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Owen Benton1, L D C Jaubert2, Rajiv R P Singh3
1RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS), Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan.
Abstract:
Quantum spin ice materials, pyrochlore magnets with competing Ising and transverse exchange interactions, have been widely discussed as candidates for a quantum spin-liquid ground state. Here, motivated by quantum chemical calculations for Pr pyrochlores, we present the results of a study for frustrated transverse exchange. Using a combination of variational calculations, exact diagonalization, numerical linked-cluster and series expansions, we find that the previously studied U(1) quantum spin liquid, in its π-flux phase, transforms into a nematic quantum spin liquid at a high-symmetry, SU(2) point.
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