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Title: Confinement, reduced entanglement, and spin-glass order in a random quantum spin-ice model

Abstract

In this work, we study an effective spin model derived perturbatively from a random transverse-field Ising model on the pyrochlore lattice. The model consists of spin configurations on the pyrochlore lattice, restricted to the spin-ice subspace, with spins interacting with random Ising exchange couplings as well as ring exchanges along the hexagons of the lattice. This model is studied by exact diagonalization up to N=64 site systems. Furthermore, we calculate spin-glass correlation functions and local entanglement entropy ST between spins in a single tetrahedron and the rest of the system. We find that the model undergoes two phase transitions. At weak randomness the model is in a quantum spin-ice phase where ST=ln 6. Increasing randomness, at low transverse fields, first leads to a frozen phase, with long-range spin-glass order and ST=ln 2 corresponding to the Cat states associated with Ising order. Further increase in randomness leads to a random resonating-hexagon phase with a frozen backbone of spins and a broad distribution of entanglement entropies. The implications of these studies for non-Kramers rare-earth pyrochlores are discussed.

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1];  [2];  [1]
  1. Univ. of California, Davis, CA (United States)
  2. Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
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Research Org.:
Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); National Science Foundation (NSF)
OSTI Identifier:
1642496
Report Number(s):
LLNL-JRNL-796781
Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9950; 996944; TRN: US2201912
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC52-07NA27344; DMR 1855111; PHY 1748958
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physical Review B
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 101; Journal Issue: 18; Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9950
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; Exotic phases of matter; magnetic phase transitions; phase diagrams; quantum entanglement; quantum phase transitions; spin glasses; spin lattice models

Citation Formats

Menon, Anirudha, Pardini, Tom, and Singh, Rajiv R. P. Confinement, reduced entanglement, and spin-glass order in a random quantum spin-ice model. United States: N. p., 2020. Web. doi:10.1103/physrevb.101.184423.
Menon, Anirudha, Pardini, Tom, & Singh, Rajiv R. P. Confinement, reduced entanglement, and spin-glass order in a random quantum spin-ice model. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.101.184423
Menon, Anirudha, Pardini, Tom, and Singh, Rajiv R. P. Thu . "Confinement, reduced entanglement, and spin-glass order in a random quantum spin-ice model". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.101.184423. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1642496.
@article{osti_1642496,
title = {Confinement, reduced entanglement, and spin-glass order in a random quantum spin-ice model},
author = {Menon, Anirudha and Pardini, Tom and Singh, Rajiv R. P.},
abstractNote = {In this work, we study an effective spin model derived perturbatively from a random transverse-field Ising model on the pyrochlore lattice. The model consists of spin configurations on the pyrochlore lattice, restricted to the spin-ice subspace, with spins interacting with random Ising exchange couplings as well as ring exchanges along the hexagons of the lattice. This model is studied by exact diagonalization up to N=64 site systems. Furthermore, we calculate spin-glass correlation functions and local entanglement entropy ST between spins in a single tetrahedron and the rest of the system. We find that the model undergoes two phase transitions. At weak randomness the model is in a quantum spin-ice phase where ST=ln 6. Increasing randomness, at low transverse fields, first leads to a frozen phase, with long-range spin-glass order and ST=ln 2 corresponding to the Cat states associated with Ising order. Further increase in randomness leads to a random resonating-hexagon phase with a frozen backbone of spins and a broad distribution of entanglement entropies. The implications of these studies for non-Kramers rare-earth pyrochlores are discussed.},
doi = {10.1103/physrevb.101.184423},
journal = {Physical Review B},
number = 18,
volume = 101,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu May 21 00:00:00 EDT 2020},
month = {Thu May 21 00:00:00 EDT 2020}
}

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