Technische Universität Dresden, 01062 Dresden, Germany

Iridates are characterized by a fascinating interplay of spin-orbit and electron-electron interactions. The honeycomb-lattice materials A₂IrO₃ (A=Na,Li) have been proposed to realize pseudospin-1/2 Mott insulating states with strongly anisotropic exchange interactions, described by the Heisenberg-Kitaev model, but other scenarios involving longer-range exchange interactions or more delocalized electrons have been put forward as well.

Here we study the influence of non-magnetic doping, i.e., depleted moments, on the magnetic properties of experimentally relevant variants of the Heisenberg-Kitaev and Heisenberg J₁-J₂-J₃ models. We generically find that the zigzag order of the clean system is replaced, upon doping, by a spin-glass state with short-ranged zigzag correlations. We determine the spin-glass temperature as function of the doping level and argue that this quantity allows to experimentally distinguish the different proposed spin models when the doping is driven across the site percolation threshold of the honeycomb lattice.