<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!DOCTYPE article  PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD Journal Publishing DTD v3.0 20080202//EN" "http://dtd.nlm.nih.gov/publishing/3.0/journalpublishing3.dtd"><article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="3.0" xml:lang="en" article-type="research article"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">JMP</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Journal of Modern Physics</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="epub">2153-1196</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Scientific Research Publishing</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.4236/jmp.2019.101002</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">JMP-89873</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Articles</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="Discipline-v2"><subject>Physics&amp;Mathematics</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>
 
 
  Phase Diagram of an &lt;i&gt;S&lt;/i&gt; = 1/2 &lt;i&gt;J&lt;/i&gt;&lt;sub&gt;1&lt;/sub&gt;-&lt;i&gt;J&lt;/i&gt;&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt; Anisotropic Heisenberg Antiferromagnet on a Triangular Lattice
 
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Nobuo</surname><given-names>Suzuki</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sup>1</sup></xref><xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor1"><sup>*</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Fumitaka</surname><given-names>Matsubara</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2"><sup>2</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Sumiyoshi</surname><given-names>Fujiki</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sup>1</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Takayuki</surname><given-names>Shirakura</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff3"><sup>3</sup></xref></contrib></contrib-group><aff id="aff2"><addr-line>Department of Applied Physics, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff1"><addr-line>Faculty of Science and Technology, Tohoku Bunka Gakuen University, Sendai, Japan</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff3"><addr-line>Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Iwate University, Morioka, Japan</addr-line></aff><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>10</day><month>01</month><year>2019</year></pub-date><volume>10</volume><issue>01</issue><fpage>8</fpage><lpage>19</lpage><history><date date-type="received"><day>14,</day>	<month>December</month>	<year>2018</year></date><date date-type="rev-recd"><day>11,</day>	<month>January</month>	<year>2019</year>	</date><date date-type="accepted"><day>14,</day>	<month>January</month>	<year>2019</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement>&#169; Copyright  2014 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. </copyright-statement><copyright-year>2014</copyright-year><license><license-p>This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>
 
 
  We study the ground state of an 
  <em>S</em>=1/2 anisotropic 
  <em>a </em>(
  ≡J
  <sub>z</sub>/J
  <sub>xy</sub>) Heisenberg antiferromagnet with nearest (
  <em>J</em>
  <sub>1</sub>) and next-nearest (
  <em>J</em>
  <sub>2</sub>) neighbor exchange interactions on a triangular lattice using the exact diagonalization method. We obtain the energy, squared sublattice magnetizations, and their Binder ratios on finite lattices with 
  <em>N</em>
  &amp;le;36 sites. We estimate the threshold 
  <em>&lt;span style=&quot;white-space:nowrap;&quot;&gt;J&lt;sup&gt;(t)&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;sub style=&quot;margin-left:-6px;&quot;&gt; 2&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/span&gt; (a)</em> between the three-sublattice N&#233;el state and the spin liquid (SL) state, and 
   
  <em><em>&lt;span style=&quot;white-space:nowrap;&quot;&gt;J&lt;sup&gt;(s)&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;sub style=&quot;margin-left:-6px;&quot;&gt; 2&lt;/sub&gt;&lt;/span&gt; (a)</em> </em> between the stripe state and the SL state. The SL state exists over a wide range in the 
  <em>α</em>-
  <em>J</em>
  <sub>2</sub> plane. For 
  <em style="white-space:normal;">α&gt;1</em> , the xy component of the magnetization is destroyed by quantum fluctuations, and the classical distorted 120
  &amp;deg; structure is replaced by the collinear state.
 
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Quantum Spin</kwd><kwd> Triangular Lattice</kwd><kwd> Quantum Fluctuation</kwd><kwd> Spin Liquid</kwd><kwd> Exact Diagnalization</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><body><sec id="s1"><title>1. Introduction</title><p>Over the past three decades, the low temperature properties of low-dimensional quantum systems have been studied because of the exotic spin states that can arise from quantum fluctuations. The quantum antiferromagnetic Heisenberg (QAFH) model on a triangular lattice is a typical quantum frustrated system. This involves a generalized model with an antiferromagnetic nearest-neighbor (NN) interaction J 1 ( &gt; 0 ) and a next-nearest-neighbor (NNN) interaction J 2 , the model Hamiltonian of which given by</p><p>H = 2 J 1 ∑ 〈 i , j 〉 [ S i x S j x + S i y S j y + α S i z S j z ] + 2 J 2 ∑ 〈 〈 i , j 〉 〉 [ S i x S j x + S i y S j y + α S i z S j z ] , (1)</p><p>where S i ν is the ν component ( ν = x , y , z ) of the quantum spin S = 1 / 2 at lattice site i, α ( ≡ J z / J x y ) is an exchange anisotropy, and the sums 〈 i , j 〉 and 〈 〈 i , j 〉 〉 run over all NN and NNN pairs of sites, respectively. Hereafter we set J 1 = 1 as the unit of energy scaling. The ground state (GS) of an isotropic QAFH model ( α = 1 ) with J 2 = 0 is the central issue of the model. Anderson proposed a resonating-valence-bond state or a spin liquid (SL) state as the GS of the model [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.89873-ref1">1</xref>] . Since then, many authors have used various methods to study the model [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.89873-ref2">2</xref>] - [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.89873-ref16">16</xref>] . The GS of the model is now widely believed to have the classical long-range-order (LRO) in the form of the 3-sublattice structure (120˚ N&#233;el state). However recent experiments on model compounds such as κ-(ET)<sub>2</sub>Cu<sub>2</sub>(CN)<sub>3</sub> [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.89873-ref17">17</xref>] , EtMe<sub>3</sub>Sb[Pd(dmit)<sub>2</sub>]<sub>2</sub> [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.89873-ref18">18</xref>] , and Ba<sub>3</sub>IrTi<sub>2</sub>O<sub>9</sub> [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.89873-ref19">19</xref>] have observed no LRO down to very low temperatures. Motivated by this discrepancy, the present authors [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.89873-ref14">14</xref>] (hereafter referred to as SMFS) reexamined the GS of an anisotropic QAFH model with 0 ≤ α &lt; ∞ on finite lattices having used an exact diagonalization technique, and found that the classical LRO is absent for 0.55 ≲ α ≲ 1.67 . This includes the GS of the isotropic model ( α = 1 ) with J 2 = 0 , i.e., it has no LRO and is the SL state.</p><p>In the present paper, we consider the effect of the NNN interaction J 2 on the anisotropic QAFH model. The isotropic QAFH model with J 2 was studied recently using approximations such as a variational Monte Carlo (VMC) method [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.89873-ref20">20</xref>] , a many-variable VMC (mVMC) method [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.89873-ref21">21</xref>] , a coupled cluster method (CCM) [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.89873-ref22">22</xref>] , and a density matrix renormalization group method [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.89873-ref23">23</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.89873-ref24">24</xref>] . These approaches showed that the 120˚ N&#233;el state occurs for J 2 &lt; J 2 ( t ) and that a four-sublattice antiferromagnetic LRO state (stripe N&#233;el state) occurs for J 2 &gt; J 2 ( s ) , i.e., the SL state appears between them, J 2 ( t ) ≲ J 2 ≲ J 2 ( s ) . The thresholds have been estimated as J 2 ( t ) ∼ 0.06 and J 2 ( s ) ∼ 0.16 [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.89873-ref20">20</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.89873-ref22">22</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.89873-ref23">23</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.89873-ref24">24</xref>] , although the mVMC method suggested a smaller region of the SL state, i.e., J 2 ( t ) ≃ 0.10 and J 2 ( s ) ≃ 0.135 [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.89873-ref21">21</xref>] . However, an exact result for finite lattices by SMFS [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.89873-ref14">14</xref>] suggested J 2 ( t ) &lt; 0 . No studies have been carried out on J 2 ( t ) and J 2 ( s ) using the exact diagonalization technique. We therefore apply the same method used by SMFS to the model extended with J 2 . We calculate exactly the squared sublattice magnetization of finite lattices, and we estimate J 2 ( t ) and J 2 ( s ) using their Binder ratios over a wide range of α and try to draw the phase diagram in theα-J<sub>2</sub> plane.</p><p>In Section 2, we present our method with the finite lattices. In Section 3, we estimate the threshold J 2 ( t ) ( α ) between the 120˚ N&#233;el state and the SL state. In Section 4, we consider the stripe N&#233;el state and its threshold J 2 ( s ) ( α ) with the SL state. In Section 5, we propose a phase diagram of the model.</p></sec><sec id="s2"><title>2. Method</title><p>It is known that the GS of the classical model is a 120˚ N&#233;el state when J 2 &lt; J 2 ( c l a s ) , and the stripe N&#233;el state when J 2 &gt; J 2 ( c l a s ) , where J 2 ( c l a s ) = 1 / 8 for α ≤ 1 and tends to zero as α → ∞ . The unit cells of these states are shown in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig1">Figure 1</xref>. Although a similar LRO may be expected to appear in the anisotropic QAFH model, the classical ordered state is not a good quantum state. Therefore a remarkable difference may exist in the phase transition between the classical and quantum models.</p><p>We first consider this problem. Hereafter we refer to the spin space of a lattice with N = 3 n sites with three-sublattice symmetry as the three-sublattice space (3SLS), where n is a natural number. Similarly, we refer to the spin space of a lattice with N = 4 n sites with four-sublattice symmetry as the four-sublattice space (4SLS). The minimum energies per site in the 3SLS and 4SLS are labeled as E t r i and E s t r , respectively. The spin state is in the 3SLS when E t r i &lt; E s t r and in the 4SLS when E s t r &lt; E t r i . In the classical model, the threshold of J 2 ( c l a s ) is one at which the spin space changes from one to the other, and the phase transition at J 2 ( c l a s ) is of the first order. In the quantum model, although the spin space changes at some threshold J 2 ( q u a n ) , no phase transition will take place at J 2 ( q u a n ) , because there would be no LRO in those spin spaces at J 2 ∼ J 2 ( q u a n ) . We must then consider the thresholds and natures of the phase transitions in the 3SLS and in the 4SLS, separately.</p><p>For the 3SLS, we consider the lattices with N = 18   -   30 (and partly N = 36 ) sites with periodic boundary conditions suitable for the three-sublattice structure (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig2">Figure 2</xref>(a)).</p><p>For the 4SLS, we consider the lattices with N = 24, 28, and 32 sites with periodic boundary conditions suitable for the stripe structure (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig2">Figure 2</xref>(b)).</p><p>In either case, we obtain the GS eigenfunction | ψ s G 〉 N of the N sites using the Lanczos method, where s = tri or str for the 3SLS or 4SLS, respectively. The ν component of the magnetization on the Ω l sublattice is defined as</p><p>μ l ν = 2 N s u b N ∑ i ∈ Ω l S i ν , (2)</p><p>where N s u b = 3 and l = A , B , and C for the 3SLS, and N s u b = 4 and l = A , B , C , and D for the 4SLS. The operators of the z, xy, and xyz components of the squared sublattice magnetization are defined as</p><p>m 2 z = 1 N s u b ∑ l ( μ l z ) 2 , (3)</p><p>m 2 x y = 1 N s u b ∑ l ( ( μ l x ) 2 + ( μ l y ) 2 ) , (4)</p><p>m 2 x y z = 1 N s u b ∑ l ( ( μ l x ) 2 + ( μ l y ) 2 + ( μ l z ) 2 ) . (5)</p><p>We calculate the ζ component the squared sublattice magnetization, 〈 m 2, s ζ 〉 N , as</p><p>〈 m 2, s ζ 〉 N = N 〈 ψ s G | m 2 ζ | ψ s G 〉 N (6)</p><p>where ζ = z , xy, or xyz.</p><p>We study the Binder ratios [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.89873-ref25">25</xref>] that are used by SMFS [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.89873-ref14">14</xref>] to estimate the threshold α of the model with J 2 = 0 . At the critical point, the Binder ratio is size invariant. If there is a LRO, the Binder ratio is expected to increase with the system size. In contrast, in the paramagnetic or SL state, the Binder ratio decreases with the system size. This means that the size dependence of the Binder ratio is different from each other with and without a LRO. The z, xy, and xyz components of the Binder ratio can be defined as</p><p>B s z ( N ) = ( 3 − 〈 ( m 2, s z ) 2 〉 N / 〈 m 2, s z 〉 N 2 ) / 2 , (7)</p><p>B s x y ( N ) = 2 − 〈 ( m 2 , s x y ) 2 〉 N / 〈 m 2 , s x y 〉 N 2 , (8)</p><p>B s x y z ( N ) = ( 5 − 3 〈 ( m 2, s x y z ) 2 〉 N / 〈 m 2, s x y z 〉 N 2 ) / 2 . (9)</p><p>Before estimating J 2 ( t ) and J 2 ( s ) , we should examine that no phase transition will take place at J 2 ( q u a n ) . <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig3">Figure 3</xref> shows E t r i and E s t r together with 〈 m 2, t r i x y 〉 N and 〈 m 2, s t r x y 〉 N for the case of α = 0.4 . As mentioned above, the spin space changes at J 2 = J 2 ( q u a n ) ( ∼ 0.065 ) , whereas no signal of a change in the magnetic state is seen at this point. We consider the 3SLS for J 2 &lt; J 2 ( q u a n ) and the 4SLS for J 2 &gt; J 2 ( q u a n ) . A remarkable point is that 〈 m 2, t r i x y 〉 N ( 〈 m 2, s t r x y 〉 N ) changes markedly around J 2 p e a k , at which E t r i ( E s t r ) has its maximum value. In the 3SLS, a bending of E t r i accompanied by a discontinuous drop of 〈 m 2, t r i x y 〉 N indicates exchange in the GS between the lowest and next-lowest energy eigenstates at J 2 p e a k . However, we reason that this says nothing about the</p><p>phase transition between the 120˚ N&#233;el state and the SL state because J 2 p e a k &gt; J 2 ( q u a n ) . The phase boundary should be estimated by a different method. In contrast, we expect J 2 ( s ) to be near J 2 p e a k , because J 2 ( q u a n ) &lt; J 2 p e a k . In Section 4, we consider J 2 p e a k together with the Binder ratio B s t r ζ in order to estimate J 2 ( s ) .</p></sec><sec id="s3"><title>3. Three-Sublattice N&#233;el State</title><p>In this section, we estimate the threshold J 2 ( t ) . We consider 〈 m 2, t r i ζ 〉 N in the GS of the 3SLS. Special attention should be paid to the M z ( = ∑ i   S i z ) subspace in which the GS belongs. For α ≤ 1 , the GS is in the minimum | M z | subspace. For α &gt; 1 , however, the GS may not be restricted to the minimum | M z | subspace depending on J 2 . We then consider the cases α ≤ 1 and α &gt; 1 separately.</p><sec id="s3_1"><title>3.1. XY-Like Case (α ≤ 1)</title><p>For α ≤ 1 , the LRO has the 120˚ N&#233;el state symmetry, and 〈 m 2 , t r i x y 〉 N and 〈 m 2 , t r i x y z 〉 N are calculated for various α . For α &lt; 1 , because the spins lie in the xy plane, we consider the ζ = x y component, whereas the ζ = x y z component for α = 1 . In Figures 4(a)-(d), we present 〈 m 2, t r i ζ 〉 N for α = 0.0 , 0.4, 0.8, and 1.0 as functions of J 2 , respectively. As J 2 is decreased, 〈 m 2, t r i ζ 〉 N increases revealing the development of the 120˚ spin correlation. For small α ( = 0 , 0.4 ) , the finite-size effect (FSE) for J 2 ≲ 0.05 is rather weak implying the occurrence of the 120˚ N&#233;el state. As α is increased, the FSE becomes stronger. In the isotropic case of α = 1.0 , we can see a strong FSE even for J 2 &lt; − 0.1.</p><p>We consider the Binder ratio B t r i ζ ( N ) [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.89873-ref25">25</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.89873-ref14">14</xref>] . In Figures 5(a)-(d), we show B t r i ζ ( N ) for different even N as functions of J 2 for α = 0 , 0.4, 0.8, and 1.0, respectively. For a large J 2 , B t r i ζ ( N ) decreases with increasing N, which reveals that LRO is absent. As J 2 is decreased, B t r i ζ ( N ) increases and the values for different N are close to each other. For α ∼ 0 , B t r i ζ ( N ) for different N intersect at almost the same J 2 (see <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig5">Figure 5</xref>(a) and <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig5">Figure 5</xref>(b)). That is, J 2 ( t ) ( 0 ) = 0.06 &#177; 0.01 and J 2 ( t ) ( 0.4 ) = 0.01 &#177; 0.01 . As α is increased, the intersection points scatter, as seen in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig5">Figure 5</xref>(c). In this case, we consider a lower bound J 2 l and a upper bound J 2 u of J 2 ( t ) ( α ) according to the hypotheses described in Sec. II: the LRO is present when the Binder ratio B s ζ ( N ) increases with N, whereas it is absent when B s ζ ( N ) decreases with increasing N. We evaluate J 2 l and J 2 u , and tentatively estimate J 2 ( t ) ( α ) as their average value. In this way, we get the thresholds as J 2 ( t ) ( 0.6 ) = − 0.01 &#177; 0.01 , J 2 ( t ) ( 0.8 ) = − 0.05 &#177; 0.04 , and J 2 ( t ) ( 0.9 ) = − 0.10 &#177; 0.06 .</p><p>In the case of α = 1.0 , B t r i ζ ( N ) exhibits a somewhat different behavior from those for α &lt; 1.0 . Although B t r i ζ ( N ) increases with decreasing J 2 , its increment</p><p>depends only very weakly on N, especially for J 2 &lt; 0 . We could see no definite intersection point of B t r i ζ ( N ) for N ≥ 24 down to J 2 = − 0.4 , i.e., we could not evaluate J 2 l . Therefore we believe J 2 ( t ) ( 1 ) &lt; − 0.1 , because J 2 u ∼ − 0.1 .</p></sec><sec id="s3_2"><title>3.2. Ising-Like Case (α &gt; 1)</title><p>For α &gt; 1 , we are interested in 〈 m 2, t r i z 〉 N and 〈 m 2 , t r i x y 〉 N because a distorted 120˚ N&#233;el state occurs in the classical model. We obtain the eigenfunction | ψ ( M z ) 〉 N with the minimum energy E ( M z ) for each M z subspaces. Note that we consider only the subspaces of M z ≤ N / 6 because the GS is in the M z = N / 6 subspace for J 2 → − ∞ . The GS eigenfunction | ψ s G 〉 N of the system is one which gives the lowest value among E ( M z ) ’s. When J 2 ≥ 0 , the GS eigenfunction | ψ s G 〉 N is | ψ ( 0 ) 〉 N . As J 2 is decreased, | ψ s G 〉 N successively changes to | ψ ( 1 ) 〉 N , | ψ ( 2 ) 〉 N , ⋯ , | ψ ( N / 6 ) 〉 N at J 2 ( 1 ) , J 2 ( 2 ) , ⋯ , J 2 ( N / 6 ) , respectively. Using | ψ s G 〉 N , we obtain 〈 m 2, t r i z 〉 N and 〈 m 2 , t r i x y 〉 N for various α . A typical result of these is shown in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig6">Figure 6</xref> for α = 1.25 . For J 2 ∼ 0 , both 〈 m 2, t r i z 〉 N and 〈 m 2 , t r i x y 〉 N exhibit a strong N dependence which reveals that 〈 m 2, t r i x y 〉 N , 〈 m 2, t r i z 〉 N → 0 for N → ∞ . As J 2 is decreased, 〈 m 2, t r i z 〉 N and 〈 m 2 , t r i x y 〉 N show different behaviors from each other. For 〈 m 2 , t r i x y 〉 N , they remain almost constant down to J 2 ( 1 ) and drop at J 2 ( 1 ) , J 2 ( 2 ) , ⋯ , J 2 ( N / 6 ) . For the whole range of J 2 , we see a strong N dependence, that suggests that 〈 m 2 , t r i x y 〉 N → 0 for N → ∞ . In contrast, 〈 m 2, t r i z 〉 N gradually increases down to J 2 ( 1 ) and discontinuously jumps at J 2 ( 1 ) , J 2 ( 2 ) , ⋯ , J 2 ( N / 6 ) . It exhibits its own N dependence in different ranges of J 2 . For 1) J 2 &lt; J 2 ( N / 6 ) , 〈 m 2, t r i z 〉 N is almost independent of N. We believe that the classical ferrimagnetic state arises in this range, because 〈 m 2, t r i z 〉 N ∼ 1 and 〈 m 2 , t r i x y 〉 ∞ = 0 . For 2) J 2 ( N / 6 ) &lt; J 2 &lt; J 2 ( 1 ) , 〈 m 2, t r i z 〉 N increases with N revealing the occurrence of the LRO of the z component of the spin. However, for 3) J 2 ( 1 ) &lt; J 2 , 〈 m 2, t r i z 〉 N slightly decreases with increasing N. Note that we also obtain the similar results for α = 1.67 and 2.5.</p><p>In <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig7">Figure 7</xref>(a) and <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig7">Figure 7</xref>(b), we plot the Binder ratio B t r i z ( N ) as a function</p><p>of J 2 for α = 1.25 and α = 2.5 , respectively. For (a) α = 1.25 , we evaluate the lower and upper bounds of J 2 ( t ) as J 2 l ∼ − 0.15 and J 2 u ∼ 0 , i.e., J 2 ( t ) ( 1.25 ) ∼ − 0.08 &#177; 0.08 . For (b) α = 2.5 , we estimate J 2 l ∼ − 0.08 and J 2 u ∼ 0.04 , i.e., J 2 ( t ) ( 2.5 ) ∼ − 0.02 &#177; 0.06 . Note that we also examined B t r i x y ( N ) to confirm the speculation given above and found that, in fact, B t r i x y ( N ) decreases with increasing N for the whole range of J 2 .</p><p>To close this subsection, we emphasize that the distorted 120˚ N&#233;el state is absent in the QAFH model, in contrast to the classical model. We find that, when J 2 &lt; J 2 ( 1 ) , the LRO of the z component of the spin occurs. A question remains as to what the value of J 2 ( 1 ) for N → ∞ , J 2, ∞ ( 1 ) . If J 2 , ∞ ( 1 ) = J 2 ( t ) ( α ) , the LRO of the z component of the spin occurs for J 2 ≤ J 2 ( t ) ( α ) . If not, two possibilities exist in the range J 2 , ∞ ( 1 ) &lt; J 2 &lt; J 2 ( t ) ( α ) : either there is still the LRO, or the system is in a critical state that is similar to the spin state of the Ising model with J 2 = 0 . Further studies are necessary to answer this question.</p></sec></sec><sec id="s4"><title>4. Stripe State</title><p>In this section, we consider the stripe state. We obtain the GS as the eigenfunction | ψ s t r G 〉 N = | ψ ( 0 ) 〉 N with energy E s t r because the stripe state belongs to the M z = 0 subspace. In <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig8">Figure 8</xref>(a) and <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig8">Figure 8</xref>(b), we show these quantities as functions of J 2 for α = 0.4 and α = 1.25 , respectively. We readily see that the results for the N = 24 system are quantitatively different from those of the N = 28 and 32 systems, which lead us to consider mainly data for N ≥ 28 in order to evaluate J 2 ( s ) . We see similar properties in the cases of α &lt; 1 and α &gt; 1 . The magnetization 〈 m 2, s t r ζ 〉 N rapidly increases around the peak posion J 2 p e a k of E s t r that implies the occurrence of the phase transition. When J 2 &lt; J 2 p e a k , 〈 m 2, s t r ζ 〉 N is small and its N dependence is strong which reveals that the stripe state is absent. When J 2 &gt; J 2 p e a k , 〈 m 2, s t r ζ 〉 N is large, although its N dependence is still considerable especially for α &lt; 1 . Then we examine the</p><p>Binder ratio B s t r ζ ( N ) . In <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig9">Figure 9</xref>(a) and <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig9">Figure 9</xref>(b), we plot B s t r x y ( N ) and B s t r z ( N ) as functions of J 2 for α = 0.4 and α = 1.25 , respectively. For α = 0.4 , when J 2 ≳ 0.19 , B s t r x y ( N ) increases with N, suggesting the presence of the stripe state, i.e., J 2 u = 0.19 . In contrast, the lower bound of J 2 ( s ) is evaluated from J 2 p e a k ∼ 0.16 of the N = 32 system because J 2 p e a k increases slightly with N. Therefore we estimate J 2 ( s ) ( 0.4 ) = 0.18 &#177; 0.02 . Similarly, we estimate J 2 ( s ) ( 1.25 ) = 0.195 &#177; 0.010 .</p><p>We have also examined J 2 ( s ) for α = 1 . We may evaluate the lower bound of J 2 l = J 2 p e a k ∼ 0.20 . However, we could not evaluate J 2 u because B s t r x y z ( 32 ) &lt; B s t r x y z ( 28 ) even up to J 2 = 0.3 [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.89873-ref26">26</xref>] .</p></sec><sec id="s5"><title>5. Summary</title><p>We have studied the S = 1 / 2 anisotropic antiferromagnetic model ( α ≡ J z / J x y ) with nearest-neighbor (J<sub>1</sub>) and next-nearest-neighbor (J<sub>2</sub>) interactions on a triangular lattice using the exact diagonalization method. We have obtained the ground-state energy and the sublattice magnetizations for systems of different size N. We have examined Binder ratios to investigate the stability of the long-range order of the system. The N-dependences of Binder ratios suggest the threshold J 2 ( t ) ( α ) between the three-sublattice N&#233;el state and the disordered state, i.e., the spin liquid (SL) state, and the threshold J 2 ( s ) ( α ) between the stripe state and the SL state. The results are summarized in the phase diagram shown in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig1">Figure 1</xref>0. For α &lt; 1 , the classical 120˚ phase or the stripe phase occurs in the xy plane. For α &gt; 1 , the xy component of the sublattice magnetization vanishes, i.e., the distorted 120˚ state is replaced by the collinear (up up down) antiferromagnetic state because of quantum fluctuations.</p><p>We have suggested that the SL state exists over a wide range in theα-J<sub>2</sub> plane in contrast with recent approximation studies [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.89873-ref20">20</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.89873-ref22">22</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.89873-ref23">23</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.89873-ref24">24</xref>] which give J 2 ( t ) ( 1 ) = 0.06 - 0.10 and J 2 ( s ) = 0.135 - 0.16 . The discrepancy will come from either the finite-size effect or approximations. Further studies are necessary to</p><p>establish the thresholds for α ∼ 1 .</p></sec><sec id="s6"><title>Acknowledgements</title><p>Some of the results in this research were obtained using the supercomputing resources at the Cyberscience Center of Tohoku University.</p></sec><sec id="s7"><title>Conflicts of Interest</title><p>The authors declare no conflicts of interest regarding the publication of this paper.</p></sec><sec id="s8"><title>Cite this paper</title><p>Suzuki, N., Matsubara, F., Fujiki, S. and Shirakura, T. (2019) Phase Diagram of an S = 1/2 J<sub>1</sub>-J<sub>2</sub> Anisotropic Heisenberg Antiferromagnet on a Triangular Lattice. Journal of Modern Physics, 10, 8-19. https://doi.org/10.4236/jmp.2019.101002</p></sec></body><back><ref-list><title>References</title><ref id="scirp.89873-ref1"><label>1</label><mixed-citation publication-type="other" xlink:type="simple">Anderson, P.W. 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