Spiral spin liquid correlations in diamond antiferromagnets

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Abstract

We have introduced a simple model for frustrated magnetism on a diamond lattice, appropriate for a number of recently studied normal spinel materials. The model possesses a massive degeneracy of coplanar spin spiral states, characterized by propagation wavevectors that reside on a two-dimensional surface in momentum space. The degeneracy of low energy states significantly suppresses the ordering temperature relative to the Curie-Weiss temperature $\Theta_{CW}$. In the intermediate temperature regime $T_c

Authors

  • Doron Bergman

    • Phys Dept., U of California Santa Barbara
    • UCSB
  • Jason Alicea

    • Phys Dept., U of California Santa Barbara
  • Emanuel Gull

  • Simon Trebst

    • Station Q, U of California Santa Barbara
  • Leon Balents

    • Phys Dept., U of California Santa Barbara