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Field-induced chiral phase in isotropic frustrated spin chains

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2008-04-22 v1 Other Condensed Matter

Abstract

It is shown that an external magnetic field applied to a spin-S isotropic zigzag chain induces a phase with spontaneously broken parity, characterized by long range ordering of vector chirality. This is in contrast to the two-component Luttinger liquid scenario proposed in the literature. Relevance to real materials is discussed.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0502502,
  title  = {Field-induced chiral phase in isotropic frustrated spin chains},
  author = {Alexei Kolezhuk and Temo Vekua},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0502502},
  year   = {2008}
}

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