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Comparison of several tetrahedra-based lattices

Maged Elhajal, Benjamin Canals, Claudine Lacroix

cond-mat.str-elarXiv:cond-mat/0104331

Abstract

A comparison of the quantum Heisenberg antiferromagnetic model (QHAM) on the pyrochlore lattice, the checkerboard lattice and the square lattice with crossing interactions is performed. The three lattices are constructed with the same tetrahedral unit cell and this property is used to describe the low energy spectrum by means of an effective hamiltonian restricted to the singlet sector. We analyze the structure of the effective hamiltonian and solve it within mean field approximation for the three lattices.

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