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Order versus Disorder in the Quantum Heisenberg Antiferromagnet on the Kagom´e lattice: an approach through 7 exact spectra analysis. 9 9 1 ∗ † † ‡ † n P. Lecheminant , B. Bernu , C. Lhuillier , and L. Pierre , P. Sindzingre u J (February 7, 2008) 7 1 ] l e Abstract - r t s . t A group symmetry analysis of the low lying levels of the spin-1/2 kagom´e a m Heisenberg antiferromagnet is performed for small samples up to N = 27. - d n This new approach allows to follow the effect of quantum fluctuations when o c the sample size increases. The results contradict the scenario of “order by [ 1 disorder” which has been advanced on the basis of large S calculations. A v 7 6 large enough second neighbor ferromagnetic exchange coupling is needed to √ √ 1 6 stabilize the 3 × 3 pattern: the finite size analysis indicates a quantum 0 7 critical transition at a non zero coupling. 9 / t a m - d n o c : v Typeset using REVT X E i X r a ∗Groupe de Physique Statistique, Universit´e de Cergy-Pontoise, site de Saint-Martin, 2 avenue Adolphe Chauvin, 95302 Cergy-Pontoise Cedex, France. †Laboratoire de Physique Th´eor