Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5362–5365 (1999)Ground State Properties of a Fully Frustrated Quantum Spin SystemReceived 20 August 1999; published in the issue dated 20 December 1999 We find that ground states of the quantum Heisenberg antiferromagnet on the geometrically frustrated pyrochlore checkerboard lattice are singlets and can be expressed in terms of positive matrices. The magnetization at zero external field vanishes for each frustrated tetrahedral unit separately, and there is an upper bound of 1/8 in natural units on the susceptibility both for the ground state and at finite temperature. These results are the first exact ones in this field and generalize to some other lattices. The approach is also of interest for other spin systems. © 1999 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.5362
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.5362
PACS:
75.10.Jm, 05.50.+q, 75.40.Cx, 75.45.+j
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