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Ordered ground states of kagome magnets with generic exchange anisotropy

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Benton,  Owen
Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Max Planck Society;

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Benton, O. (2021). Ordered ground states of kagome magnets with generic exchange anisotropy. Physical Review B, 103(17): 174425. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.103.174425.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0008-E6F1-4
Abstract
There is a growing family of rare-earth kagome materials with dominant nearest-neighbor interactions and strong spin-orbit coupling. The low symmetry of these materials makes theoretical description complicated, with six distinct nearest-neighbor coupling parameters allowed. In this article, we ask what kinds of classical, ordered, ground states can be expected to occur in these materials, assuming generic (i.e., non-fine-tuned) sets of exchange parameters. We use symmetry analysis to show that there are only five distinct classical ground state phases occurring for generic parameters. The five phases are: (i) a coplanar, twofold degenerate state with vanishing magnetization (A(1)), (ii) a noncoplanar, twofold degenerate state with magnetization perpendicular to the kagome plane (A(2)), (iii) a coplanar, sixfold degenerate state with magnetization lying within the kagome plane (E-coplanar), (iv) a noncoplanar, sixfold degenerate state with magnetization lying within a mirror plane of the lattice (E-noncoplanar(6)), (v) a noncoplanar, twelvefold degenerate state with magnetization in an arbitrary direction (E-noncoplanar(12)). All five are translation invariant (q = 0) states. Having found the set of possible ground states, the ground state phase diagram is obtained by comparing numerically optimized energies for each possibility as a function of the coupling parameters. The state E-noncoplanar(12) is extremely rare, occupying <1% of the full phase diagram, so for practical purposes there are four main ordered states likely to occur in anisotropic kagome magnets with dominant nearest neighbor interactions. These results can aid in interpreting recent experiments on "tripod kagome" systems R(3)A(2)Sb(3)O(14), as well as materials closer to the isotropic limit such as Cr and Fe jarosites.