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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 S=1/2S=1/2. 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