Two Phases Inside the Bose Condensation Dome of Yb_{2}Si_{2}O_{7}
Michael O Flynn1, Thomas E Baker2, Siddharth Jindal3
1Department of Physics, University of California, Davis, Davis, California 95616, USA.
Abstract:
Recent experimental data on Bose-Einstein condensation of magnons in the spin-gap compound Yb_{2}Si_{2}O_{7} revealed an asymmetric Bose-Einstein condensation dome [G. Hester et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 027201 (2019)PRLTAO0031-900710.1103/PhysRevLett.123.027201]. We examine modifications to the Heisenberg model on a breathing honeycomb lattice, showing that this physics can be explained by competing anisotropic perturbations. We employ a gamut of analytical and numerical techniques to show that the anisotropy yields a field driven phase transition from a state with broken Ising symmetry to a phase that breaks no symmetries and crosses over to the polarized limit.
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