Frustrated spin model as a hard-sphere liquid
Statistical Mechanics
2009-11-07 v1 Materials Science
Abstract
We show that one-dimensional topological objects (kinks) are natural degrees of freedom for an antiferromagnetic Ising model on a triangular lattice. Its ground states and the coexistence of spin ordering with an extensive zero-temperature entropy can be easily understood in terms of kinks forming a hard-sphere liquid. Using this picture we explain effects of quantum spin dynamics on that frustrated model, which we also study numerically.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0210711,
title = {Frustrated spin model as a hard-sphere liquid},
author = {Maxim Mostovoy and Nikolai Prokof'ev and Daniel Khomskii and Jasper Knoester},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0210711},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
5 pages, 3 figures