research article
Magnetization plateaux in an extended Shastry-Sutherland model
We study an extended two-dimensional Shastry-Sutherland model in a magnetic field where besides the usual Heisenberg exchanges of the Shastry-Sutherland model two additional SU(2) invariant couplings are included. Perturbative continous unitary transformations are used to determine the leading order effects of the additional couplings on the pure hopping and on the long-range interactions between the triplons which are the most relevant terms for small magnetization. We then compare the energy of various magnetization plateaux in the classical limit and we discuss the implications for the two-dimensional quantum magnet SrCu2(BO3)2.
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research article
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Date Issued
2009
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Volume
145
Article Number
012047
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REVIEWED
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EPFL
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June 24, 2019
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