Destruction of spin-nematic order on randomly depleted triangular lattices

ORAL

Abstract

We consider the spin-1 Heisenberg model with biquadratic interactions on a 2-dimensional triangular lattice with random site dilution. It has been shown for this model that the ground state on a clean lattice exhibits spin nematic order. Using the stochastic series expansion (SSE) quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) algorithm, we study the nature of the order-disorder transition in the thermodynamic limit by extrapolating the ground state nematic order averaged over disorder realizations.

*This research was partially financially supported by NSF DMR-1056536.

Authors

  • Simon Lovell

    • Univ of Kentucky
  • Jonathan Demidio

    • Univ of Kentucky
  • Ribhu Kaul

    • Univ of Kentucky