Quantum entanglement of XY-type spin dimers in Shastry-Sutherland lattice
Abstract
We report a comprehensive study on the origin of the enigmatic disordered ground state within the Shastry-Sutherland lattice, BaCe2ZnS5, at low temperatures. The magnetization and heat capacity data show a lack of magnetic ordering down to 73 mK. We deploy a localized spin dimer model which can accurately reproduce the dynamic structure factor of the neutron data, magnetization and heat capacity data. Remarkably, the intra-dimer exchange interaction shows strong XY-type anisotropy and the ground state of BaCe2ZnS5 is in an entangled state (|> - |>)/2. This is in contrast to the singlet dimer state that is obtained for Heisenberg interactions. These results confirm that BaCe2ZnS5 is in a quantum paramagnet state consisting of entangled spin dimer states.
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