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Physical review. B, Condensed matter

We analyze the stability of the spontaneously dimerized phase of the frustrated Heisenberg antiferromagnet---the ${J}_{1}{\ensuremath{-}J}_{2}$ model---in two dimensions. The lowest triplet excitation, corresponding to breaking of a singlet bond, is found to be stable in the region $0.38\ensuremath{\lesssim}{J}_{2}{/J}_{1}\ensuremath{\lesssim}0.62.$ In addition we find a stable low-energy collective singlet mode, which reflects the spontaneous violation of the discrete symmetry. The spontaneous dimerization vanishes at the point of second-order quantum transition into the N\'eel ordered phase $[{(J}_{2}{/J}_{1}{)}_{c1}\ensuremath{\approx}0.38].$ We argue that the disappearance of dimer order is related to the vanishing of the singlet energy gap at the transition point.

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