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  • Title: Classical Heisenberg spins on a hexagonal lattice with Kitaev couplings.
    Author: Chandra S, Ramola K, Dhar D.
    Journal: Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys; 2010 Sep; 82(3 Pt 1):031113. PubMed ID: 21230031.
    Abstract:
    We analyze the low temperature properties of a system of classical Heisenberg spins on a hexagonal lattice with Kitaev couplings. For a lattice of 2N sites with periodic boundary conditions, the ground states form an (N+1) dimensional manifold. We show that the ensemble of ground states is equivalent to that of a solid-on-solid model with continuously variable heights and nearest neighbor interactions, at a finite temperature. For temperature T tending to zero, all ground states have equal weight, and there is no order by disorder in this model. We argue that the bond-energy bond-energy correlations at distance R decay as 1/R2 at zero temperature. This is verified by Monte Carlo simulations. We also discuss the relation to the quantum spin- S Kitaev model for large S, and obtain lower and upper bounds on the ground-state energy of the quantum model.
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