Nematic phase and phase separation near saturation field in frustrated ferromagnets

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Abstract

We discuss effects of quantum fluctuations on magnetization process of quantum frustrated ferromagnets. It is found that, on general grounds, in a neighborhood of a ferromagnet/antiferromagnet classical 1st-order phase boundary in zero external field, a phase separation or non-classical phase must appear slightly below the saturation field in a quantum case, if the classical AF is not an eigenstate. Besides, we study the ferromagnetic $J_1$-$J_2$ $S=1/2$ Heisenberg model ($J_1<0$) on the bcc lattice from the viewpoint of the magnon Bose-Einstein condensation. For $-1.50097 \leq J_1/J_2 \leq -1.389$, the nematic phase is expected and for $-1.389 \leq J_1/J_2 \leq -0.48$ the phase separation appears under high magnetic field.

Authors

  • Hiroaki Ueda

    • Tokyo Metropolitan University
  • Tsutomu Momoi

    • Riken