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Gapless Spin Liquids on the Three-Dimensional Hyperkagome Lattice of Na 4 Ir 3 O 8

2008; American Physical Society; Volume: 101; Issue: 19 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1103/physrevlett.101.197202

1092-0145

Michael J. Lawler, Arun Paramekanti, Yong Baek Kim, Leon Balents,

Organic and Molecular Conductors Research

Recent experiments indicate that ${\mathrm{Na}}_{4}{\mathrm{Ir}}_{3}{\mathrm{O}}_{8}$, a material in which $s=1/2$ Ir local moments live on a three-dimensional ``hyperkagome'' lattice of corner-sharing triangles, may have a quantum spin liquid ground state with gapless spin excitations. Using a combination of exact diagonalization, symmetry analysis of fermionic mean field ground states and Gutzwiller projected variational wave functions studies, we propose a quantum spin liquid with spinon Fermi surfaces as a favorable candidate for the ground state of the Heisenberg model on this lattice. We point out implications of this proposal for thermodynamic properties and discuss possible weak instabilities of the spinon Fermi surfaces.