https://doi.org/10.1007/s100510050044
Ground state properties of a spin-3/2 model on a decorated square lattice*
Institut für Theoretische Physik,
Zülpicher Strasse 77, 50937 Köln, Germany
Received:
28
June
1999
Published online: 15 January 2000
We present the construction of an optimum ground state for a quantum spin-3/2 antiferromagnet. The spins reside on a decorated square lattice, in which the basis consists of a plaquette of four sites. By using the vertex state model approach we generate the ground state from the same vertices as those used for the corresponding ground state on the hexagonal lattice. The properties of these two ground states are very similar. Particularly there is also a parameter-controlled phase transition from a disordered to a Néel ordered phase. In the regime of this transition, ground state properties can be obtained from an integrable classical vertex model.
PACS: 75.10.Jm – Quantized spin models / 05.50.+q – Lattice theory and statistics (Ising, Potts, etc.)
© EDP Sciences, Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer-Verlag, 2000
