Magnetization ramp of the kagome lattice antiferromagnet

Abstract

The magnetization process of the Heisenberg antiferromagnet on the kagome lattice is studied by numerical-diagonalization method. Though the magnetization plateau was considered to appear at the one-third of the magnetization saturation, recent reexamination of the magnetization process of the same model from another viewpoint of the field-derivative of the magnetization in finite-size data from the numerical-diagonalization calculation up to 36 sites suggests that the behavior at around one-third height of the saturation is clearly different from typical magnetization plateaux, which we should call the magnetiztaion ramp. The present study reports our new numerical-diagonalization result up to 39 sites, which reveals well the characteristics of the magnetization ramp. The behavior of the kagome lattice antiferromagnet is compared with the typical magnetization plateux of the Heisenberg antiferromagnet on the triangular lattice.