Ground-State Phase Diagram of Frustrated Anisotropic Quantum Spin Chains
Statistical Mechanics
2009-11-07 v1
Abstract
Recent studies on the frustrated quantum spin chains with easy-plane anisotropy are reviewed. We are particularly interested in novel "chiral" phases characterized by the spontaneous breaking of the parity symmetry. The ground-state phase diagrams of the chains are discussed.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0204022,
title = {Ground-State Phase Diagram of Frustrated Anisotropic Quantum Spin Chains},
author = {T. Hikihara and M. Kaburagi and H. Kawamura},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0204022},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
6 pages (ptptex.sty), 3 figures, to appear in Prog. Theor. Phys. Suppl. (Proc. of the 16th Nishinomiya-Yukawa Symposium and YITP International Workshop, Nov. 2001)