Numerical Study of the Kitaev-Heisenberg chain as a spin model of the K-intercalated RuCl3
Cliò Efthimia Agrapidis, Jeroen van den Brink, Satoshi Nishimoto
We study the one-dimensional Kitaev-Heisenberg model as a possible realization of magnetic degrees of freedom of the K-intercalated honeycomb-lattice ruthenium trichloride α -RuCl 3 , denoted as K 0.5 RuCl m . First, we discuss the possible charge ordering patterns in K 0.5 RuCl m , where half of the spins are replaced by nonmagnetic ions in the honeycomb layer. The phase diagram is obtained as a function of nearest-, second-, and third-neighbor repulsions in the atomic limit. We find a strong competition between possible three charge ordering patterns when the repulsions are comparable. We further calculate the spin-spin correlation functions for the 1D Kitaev-Heisenberg model, which is one of the ordering patterns, and consider the effect of the Kitaev term by comparing the results to those for the antiferromagnetic SU(2) Heisenberg chain.
Journal of Physics Conference Series•Mar 1, 2018•1 citation