Frustrated Spin Model as a Hard-Sphere Liquid

Authors

M Mostovoy
D Khomskii
J Knoester
Nikolai Prokof'ev, University of Massachusetts - AmherstFollow

Publication Date

2003

Journal or Book Title

Physics Review Letters

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 easily be 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.

Comments

This is the pre-published version harvested from ArXiv. The published version is located at http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v90/i14/e147203

Volume

90

Issue

14

Recommended Citation

Mostovoy, M; Khomskii, D; Knoester, J; and Prokof'ev, Nikolai, "Frustrated Spin Model as a Hard-Sphere Liquid" (2003). Physics Review Letters. 1182.
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