Field induced ordering in highly frustrated antiferromagnets
Strongly Correlated Electrons
2007-05-23 v2 Statistical Mechanics
Abstract
We predict that an external field can induce a spin order in highly frustrated classical Heisenberg magnets. We find analytically stabilization of collinear states by thermal fluctuations at a one-third of the saturation field for kagome and garnet lattices and at a half of the saturation field for pyrochlore and frustrated square lattices. This effect is studied numerically for the frustrated square-lattice antiferromagnet by Monte Carlo simulations for classical spins and by exact diagonalization for . The field induced collinear states have a spin gap and produce magnetization plateaus.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0003343,
title = {Field induced ordering in highly frustrated antiferromagnets},
author = {M. E. Zhitomirsky and A. Honecker and O. A. Petrenko},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0003343},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
4 pages, new analytical proof the order by disorder by thermal fluctuations is added