Using variational algorithm on an infinite Shastry-Sutherland (SS) lattice we show that the introduction of a static nonmagnetic impurity into a dimerized ground state leads to a formation of a small, localized spin polaron surrounding the impurity site. Due to a particular symmetry of the SS lattice, the polaron is extremely anisotropic with a short spatial extent. The presence of nonmagnetic impurities leads to a formation of pronounced in-gap peaks in the dynamical spin structure factor, which we attribute to the spin-doublet excitations of a single unpaired spin
S=1∕2 surrounded by triplet fluctuations. Our results are relevant for the description of
SrCu2(BO3)2 compound when doped with nonmagnetic atoms at Cu sites.
The Haldane-Shastry spin chain has a myriad of remarkable properties, including Yangian symmetry and, for spin
1/2, explicit highest-weight eigenvectors featuring (the case
α=1/2 of) Jack polynomials. This stems from the spin-Calogero-Sutherland model, which reduces to Haldane-Shastry in a special `freezing' limit. In this work we clarify various points that, to the best of our knowledge, were missing in the literature. We have two main results. First, we show that freezing the
fermionic spin-1/2 Calogero-Sutherland model naturally accounts for the precise form of the Haldane-Shastry wave functions, including the Vandermonde factor squared. Second, we use the fermionic framework to prove the claim of Bernard-Gaudin-Haldane-Pasquier that the Yangian highest-weight eigenvectors of the
SU(r)-version of the Haldane-Shastry chain arise by freezing
SU(r−1) spin-Calogero-Sutherland eigenvectors at
α=1/2.