Chiral Spin Order in Kondo-Heisenberg systems
Abstract
We demonstrate that Kondo-Heisenberg systems, consisting of itinerant electrons and localized magnetic moments (Kondo impurities), can be used as a principally new platform to realize scalar chiral spin order. The underlying physics is governed by a competition of the Ruderman-Kittel- Kosuya-Yosida (RKKY) indirect exchange interaction between the local moments with the direct Heisenberg one. When the direct exchange is weak and RKKY dominates the isotropic system is in the disordered phase. A moderately large direct exchange leads to an Ising-type phase transition to the phase with chiral spin order. Our nding paves the way towards pioneering experimental realizations of the chiral spin liquid in low dimensional systems with spontaneously broken time reversal symmetry.
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- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Ludwig Maximilian Univ., Munich (Germany)
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- Research Org.:
- Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1412756
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1413557
- Report Number(s):
- BNL-114729-2017-JA
Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007; R&D Project: PO015; KC0202030; TRN: US1800348
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0012704; AC02-98CH10886
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review Letters
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 119; Journal Issue: 24; Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY
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Tsvelik, A. M., and Yevtushenko, O. M. Chiral Spin Order in Kondo-Heisenberg systems. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.247203.
Tsvelik, A. M., & Yevtushenko, O. M. Chiral Spin Order in Kondo-Heisenberg systems. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.247203
Tsvelik, A. M., and Yevtushenko, O. M. Fri .
"Chiral Spin Order in Kondo-Heisenberg systems". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.247203. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1412756.
@article{osti_1412756,
title = {Chiral Spin Order in Kondo-Heisenberg systems},
author = {Tsvelik, A. M. and Yevtushenko, O. M.},
abstractNote = {We demonstrate that Kondo-Heisenberg systems, consisting of itinerant electrons and localized magnetic moments (Kondo impurities), can be used as a principally new platform to realize scalar chiral spin order. The underlying physics is governed by a competition of the Ruderman-Kittel- Kosuya-Yosida (RKKY) indirect exchange interaction between the local moments with the direct Heisenberg one. When the direct exchange is weak and RKKY dominates the isotropic system is in the disordered phase. A moderately large direct exchange leads to an Ising-type phase transition to the phase with chiral spin order. Our nding paves the way towards pioneering experimental realizations of the chiral spin liquid in low dimensional systems with spontaneously broken time reversal symmetry.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.247203},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
number = 24,
volume = 119,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Dec 15 00:00:00 EST 2017},
month = {Fri Dec 15 00:00:00 EST 2017}
}
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FIG. 1: (color on-line) Competition between two different spin interactions in KHS: The spin on each lattice site is decomposed in terms of an orthonormal triad $\mathcal{e}$1,2,3 (green arrows) with $\mathcal{e}$⊥ = (−1)N(r)$\mathcal{e}$3, see Eq.(3). The RKKY exchange interaction (red dashed lines) is mediated by electrons (red circles) and favoursmore »
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