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Comment on "Critical properties of highly frustrated pyrochlore antiferromagnets"

Condensed Matter 2009-10-22 v1

Abstract

We argue that the analysis of Reimers {\it et al.} [ Phys. Rev. B {\bf 45}, 7295 (1992)] of their Monte Carlo data on the Heisenberg pyrochlore antiferromagnet, which suggests a new universality class, is not conclusive. By re-analysis of their data, we demonstrate asymptotic volume dependence in some thermodynamic quantities, which suggests the possibility that the transition may be first order.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9301029,
  title  = {Comment on "Critical properties of highly frustrated pyrochlore antiferromagnets"},
  author = {A. Mailhot and M. L. Plumer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9301029},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

5 pages (RevTex 3.0), 3 figures available upon request, CRPS-93-04