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Magnetization Plateaux in Bethe Ansatz Solvable Spin-S Ladders

Statistical Mechanics 2009-11-10 v1

Abstract

We examine the properties of the Bethe Ansatz solvable two- and three-leg spin-SS ladders. These models include Heisenberg rung interactions of arbitrary strength and thus capture the physics of the spin-SS Heisenberg ladders for strong rung coupling. The discrete values derived for the magnetization plateaux are seen to fit with the general prediction based on the Lieb-Schultz- Mattis theorem. We examine the magnetic phase diagram of the spin-1 ladder in detail and find an extended magnetization plateau at the fractional value <M>=1/2<M > = {1/2} in agreement with the experimental observation for the spin-1 ladder compound BIP-TENO.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0302135,
  title  = {Magnetization Plateaux in Bethe Ansatz Solvable Spin-S Ladders},
  author = {M. Maslen and M. T. Batchelor and J. de Gier},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0302135},
  year   = {2009}
}

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11 pages, 1 figure

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