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Instability of isolated triplet excitations on the Shastry-Sutherland lattice (SSL)

A. Fledderjohann, K. -H. Muetter

cond-matarXiv:cond-mat/0204465

Abstract

Configurations of singlets and triplets on the SSL have been proposed in the literature as variational ground states of the Shastry-Sutherland model at fixed magnetization M. We prove, that isolated triplet excitations on the SSL are unstable if the coupling alpha falls below a critical value alphac=2.0 (approx.). The instability should be visible in the compound SrCu2(BO3)2 where a coupling alpha*=1.48 is realized.

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