Bose Glass Phase in Heisenberg Dimer Systems

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Abstract

We study magnetic-field-induced antiferromagnetic order in cubic dimer systems with bond disorder. In the absence of randomness, their phase diagram features a dimer spin liquid regime at small fields $h < h_{c1}$, an antiferromagnetically ordered phase at intermediate fields $h \in [h_{c1},h_{c2}]$, and a fully polarized regime at large fields beyond $h_{c2}$. Using stochastic series expansion quantum Monte Carlo simulations, the scaling properties at the quantum critical points are shown to be mean-field-like. Furthermore, we demonstrate that in the presence of bond disorder, a new Bose Glass phase separates the dimer spin liquid regime from the antiferromagnetically ordered phase. This resembles strongly the ``triplon localization" which was recently reported for {\rm Tl$_{1-x}$K$_x$CuCl$_3$} where $K$ is randomly substituted for $Tl$.[1] [1] Y. Shindo and H. Tanaka, J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. Vol.{\bf 73} No.10 (2004).

Authors

  • Omid Nohadani

    University of Southern California

  • Stefan Wessel

    University of Stuttgart, ITP Universitat Stuttgard, University of Stuttgart, Germany

  • Stephan Haas

    University of Southern California, Department of Physics \& Astronomy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0484, Univ. of Southern California, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles