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Depleted pyrochlore antiferromagnets

Statistical Mechanics 2009-11-13 v1

Abstract

I consider the class of "depleted pyrochlore" lattices of corner-sharing triangles, made by removing spins from a pyrochlore lattice such that every tetrahedron loses exactly one. Previously known examples are the "hyperkagome" and "kagome staircase". I give criteria in terms of loops for whether a given depleted lattice can order analogous to the kagome \sqrt{3} \times \sqrt{three} state, and also show how the pseudo-dipolar correlations (due to local constraints) generalize to even the random depleted case.

Cite

@article{arxiv.0809.0079,
  title  = {Depleted pyrochlore antiferromagnets},
  author = {Christopher L. Henley},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0809.0079},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

6pp IOP latex, 1 figure; Proc. "Highly Frustrated Magnetism 2008", Sept 2008, Braunschweig

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