Monte Carlo Study of the Anisotropic Heisenberg Antiferromagnet on the Triangular Lattice
Statistical Mechanics
2009-10-31 v1
Abstract
We report a Monte Carlo study of the classical antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model with easy axis anisotropy on the triangular lattice. Both the free energy cost for long wavelength spin waves as well as for the formation of free vortices are obtained from the spin stiffness and vorticity modulus respectively. Evidence for two distinct Kosterlitz-Thouless types of defect-mediated phase transitions at finite temperatures is presented.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9911403,
title = {Monte Carlo Study of the Anisotropic Heisenberg Antiferromagnet on the Triangular Lattice},
author = {W. Stephan and B. W. Southern},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9911403},
year = {2009}
}
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8 pages, 10 figures