1206.5740 (Peter P. Orth et al.)

Emergent Critical Phase and Ricci Flow in a 2D Frustrated Heisenberg
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Peter P. Orth, Premala Chandra, Piers Coleman, Jörg Schmalian

We introduce a two-dimensional frustrated Heisenberg antiferromagnet on interpenetrating honeycomb and triangular lattices. Classically the two sublattices decouple, and "order from disorder" drives them into a coplanar state. Applying Friedan's geometric approach to nonlinear sigma models, we show that the scaling of the spin-stiffnesses corresponds to the Ricci flow of a 4D metric tensor. At low temperatures, the relative phase between the spins on the two sublattices is described by a six-state clock model with an emergent critical phase.

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