Theory of the surface spin-flop transition in antiferromagnetic spin chains

Journal of Physics Condensed Matter

Volumn 9, Issue 13, 1997, Pages

  Chung, S G ^a  

^a WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFERROMAGNETISM; CALCULATIONS; CHROMIUM; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); IRON; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC PERMEABILITY; METALLIC SUPERLATTICES; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

ANTIFERROMAGNETIC SPIN CHAIN; BULK SPIN FLOP; SURFACE SPIN FLOP; TRANSFER MATRIX METHOD;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

EID: 0005337267     PISSN: 09538984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/9/13/003     Document Type: Article

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14. We note that the transverse magnetization is strictly zero for all the cases considered. This is in contradiction to the results of [6], in which a non-zero transverse magnetization was reported. It appears that the non-zero transverse magnetization is due to the authors having overlooked the ground-state degeneracy, which was not properly handled by the self-consistent mean-field method.