Exact Ground States in Spin Systems with Orbital Degeneracy

Abstract

We present exact ground states in spin models with orbital degeneracy in one and higher dimensions. A method to obtain the exact ground states of the models when the Hamiltonians are composed of the products of two commutable operators is proposed. For the case of the spin-1/2 model with two-fold degeneracy some exact ground states are given, such as the Valence-Bond (VB), the magnetically ordered, and the orbitally ordered states under particular parameter regimes. We also find models with the higher spin and degeneracy which have the new type VB ground states in the spin and the orbital sectors.