Abstract
The classical Ising model on the frustrated three-dimensional (3D) swedenborgite lattice has disordered spin liquid ground states for all ratios of inter- and intraplanar couplings. Quantum fluctuations due to a transverse field give rise to several exotic phenomena. In the limit of weakly coupled kagome layers we find a 3D version of disorder by disorder degeneracy lifting. For large out-of-plane couplings one-dimensional macrospins are formed, which realize a disordered macrospin liquid phase on an emerging two-dimensional triangular lattice. We speculate about a possibly exotic version of quantum criticality that connects the polarized phase to the macrospin liquid.
- Received 17 March 2016
- Revised 24 November 2016
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.95.060401
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