A Spin Model for Investigating Chirality
Condensed Matter
2009-10-28 v1
Abstract
Spin chirality has generated great interest recently both from possible applications to flux phases and intrinsically, as an example of a several-site magnetic order parameter that can be long-ranged even where simpler order parameters are not. Previous work (motivated by the flux phases) has focused on antiferromagnetic chiral order; we construct a model in which the chirality orders ferromagnetically and investigate the model's behavior as a function of spin. Enlisting the aid of exact diagonalization, spin-waves, perturbation theory, and mean fields, we conclude that the model likely has long-ranged chiral order for spins 1 and greater and no non-trivial chiral order for spin 1/2.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9505143,
title = {A Spin Model for Investigating Chirality},
author = {D. A. Rabson and S. A. Trugman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9505143},
year = {2009}
}
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