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Real-space perturbation theory for frustrated magnets: application to magnetization plateaus

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2015-03-23 v1

Abstract

We present a unified approach to the problem of degeneracy lifting in geometrically frustrated magnets with and without an external field. The method treats fluctuations around a classical spin configuration in terms of a real-space perturbation expansion. We calculate two lowest-order contributions for the Heisenberg spin Hamiltonian and use them to study the magnetization processes of spin-SS triangular and kagom\'e antiferromagnets.

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@article{arxiv.1412.7304,
  title  = {Real-space perturbation theory for frustrated magnets: application to magnetization plateaus},
  author = {M. E. Zhitomirsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.7304},
  year   = {2015}
}

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8 pages, 3 figures