Phase diagram of depleted Heisenberg model for CaV4O9

Abstract

We have numerically investigated the 1/5-depleted Heisenberg square lattice representing CaV4O9 using the Quantum Monte Carlo loop algorithm. We have determined the phase diagram of the model as a function of the ratio of the two different couplings: bonds within a plaquette and dimer bonds between plaquettes. By calculating both the spin gap and the staggered magnetization we determine the range of stability of the long range ordered (LRO) phase. At isotropic coupling LRO survives the depletion. But the close vicinity of the isotropic point to the spin gap phase leads us to the conclusion that already a small frustrating next nearest neighbor interaction can drive the system into the quantum disordered phase and thus explain the spin gap behavior of CaV4O9.